Posted by SignOfZeta on March 21, 2023 at 10:12:12 EST in reply to I'd say that anyone who messes with stuff like this probably ought to just get an old computer to do it with instead of trying to make it work with a modern computer. I keep an old X series Thinkpad that I rescued from an e-waste bin to use in these cases. It's got all the old ports on a docking station and I have MS-DOS, Win98Se, XP, a few versions of Linux, and some other OSes all on a GRUB menu. Actually, it's a pretty nice little computer and I often end up using it as my main computer. (n/t) from ThimkPad and Opa Opa.
Yes. Absolutely. A working period PC makes a lot of things easier. A few years ago I acquired a PhotoCD (Kodak’s thing…) and wanted to view it and holy shit, it’s way hard if not impossible on new stuff since the drives themselves aren’t compatible. On my PowerPC Mac Mini from 2004 though…no problem. BTW: PhotoCDs aren’t super high quality. Another example would be making direct copies of games for PCE CD, Neo CD, Mega CD, 3DO, etc is absolute cake (“copy this CD”) whereas new drives and new OS make it several more steps since they can tell those aren’t audio CDs and won’t pretend they are.
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