The Hidden Empire, the 1995 LucasArts sequel that pushed Star Wars deeper into CD-ROM spectacle and FMV ambition.

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 ...

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 ...

Allows you to run original Windows CD-ROM games in RetroBat without relying on no-CD patches. While no-CD patches exist (often of unclear legality or shady origin), the goal of this plugin is to avoid ...

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These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a desktop or laptop. This has been the ...

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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 ...

In the innocent days of the early 90s the future of personal computing still seemed to be wide open, with pundits making various statements regarding tis potential trajectories. To many, the internet ...

I recently finished Harry McCracken’s excellent article about the CD-ROM’s rise in the mid-1990s, and it made me realize that I had never really explored Apple’s early CD hardware. Depending on how ...

At the time, it was the CD-ROM that had captured the imagination of consumers and the entire publishing industry. The high-capacity optical discs enabled mass distribution of multimedia for the first ...

The Apple SuperDrive is a beautifully designed CD drive for anyone who still needs an optical drive. With Apple’s design language and a premium aluminum enclosure, the SuperDrive is a great option for ...