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How to play old CD-ROM games on Windows again

You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar ...
EdTech

CD-ROM Databases Bridged the Gap Between Library Card Catalogs and the Internet

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. For students attending a university in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the experience was vastly different ...
PC Magazine

CD-ROM drives

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.
Ars Technica

It’s now possible to play early ’90s CD-ROM games via ScummVM

The ScummVM community has just made the early CD-ROM gaming era more accessible. For five years, multiple people have worked on making Macromedia Director games playable on modern hardware, and today, ...
PC Magazine

CD-ROM audio cable

A cable used to send audio CD sound to the computer's sound card. When playing audio CDs, CD-ROM drives output analog sound to both a headphone jack and external connector just like a CD player. This ...
Fonds

CD-ROM : qu'est-ce que c'est

Support de stockage non réinscriptible sur lequel sont enregistrés des fichiers informatiques, des séquences sonores, voire même des séquences vidéo. Les informations sont enregistrées sous forme ...
Techno-Science.net

CD-ROM - Définition

Inventé par Philips en 1979, il sera lancé pour l'audio en 1982 par Philips et Sony. En 1984, les spécifications du Compact Disc ont été étendues (avec l'édition du Yellow Book) afin de lui permettre ...