#CD-ROMs

[digitalfossils]

[maxillis]

just got to wednesday in my newest disco elysium run and got kim's "i'm sorry, harry. i'm so sorry" line and i'm gonna be real i forgot he said that. i forgot he sat with you for an hour and a half waiting for you to accept the inevitably true fact that you had a messy, loud suicide run across the bay and crashed your car into the ice where you will never, ever be able to retrieve it. and you don't have your badge. or your gun. and all you could think to do while you waited for the tide to go out was whistle. and he whistled with you. and when you realized what you did, and you were overcome with the enormity of your fuck-ups, he told you he was sorry. sorry that you have nothing else anymore but this job and this case, sorry that your décomptage (very understandably) left you deserted while you were spinning around in crash-out paradise, sorry that you didn't want to be this kind of animal anymore, sorry that you thought jumping the water lock bridge was the logical thing to do in that moment. as much as kim had been mostly aware of harry's blackout and everything that implied, don't tell me that seeing the sunken MC didn't immediately give him a sudden and whole vision that harry had also been wronged and put at the impossible end of a rope lit on fire and never fully extinguished. and harry let himself burn all the way down. the man thinks he's the sunset but he's the dying embers of an arsony charge, and kim is there soon enough to feel the warmth but too late to deny that the house isn't anything anymore but a pile of charred planks and nails. and he sees the human pieces left in the wreckage. and kim calls him harry instead of detective.

[foone]

Dear (do you have a title?) Foone,

how small can a cd be?

Yours sincerely,

Mx Rev

good question. physically? the business-card CDs are probably as small as they can get. They have some interesting geometry going on, as the discs are actually circular, as far as the drive cares. See they're shaped like this:

but the whole thing isn't usable! The drive only reads this part:

which is still circular.

You could set up the drive's TOC so that it only has a minimum of 1 track and have it end after only X seconds, where X is like... 1 or 2, and then shave the drive down more and more to the minimum readable area.

But data-size wise, CD-ROMs use a 2048 byte sector, so that'd be your minimum size: 2 kilobytes.

Technically there are some weird CD-ROMs that aren't standard compliant that are used on some HP or Sun systems that use 512-byte sectors, so if you could make one of those you could limit it to half a kilobyte. I don't know if any CD burning software can make those, though.

[blockygraphics]

Slides advertising the Nautilus CD-ROM magazine of the 1990s, from its 1992 Multimedia Madness edition. Info:

Metatec, a manufacturer of CD-ROM disks, started a CD-ROM magazine for the Macintosh called Nautilus in 1990 and added a Windows edition in 1991; the company says [ed. note: as of 1995] it has 11,000 subscribers.

[melisssg99]

It's so annoying to go buy older games and dvd, CD-ROMs and seeing how often people completely scratched up their stuff.

How did you manage to do that?!

Are you some wild animal?!

Haven't you been told as a child to take care of your stuff?

I was told by my older brother to basically take care of my CD-ROMs like they're vinyls once!

Literally one warning about how I could ruin my favourite games and there were never any scratches found on our games.

It's literally not that hard to be careful with that stuff🥲

[skyburger]

hi all, i have both lucky star okiraku boxes and you may have seen me post scans of the covers of the booklets + CDs on here :D well today i finally tesed out those CD-ROMs, and they work on windows 10! they're on archive.org-- here is konata's, and here is kagami's! have fun! (p.s. the image in this post is one of the included wallpapers!)

[clipitcutout]

Y2k cute CD roms pngs!

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[never-obsolete]

The Way Things Work (1994) Compact Disc Player

[compactdiscinteractive]

P.A.W.S.: Personal Automated Wagging System (Domestic Funk/Digital Garden/Organa, Mac/Windows/CD-i, 1995/1998)

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[y2kgr4ph1cs]

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[infinitebrians]

the porygon2 installation process

[digitalfossils]

Fisher Car Hi Fi Katalog (1986)

[maxillis]

i haven't made a personal post in like a year or something and i haven't even really been here the past few months in general but man leaving my job and starting to prioritize what i want for myself has made me shed anxieties that i didn't even know i was hanging onto over the course of the past 3 years. i was waking up feeling like there was no point to anything and i was losing my grip on life, like time kept passing and i wasn't even going along with it, miserable to the point where i knew i wasn't acting like Me but i no longer had any energy to dedicate to reclaiming myself.

and i really did learn a lot about discernment from that situation, because i did not even begin to suspect that someone i considered a very close family friend would be the one who would essentially fuck me over without a single explanation or attempt at communicating with me in any sort of humane way. like when your mother was dying i helped you hold yourself down and did everything i could to make sure you were good. now that the tables turned and my mother has colon cancer and she's doing chemo you couldn't spend a second to act like you gave a fuck about it at all. and what's worse is that she was my boss this whole time so of course i'll sound like i'm the crazy one, or i'm the one who was fucking up the workplace, but 1) i wasn't the one bringing in my issues and 2) you can't threaten my job and withhold yourself as a reference without giving me an avenue to improve whatever it was i was falling short on (i was falling short on being in a bubbly and excited mood every single day. my co-assistant was not subject to the same expectations. lmao!) and it feels so funny and coincidental that all my work, things i tangibly did, things i kept track of, even my things i'd keep under my desk, all went mysteriously missing. i worked my ass off through the worst news i've ever gotten and she lost every single bit of my progress. and then would get angry with me because "i didn't do it" forgetting the first TWO times i gave her what she needed because she'd almost immediately lose the first iteration. i wrote her reminders and left so many notes and still everything was My fault.

i saw some post on twitter like "you think they're your real friend? lose a parent and see if they're still your friend" and you know what. they're completely right. you could really go out of your way to ride for someone and yet given the opportunity, they'd rather make sure they leave you all the way behind in the same situation. what a shit person to have let in my life.

but over the weekend i was able to think even more about my relationships that i feel valued by, especially some newer friends i've made who chose to hold ME down this time. people who stay with you 2 hours after the last bart leaves for the night because they just want more time with you. you give them the aux and they play your favorite songs. they share whatever they've got with you. they drove my car home the day i worked 12 straight hours because i didn't feel safe driving myself. and it's funny because my boss discouraged me from befriending this person, always had something judgemental to say, always made me feel othered because i was getting to know them. he told me this past friday, "it's weird. she's really treating you like an ex."

but i got my happy ending in quitting my fucking job and graduating from being just someone's coworker to full-on "nah i Care care about you now" friendship. i even have a potential job prospect in the next few weeks :) i escaped that job and that woman with my life and it just helped me be so grateful for the reliable and good things i have going on for me. the happiness i've been able to feel these past couple of weeks has been palpable

[semiconductorwave]

[blu3b3rryj4mp1r3]

I feel like tumblr needs to see this:

(From the cd-rom game Mysteriet på Greveholm - 1997, which I've been trying and failing to get to run on my windows 10 computer lol)

[90s-2000s-barbie]