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Guilty. I have half a bookcase of legacy PC games
Played the absolute shit of of midtown madness when I was a kid. Such a throwback.
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.
Because i’m too lazy to back them up.
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
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.
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.
I got an external Blu Ray drive. It’s pretty sweet
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 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.
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!
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 used to have a USB floppy drive too. Now I just have disk images.
@UltraGiGaGigantic Nostalgia! It makes me happy every time I see my old favorite games.
What else am I supposed to fill my shelves with? Books?
Pfffffffffff
added a cd/dvd read/write on my pc for $25 new, mostly so I could install my old permanent license Photoshop CS6
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
Where is freelancer?!?!
Freelancer was so fucking fun!
Can’t believe there was never anything like it again.
Everspace (rogue like) / ES2
I think they can be used to reclaim your steam account if you lose access, so that’s why I like to keep mine. And it’s neat.
At one point recently I bought a two pack of USB Blu-ray burner drives for $25. Optical media is so dirt cheap now that the readers are BOGO. Gave one to my partner, the other is still serving my physical media needs very well.
Where? That sounds like a good price as internal SATA BD-RE drives tend to be $60+
