Well, there's a decent chance someone already uploaded it to archive.org
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Meanwhile I still have a couple disc drives and the one that came with my laptop is still with me but has been replaced by a caddy to access my data from the old hard drive alongside my smol new SSD.
And I have so many discs too...
I ripped them 10 years ago. But prefer cracks; less hassle.
Even back when my PC still had a disc drive, even compatibility mode wouldn't let it function
Windows killed a lot of disc drives around win10. I was convinced my laptop one just died.
Oh but look, running EndeavourOS and what's this? Works just fine.
CDs and movies no problem. Games probably too, with a little Wine/Bottles magic!
Mine always seemed to work fine, still does actually! Although I don't tend to use it much.
The last thing I used it for was the soundtrack for Die Hard I got for a £1 at a boot sale on a complete whim... only to later realize it was actually the soundtrack for the sequel hahahaha
I've got an optical drive mainly because of the audio CDs I buy. Back in the time when games on CD/DVD were a thing, I was too poor to afford one.
I got an unopened box with a USB DVD/Blue ray player. I am good.
I gutted my old defunct laptop to get its CD Drive then bought a cheap convertor on aliexpress. Now it connects to my pc via USB.
You coulda slapped Linux on that bad boy and gotten a few more years of life out of it
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Anyway unless it's something from the 90s, the DRM is one or all of those:
- Hardcoded for windows XP and refuse to run on anything else
- Must connect to an activation server that was turned off two decades ago
- Requires the installation of a rootkit
I tried this the other day only to realize I don't have a drive.
Time to grab a USB powered dvd drive? I don't have a 5.25, but we've got a 3.5 and a zip disk what run off USB that hold our access to our old disk troves. I should probably move them all to a single thumb drive one of these days.
I bought this back in in COVID times as I saw the writing on the wall for physical media, and I could sneak it past the ATO as a WFH deduction: https://www.pccasegear.com/products/48810/pioneer-bdrxs07tuhd-slot-load-4k-external-blu-ray-writer
Probably the best investment I could have made in terms of continuing to be able to use the media I’ve purchased.
My first CD-ROM game: Lands of lore
We had to switch cds and 2x was painfully slow but having games this deep without having to install for hours with 200 💾 was revolutionary.
Some of my old game CDs. I think I have a lot more in my storage locker.
Heart of Darkness CD from a Kellogg's cerial box.
PC-Peli Demo CD which contains Counter-Strike 1.0 and a lot of different stuff like game demos, patches, software, virus software, different .zip programs, drivers and graphics software. I cant find any information about the publisher. I think it's Pelit lehti, but I can be wrong here.
And lastly some PC World CD containing game demos, screensavers, and various other stuff.
