A cable used to send audio CD sound to the computer's sound card. When playing audio CDs, CD-ROM drives output analog sound to both a headphone jack and external connector just like a CD player. This ...

At the turn of the century, it was hard to find gamers—or gaming journalists, for that matter—who didn’t despise SecuRom and SafeDisc digital rights management copy protection on some of the top ...

Why it matters: Myst is arguably one of the most influential PC games in history. For nearly a decade, it held the record as the best-selling computer game of all time, and rightfully so. The title ...

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.

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.

The X-Men: Evolution Mini-CD PC games were given free with a Kid's Meal at Burger King some time in late 2001. There were eight editions of the game (I played the Quicksilver and Wolverine editions), ...

Since a prototype of the fabled, unreleased SNES-CD (aka the “Nintendo PlayStation”) was first found and disassembled last year, we’ve learned enough about this one-of-a-kind piece of hardware to ...

Announced at the Future Games Show, The 7th Guest Remake is the work of Vertigo Games and Exkee, the former of whom worked on ...

This page contains a list of cheats, codes, Easter eggs, tips, and other secrets for Tamagotchi CD-ROM for PC. If you've discovered a cheat you'd like to add to the page, or have a correction, please ...

On October 1, 1982, Sony ignited a digital audio revolution with the release of the world’s first commercial compact disc player, the CDP-101 (above), in Japan. It signaled the dawn of a new audio ...

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 ...