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 ...

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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Compact discs (or CD-ROMs) have gone the way of vinyl records, 8-track and cassette tapes.

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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, ...

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