I’ve never ripped CDs or DVDs before for any reason and am curious how this works since I have some stuff I wanna see about backing up but am nervous about ruining the disc. I’ve tried looking this up, but every time I do, I obviously am searching for the wrong thing because I have never found the info I’m looking for.
Holy shit, a 2x drive. I forgot that once was a cutting edge thing.
How else were ya gonna play 7th Guest? With a 1x?!? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(this comment brought to you by 2x gang)
We had a 1x but it was too slow for the new game we bought, Phantasmagoria. Instead of buying a new drive, my father picked up this terrible software that would write portions of the data to the hard drive when the game bogged down. It kind of worked but only after you went through it once, so whoever played the game after you got a smoother experience.
That’s really cool! It’s a good example of what i like to think of as “transitional tech”–stuff that did the job, but as tech continued to evolve their usefulness phased out.
Or Wing Commander III, with its ludicrous 4 CD’s. 😱
Anyone remember the Kenwood TrueX drives? I was so in love with mine for a while, but it wasn’t always supported.