It was fun while it lasted. 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 ...

Basics Virtual CD-ROM emulators function by being able to read the image file of a CD. An image file is a byte-for-byte copy of a disc's information, according to FILExt. The software can copy the ...

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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.

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.

It’s something [Daniel1111] has done with his Arduino CD player, which uses the little microcontroller board to control a CD-ROM drive via its IDE bus.

2. Place the setup disc in your optical drive and restart your computer. Wait for the “Press any key to boot from CD or DVD” message and press any key when prompted. 3. Select a language, time ...

A mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD in there ...