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That's my experience as well. I recently imaged - a collection of CD-Roms attached to a computer magazine, 1999-2001 - my own collection of stuff downloaded o
by gattilorenz 3y ago
That's my experience as well. I recently imaged
- a collection of CD-Roms attached to a computer magazine, 1999-2001
- my own collection of stuff downloaded or backed up around 2003-2004; most of it on Verbatim DVDs, but some on CD-R or CD-RW (likely also from Verbatim)
I had very few read errors, and it was impressive especially considering it's more than 50 CDs and that I never payed too much attention to how they were stored. Most of the computer magazine CDs were stored directly in a "cardboard sleeve", not even one of those plastic/paper ones...
- zozbot234 3y ago> a collection of CD-Roms attached to a computer magazine, 1999-2001 Please upload these disc images to Internet Archive if not included already, so that they can be preserved for the future. Downloads which used to be publicly available might be worthwhile too, but it could be more of a challenge to sort these out.
- gattilorenz 3y agoThat’s exactly why I imaged those in the first place :) Well, that, and to relive those years, find the games included in those magazines and finally play them on a Voodoo 2 instead of a poor S3 Virge…
- qingcharles 3y agoThank you for doing this. Someone had uploaded a cover CD from 1994 recently and I was able to download my first piece of commercial software :)
- ksec 3y ago>- a collection of CD-Roms attached to a computer magazine, 1999-2001 I still have lots of those as well from the early 90s! Mostly PC Gamer ( UK ) and some other computer magazine. I need to find a weekend and archive those. But a little sad as more than half of my CD-Rs have problems. May be I need to get a new external DVD reader just to test it out again see so many people have no problems with their CDs.
- gattilorenz 3y agoYes, try using a more recent drive. Especially laptop drives are particularly prone to issues, in my experience.