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It’s not like I do it or have like almost the same stack of boxes.
External drives are cheap. Got one working on the Steam Deck.
I pulled one out of an old laptop and bought an adapter for that purpose. :p Adapter was like 5 bucks.
Guilty. I have half a bookcase of legacy PC games
Uhh, because I have a working optical drive. Am I in the minority now? Doesn’t get a ton of use but every now and then I have to rip a DVD I own because it’s starting to die.
My pc sonetimes doesn’t start up, i assume the psu is wonky or something stupid like a wonky power button connector. I started to look into it and was shocked when i saw that my pc has a optical drive hidden behind a little hatch. I completely forgot about that. But also shows how much i need it.
I got an internal BDXL drive and flashed firmware to make sure I can rip the 4K discs I started getting as part of physical bundles. Still need to start getting NAS drives to be ready for when my main PC stops being my daily driver+Plex Server before I had to get a new TV that could view them (still don’t have a dedicated player and annoyed the PS4 Pro didn’t ship with 4K playback). For now I can at least hook my PC to the TV if I really want to watch a disc.
I have one as well in my PC of Theseus, it’s been an ongoing part for more than a decade now. But, I also haven’t used in in a year or more.
It’s kinda funny to think back at how excited I was when my father first installed a CD-ROM drive in our home PC and knowing I could now get some of the newest games which were coming out on PC at that time. And now, I don’t even know if my optical drive is still working.PCeus?
Not sure about the minority now, but you will be in a few years if not already. Prebuilt PCs haven’t included optical drives as standard for years now, and good luck buying a new laptop that has one.
Optical media isn’t dead but it’s on life support and will become functionally obsolete in the next decade, same as what happened to magnetic media.
I got an external Blu Ray drive. It’s pretty sweet
I used mine 3 days ago. Admittedly, it had probably been a few years since the last time that tray opened, but all was good!
I have two that are constantly hooked up to my mac! One for ripping and burning CDs and DVDs (which I still do regularly, in fact I ripped five audio CDs just today) and one for ripping/burning 4k/blu-ray. I occasionally use both at the same time to make copies of discs, but my need for that is for part of a hobby project.
Called out
Played the absolute shit of of midtown madness when I was a kid. Such a throwback.
Same
No, my pc doesn’t have an internal optical drive…. But doesn’t everyone have a usb portable drive?
Who isn’t keeping multiple vintage pcs? I keep a core2 system with a floppy and disc drives to deal with old media. It even has parralel and serial ports in case I need to deal with old hardware like zip drives. It has internal sata so it can boot from an ssd.
vintage pcs
core2
:'(
Ok, not vintage yet, but released 18 years ago an discontinued 12 years ago.
I got one and I’ve been watching old DVDs on my puter
I used to have a USB floppy drive too. Now I just have disk images.
Who else wishes there was more semi-attractive PC cases with an 5.25" bay? I have ripped many CDs and Blurays with my optical drive
What else am I supposed to fill my shelves with? Books?
Pfffffffffff
Because i’m too lazy to back them up.
Get into boardgames. Now you have big-ass nerdy gamer boxes in your library which actually have a reason to exist.
The problem with those is finding people to play with.
added a cd/dvd read/write on my pc for $25 new, mostly so I could install my old permanent license Photoshop CS6
Where is freelancer?!?!
Freelancer was so fucking fun!
Can’t believe there was never anything like it again.
Everspace (rogue like) / ES2
Is that half-life generation? Damn, I bet kids these days haven’t even heard of that one.
Just looked it up and it was basically Orange Box before Half-Life 2
