Why Did Optical Disc Drives Lose the Market at the Peak of Their Technology? The Secret Development History and Rise and Fall of ODDs, Where Japanese Manufactur…

FM TOWNS, Taiyo Yuden, Pioneer, Plextor, Sanyo Electric. And MediaTek. Deciphering the rise and fall of the PC industry ...

SCSI was destroyed by black terminators, and IDE won with 40 pins—The untold development stories of PC storage interfaces

Technical prowess alone is not enough to win. The history of the rise and fall of engineers and manufacturers etched into ...

Steam Frame: Valve adds support for optical drives

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

14 Forgotten Technologies That Tried To Replace The Floppy Disk

Antiquated disk media is rarer than ever, but floppy disks were once all the rage. These would-be floppy stand-ins, however, ...
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Wine 11.20 Released With CD-ROM Support Change

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Need for Speed: Underground 2 on Mac — native Apple Silicon port, no Wine

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 ...