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Everything fails eventually, but moving parts fail fastest of all– and optical drives seemingly more than others, at least in our experience. Even when they work, vintage drives often have trouble ...

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Retro game enthusiasts may already be acquainted with Analogue, a company that designs and manufactures updated versions of classic consoles that can play original games but also be hooked up to ...

Sonic 3 features a lot of characters. We're talking major parts for Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Tom, Maddie, and Agent Stone; the introduction of Keanu Reeves' Shadow and Krysten Ritter's Director ...

These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a desktop or laptop. This has been the ...

Summer Games Done Quick, the week-long charity speedrun event, is set to kick off on June 30 and features a whole bunch of extremely skillful players blasting through a huge number of games. In honor ...

In 1994, multimedia discs—from encyclopedias to magazines—flooded the market, and felt like the future. It was fun while it lasted. At the time, it was the CD-ROM that had captured the imagination of ...

I have a single hard drive set up on IDE 0:0 and an ATAPI CD-ROM set up on IDE 0:1 as type 86BOX CD-ROM 1.00. MS-DOS identifies that a CD-ROM is installed, but I am unable to mount a CD. The CD-ROM ...

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GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Sonic CD was a daring and unique take on Sega's most storied series.

ABSTRACT: The current study attempts to investigate the differences in reading comprehension as a function of the text’s genre in a computer-assisted environment vs. print. For this purpose, data were ...