Most modern computers no longer come with optical disc readers like CD or DVD drives, but the market for external CD/DVD drives is still going strong.

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Every household has one drawer nobody wants to open. It’s full of cables that match nothing, a phone charger for a handset you haven’t owned in a quarter century, and somewhere near the bottom, a ...

Reimagining outdated technology into something new can ignite a fascinating journey. The “CD-ROM PLAYER 01” by das_POD takes this concept to heart, turning used computer CD-ROM drives into robust DIY ...

Я продолжаю освещать работу с USB на Raspberry Pi Pico. В текущей статье хочу привести пример, как можно использовать Raspberry Pi Pico в качестве ...

CD-ROM emulation on the PicoGUS emulates a Panasonic/MKE interface and drive and supports CD images in ISO or BIN/CUE stored on a USB drive plugged into the USB port on the PicoGUS. CD-ROM emulation ...

As we celebrate Xbox's 25th anniversary this year, we've been looking into the archives and reminded ourselves of Soundtrack 1: The Definitive Xbox Compilation - a CD that featured the likes of The ...

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There was once a time when video game horror, long before livestreaming and digital storefronts, physically lived in your house. Lurking inside plastic jewel cases or large cardboard boxes, all ...

The Incus team has just announced the release of version 6.16 of its container & virtual machine manager, a community-driven fork of LXD, created after Canonical changed LXD’s governance and moved it ...

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 ...

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 ...