This immersive multimedia experience is created through a sophisticated and thoroughly entertaining CD-ROM computer simulation, called Titanic Challenge of Discovery ($30).

Originally, computer CD-ROM players, which are about the same size as a 5 1/4-inch hard disk drive, sold for $1,000 and up. They were typically bundled with a starter collection of CD-ROMs, ...

A virtual CD-ROM emulator works by allowing you to copy and run an image of a CD on your computer. The process serves as an alternative to placing a disc in your computer each time you want to use ...

QUESTION: My computer does not recognize my CD drive. It stopped doing this so I thought the CD player was just shot. I put in a new one and got the same result. I switched IDE cables, same result.

But pressed by the approach of Christmas and the re-release of the film, Disney released the CD-ROM. As with other home-computer programs published by Disney, technical work on Lion King was done ...

My computer is talking to me. “Now this recipe has been a secret for years,” it says. Imagine my excitement. Up pops Martha Stewart’s recipe for a salad of bibb lettuce, garlic, o… ...

By the mid-1990s, most CD-ROM drives could pass the digital data over the computer's bus (see digital audio extraction). PCs today use a standard four-pin cable; however, earlier cards and drives ...

Apologies in advance for the ridiculously dumb question...So, I'm at work in a new office, new computer (a funky old Compaq). It has 1 cd-rom, 1 cd-rw, and 3 ports on the back panel which are part ...

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Lately I have been able to fix my own noob computer problems, but this one has me stumped. I can play Warcraft III once per each reboot of my computer. If I exit the game and wish to play again, I ...

Peter Carbonell is the service manager of Computer Resources Inc., a Wethersfield outlet for Apple computers. So, he’s seen a lot of hyped-up software come and go. But he speaks in reverent t… ...