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Fun fact: the original monkey island CD was a music CD with the soundtrack, too. This is possible because music is written to a cd outside-in and date inside-ou
by kilian 14y ago
Fun fact: the original monkey island CD was a music CD with the soundtrack, too. This is possible because music is written to a cd outside-in and date inside-out (or visa versa, I forget). This blew my mind as a kid, and you could even see the physical distinction on the cd between the two data streams as well.
- jimgumbley 14y agoI believe the data was in the pregap and other than that it was just a normal CD. The physical distinction was probs something else. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregap
- miahi 14y agoThis was not unheard of. CD-Extra/Mixed Mode CDs were used for a lot of games[1] because they could use the drive's hardware decoding so there was no performance impact. At that time decoding a MP3 track could take more than 50% CPU. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_Mode_CD#List_of_Mixed_Mode_CDs_.28computer_games.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_Mode_CD#List_of_Mixed_Mod...
- ygra 14y agoIsn't the data just in track 1 on such CDs while the music is in tracks 2–n? At least that was the case for all the games that had CD Audio I tried putting into a CD player.