RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months agoHuge Half-Life discovery found from a decades-old CD sitting in a storage unitwww.pcgamesn.comexternal-linkmessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1230arrow-down112
arrow-up1218arrow-down1external-linkHuge Half-Life discovery found from a decades-old CD sitting in a storage unitwww.pcgamesn.comRmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square75fedilink
minus-squareCoelacanth@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoAh, that’s what it was! I always thought it was just a different color for 0 and 1, today I learned! That makes more sense when I think about it.
minus-squareMeThisGuy@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoCD - red laser BlueRay - blue laser… shorter wavelength --> more data on same size disk and inbetween there was DL - dual layer light scribe - could etch a picture on the top of the cd and RW - rewriteable CDs (CD is short for compact disc)
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months ago light scribe I remember having one, but I never actually etched a picture onto the CD, it never seemed worth doing.
Ah, that’s what it was! I always thought it was just a different color for 0 and 1, today I learned! That makes more sense when I think about it.
CD - red laser
BlueRay - blue laser… shorter wavelength --> more data on same size disk
and inbetween there was DL - dual layer
light scribe - could etch a picture on the top of the cd
and RW - rewriteable CDs
(CD is short for compact disc)
I remember having one, but I never actually etched a picture onto the CD, it never seemed worth doing.