A virtual CD-ROM emulator works by allowing you to copy and run an image of a CD on your computer. The process serves as an alternative to placing a disc in your computer each time you want to use it, ...

Those old CD games that have been sitting on your shelf for eternity? Linux can run them.

You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar approach to consoles. Go to a physical store, get a disc, then pop it into ...

Retro gaming has made a comeback with systems like the NES Classic, but none of them will do you any good if you have a stockpile of game CDs from yesteryear that you want to play. What might, however ...

Local computer shows are usually havens for hardware hackers looking for bargain basement equipment, but at the show I attended last week, some of the biggest crowds were around tables piled high with ...

This article describes how to set up a virtual CD-ROM jukebox (VCDJ) using Samba and Linux. A VCDJ is a network server that provides access to the contents of a large number of CD-ROM disks, without ...

1993: Broderbund Software releases Myst, a game for the Macintosh computer that becomes a record-setting best-seller and the killer app that sparks sales of CD-ROM drives. Brothers Rand and Robyn ...

The ScummVM community has just made the early CD-ROM gaming era more accessible. For five years, multiple people have worked on making Macromedia Director games playable on modern hardware, and today, ...

In another case of digital rights management doing harm to paying customers, a slew of CD-ROM games are being rendered inoperable by a security update in Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. As ...

1993: Broderbund Software releases Myst, a game for the Macintosh computer that becomes a record-setting best-seller and the killer app that sparks sales of CD-ROM drives. Brothers Rand and Robyn ...