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A Steam user tried unsuccessfully to watch DVDs on a VR headset and install an old racing game from disc. Valve quickly ...

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Play Need for Speed: Underground 2 (NFSU2, 2004) natively on Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and later): no Wine, no CrossOver, no emulator, no virtual machine. NFSU2Recomp is a static recompiler and runtime ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Gone are those days when you would go through your shelf to find your favorite movie's cover on a DVD case, pop the disc into a DVD player, ...

Arol is a tech journalist who currently works as a contributor at How-To Geek since 2022. He first began writing online for the short-lived portal of Spanish-language gaming forum Emudesc in 2013.

CD-ROM emulation on the PicoGUS emulates a Panasonic/MKE interface and drive and supports CD images in ISO or BIN/CUE stored on a USB drive plugged into the USB port on the PicoGUS. CD-ROM emulation ...

Seeing new Linux patches for benefiting Sega Dreamcast devices wasn't on my bingo card for 2026. A patch series was sent out today for fixing the Linux kernel's GD-ROM driver for accessing media using ...

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 ...