PCWorld demonstrates how Windows 11 users can run classic PC games from the 80s and 90s using DOSBox, a free emulator that simulates MS-DOS environments. DOSBox supports vintage titles like ...

As we celebrate Xbox's 25th anniversary this year, we've been looking into the archives and reminded ourselves of Soundtrack 1: The Definitive Xbox Compilation - a CD that featured the likes of The ...

PicoIDE is an open-source hardware IDE/ATAPI drive emulator based on a Raspberry Pi RP2350 board and designed to replace hard drives and CD-ROM drives in vintage computers with microSD card storage.

The Eversolo PLAY CD Edition costs €799, adding a Hitachi CD drive to the standard €699 model. That puts even the base PLAY at €100 more than WiiM’s AMP Ultra (€599). After six weeks of side-by-side ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. The official product page for Cooler Master's new MasterBox CM695 mid-tower case says it features a "classic odd design" because it includes a 5.25-inch ...

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 ...

What do you get when you combine an ESP32, a 16-bit DAC, an antique VFD, and an IDE CD-ROM drive? Not much, unless you put in the work, which [Akasaka Ryuunosuke] did to create ESPer-CDP, a modern ...

A CD-ROM drive can be used as a stand-alone unit for playing digital audio CDs without interfacing with a computer. The stereo output of CD player available at the audio jack can be amplified using ...

I installed the plexmanager software that came with my 8/4/32 plextor drive, mostly to use the audiocapture program to rip some .wavs. After rebooting, I'm having trouble with both the plextor and my ...