It’s always a gamble whether gifts or greeting cards will be on time for the holidays. Pushing off that visit to the post ...

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 ...

These days, game consoles are barely disguised computers that play mostly the same games you can get on your PC at home. Back in the 1990s, though, the game console was still a fresh and changing ...

Although the company eventually released a PC with a CD-ROM drive in 1991, the Commodore 64’s heyday was long before CD-ROMs became popular. But that didn’t stop Rainbow Arts from releasing a ...

Loading compact disc into the DVD CD Player. Male hand loads CD into a CD player tray close-up. Music, movies, or data recorded on a laser optical information storage medium. Loading Compact Disc hand ...

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 ...

Frontiers Of The Mind is cursed, by which I mean that 7-Zip turned red while I was extracting the file. What unsightly encounter deep within the bowels of my download file caused this temporary ...

When Margaretta McKenna upgrades her computer, her Rosetta Stone CD-ROM stops working. Can she upgrade to the new online version for free? Q: I purchased the Rosetta Stone Italian program many years ...

Rhenn is a Manila-based content writer with a love for all things geek and pop culture, and science and technology. He graduated BA Journalism degree as a Cum Laude, and has since then pursued making ...

CD-ROM games (Myst, etc.) do work when loaded as disk images, but it's somewhat awkward to have to download them, drag them in, and do a restart (until #49 is fixed anyway). Ideally there should be a ...

I wrote this C++ project in 2012 with Visual Studio to have a ton of DVDs automatically copied to a network storage. I did some small updates in 2022 to make the old code compile with JetBrains CLion.