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 ...

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, ...

In another case of digital rights management doing harm to paying customers, a slew of CD-ROM games are being rendered inoperable by a security update in Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. As ...

I can’t remember the last time I played music on a spinning compact disc. It’s been the better part of 20 years since I spent countless hours ripping CDs into a bloated MP3 collection, trying to call ...

After a version of Windows is released, over time bugs are found or new enhancements are added by Microsoft. In order to fix these bugs and add these new enhancements, Microsoft will occassionally ...

Replay: The battlefields of the audio visual world are littered with the corpses of dead formats, none more so than the fight to put moving images on to discs. With the exception of LaserDisc, none of ...

At one time, Floppy drives, CDs, and DVDs used to be a primary source of external storage for many before USB storage devices took over. Nowadays, many devices do not even come with a built-in CD, DVD ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This confidential CD-ROM is the ...

Sometimes in the never-ending progression of technology, people take wrong turns. They pursue dead-ends they believe represent a bright future, often in spite of obvious indications to the contrary.