Through the looking glass: The compact disc's 43-year journey, from technical experiment to a worldwide standard, tells the story of how global collaboration and bold engineering can reshape entire ...

On the PCjs wiki, the instructions in the section Using a Local Web Server: Accessing Disk Images Locally say to run these commands: git clone https://github.com ...

Everything fails eventually, but moving parts fail fastest of all– and optical drives seemingly more than others, at least in our experience. Even when they work, vintage drives often have trouble ...

I have a PicoGUS 2.0 which works great for sound in GUS/SoundBlaster/Adlib mode. I wanted to try out the CD Rom emulation in v3.0.0/3.1.0 on my 486 as while it does have a standard CD-ROM drive in it, ...

Perhaps it's a trick of memory, but it seems like old media formats simply evaporate once we move on to the next big thing. The recording industry sold 4.4 billion dollars worth of 8-track tapes in ...

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ROME, N.Y. -- Today marks National CD Player Day, and an interesting fact is that the inventor of CD-ROM technology was from Rome. John Dove was born on June 4, 1924, in North Carolina. After serving ...

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

This is weird. Is my cd-rom bad?<BR>KT-7 with the 7N bios and it hangs on bootups when detecting ide drives.<BR>The screen just says "detecting ide drives," or something like that.<BR>If I open the cd ...

IE only audio discs, but yea, just plug in headphones and go. I have to use it as Im too lazy to plug the audio out cable from my drive to the soundcard ...