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 ...

A kit to build self-booting ISOs for the FM Towns. This tool can be used to take a set of files (among which must include IO.SYS) and produce from them an ISO bootable on the FM Towns/FM Towns Marty, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The PS2 is a universally beloved console and happens to hold one of the most storied histories of any console ever made. A lot of that history is common knowledge, with many people knowing that the ...

In 1994, multimedia discs—from encyclopedias to magazines—flooded the market, and felt like the future. It was fun while it lasted. At the time, it was the CD-ROM that had captured the imagination of ...

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This is a port of the Commodore C64 Kernal version 3 and BASIC version 2 to the ASM6502 assembler. It can also be built with the not yet released VASM by Fred N. van ...

The history respecters at the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant/entertainment chain still use floppy disks to control their animatronic rodent-bots — and they wouldn’t have it any other way, apparently. As ...