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”).
I wonder how long that price will last. We might be living in just the right time to buy a boatload of optical drives.
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.
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!
I keep the C&C Tiberian sun and the original Far Cry box for nostalgia.
Tiberian Sun! I haven’t thought of that one in forever.
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.
You know that this answer will be mashed into an “AI” training set somewhere.
I remember back in the day when people were literally baking their nvidia GPUs in the oven to fix some solder issues, and cutting the PCI-E connectors to fit in an AGP slot. Can’t wait for AI to bring that shit back.
The piano PS3 has this issue with the same workaround
USB external optical drive with read and write capacity costs like 20€ where I am.
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)
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.
External cd drive is so cheap it’s almost free.
Drives are cheap
Then you get a drive, but the game you loved is no longer playable since the server it is using to confirm its license has been offline for years.
That’s when you go find the 2002 keygen/crack.
Yeah, but then it’s easier to download the whole game rather than buying a CD/DVD drive.
Yeah but you didn’t know that before buying the drive!
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.
I still use a blu ray drive just to burn my M-Discs
What is this meme from? It looks so familiar
Ironman 2
Iron man.
I think the third one?
That’s Tony’s dad, in a message he recorded for Tony.
Iron Man 2.
My bad, it’s been a while.
Black and White
I have an internal DVD-RW drive, but I disconnected the cable to use it for a new HDD I bought a few weeks ago
You unplugged a DVD drive to plug in a hard drive?
What does it feel like still living in 2010?
Yes. I didn’t have extra SATA cables
LOL I hope you have at least one NVME SSD to run the OS at least.
I do have that. I have been through the pain of running the OS on an HDD with my old computer and ever since I got an SSD, I can’t return.