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

Lets say I power up my computer. When everything is loaded, I go to start, programs, Windows Explorer. The CD-ROM light will come on, and then it sounds like a jet-engine taking off. When it ...

Sometimes, when I put a cd into my cd-rom, it starts going lightspeed, and makes a rattling sound. I believe the rattling sound is coming from the cd-rom drive screws vibrating on the bay holes. How ...

A reader, David, asks about viewing an old CD-ROM: “Back in 1995, my art director partner and I created a CD-ROM as an agency anniversary gift for our boss. … A number of years later, I tried to look ...

Q. Jim, I cannot get my CD-ROM drive to open the tray to put a CD in it. Can you tell me what to do? Jeffrey Willimas@yahoo.com A. You are a man of few words, Mr. W., but I’ll need more than a few to ...

This all started as I came to realize that my reliable and still functioning G&D Transforms CD transport is about 10 years old, and on its second laser diode. My time is numbered here, and I need to ...

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 ...

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 ...