It’s something [Daniel1111] has done with his Arduino CD player, which uses the little microcontroller board to control a CD-ROM drive via its IDE bus.

Armed with that BIOS file (and some additional sleuthing on components, memory, and IO mapping for the CD-ROM add-on), the latest ... and both versions seem to look and play practically ...

the first audio CD player—the Sony CDP-101—was a simple tray-loading machine. Phillips’ first effort, the CD100, was a top-loader. Neither used a caddy. Nor did the first CD-ROM drives—the ...

The unreleased console — which was formed out of an ill-fated partnership between Nintendo and Sony in the early ‘90s — can play games ... gotten the actual CD-ROM drive to work on the ...

Retro game enthusiasts may already be acquainted with Analogue, a company that designs and manufactures updated versions of classic consoles that can play original games but also be hooked up to ...

See DVD player and CD-ROM drives. DVD-ROM Data DVD-ROM Transfer Rate X Rating (MBytes/sec) 1x 1.39 2x 2.77 2.4x 3.32 4x 5.54 6x 8.31 8x 11.08 10x 13.85 12x 16.62 16x 22.16 18x 24.93 20x 27.70 22x ...

When playing audio CDs, CD-ROM drives output analog sound to both a headphone jack and external connector just like a CD player. This method is still the way audio CDs are played on a computer ...

Properly known as the “Play Station,” the machine would have been manufactured by Sony, played standard Super Famicom cartridge games, and also run games off a CD-ROM drive. Disputes between ...

The prototype features a slot for Super Famicom and Super Nintendo games and a CD-ROM drive which was meant to play discs. While the drive was not working when it was found in 2009, it has been ...

Got new technology? Great; you can plug Micro Solutions Inc.’s new Backpack Triple Play CD-RW into a newfangled, high-speed USB 2.0 port. Prefer old school? No problem; you can plug the $229 drive ...

The prototype features a slot for Super Famicom and Super Nintendo games and a CD-ROM drive which was meant to play discs. While the drive was not working when it was found in 2009, it has been ...