• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’ve got DVD-ROM drives in my desktop PC and my old laptop that I use for playing videos while I exercise and a USB Blu-Ray drive that I can use in anything else. You’ll get my disc caddies when you pry them from my cold dead hands.

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    My ancient macbook has a cd drive, but it stopped recognizing the drive years ago and of course there’s no physical eject button. It Just Works!

  • Aceticon@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    A USB DVD Reader/Writer costs 15 bucks. (I’m too used feel like that meme, and then at some point I needed to find a way to get a Mini-PC to read CDs, and as it turns out it’s quite simple - I reckon it was more a case of “can’t be arsed to do it” than a case of “can’t do it”).

    • NaoPb@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I wonder how long that price will last. We might be living in just the right time to buy a boatload of optical drives.

  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    You couldn’t play it anyway. It has SecuROM as a copy protection and that is basically a rootkit that is not allowed to run on Windows Vista and above.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      Run it in a VM, then get the NoCD from gamecopyworld?

      (Not sure if that’s an option for securom)

      • boonhet@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        Securom has been cracked long ago yeah. I believe it was SafeDisc or StarForce that made things hella weird in a cracked game, but that was bypassed by mounting the CD back then and now I think the cracks work too

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      No lie, a large amount of my digital media was pulled from physical disks.

      I set up a system with a ton of space and two optical drives and just cycled through, disk after disk, pulling the content off. Once I had it, I ran it through handbrake and converted it to H.264 (AVC/AAC), and then put all the disks away and forgot about them.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I technically have a DVD drive/burner still. It’s just not in the computer because the case didn’t have any drive bays for it and I couldn’t find one I could afford that had even one when I built this machine. I could just run it outside the case but… Nah.

  • dumbass@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    3 months ago

    If you out the CD in the microwave for 15 seconds you can shrink it down to the size of a SD card, the SD card slot will read it.

  • umbraroze@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Pro tip: if you have a physical copy of a game and it’s also available on Steam, try registering the CD key. (Obviously doesn’t work if the game doesn’t have a CD key. Or if the publisher is a dick. looking at you, EA)

    • PancakeBrock@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I never did it on steam but years back I contacted origin support and they let me register all my old ea games keys and still have them on the ea app. Not great but I thought it was cool.

      They let me do all of them except battlefield Vietnam. They said they didn’t have that one available to download at the time.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I have an external DVD-RW on a shelf just in case. Every once in a while I need to bring it out and I wonder if a giant boulder is going to start rolling at me when I grab it.

    • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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      3 months ago

      I just bought an external cd/dvd drive so I can convert my DVD library into a digital one for convenience and to preserve the dvds longer.

      I’m having some issues with the speed of conversion, but my biggest problem is quickly becoming storage space.

      Also, I dug up some of my old games like Caesar III and installed a no-CD “patch”.

      Good times.

      There’s an adapter or replacement for everything

    • KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      I actually have a SATA cable and power plug discreetly tucked in a spot in my PC case and have just taken the side off and plugged in a drive on occasion. It’s normal purpose is troubleshooting other hard drives, but it works for that too