#cd-roms

[digitalfossils]

[maxillis]

just got to wednesday in my newest disco elysium run and got kim's "i'm sorry, harry. i'm so sorry" line and i'm gonna be real i forgot he said that. i forgot he sat with you for an hour and a half waiting for you to accept the inevitably true fact that you had a messy, loud suicide run across the bay and crashed your car into the ice where you will never, ever be able to retrieve it. and you don't have your badge. or your gun. and all you could think to do while you waited for the tide to go out was whistle. and he whistled with you. and when you realized what you did, and you were overcome with the enormity of your fuck-ups, he told you he was sorry. sorry that you have nothing else anymore but this job and this case, sorry that your décomptage (very understandably) left you deserted while you were spinning around in crash-out paradise, sorry that you didn't want to be this kind of animal anymore, sorry that you thought jumping the water lock bridge was the logical thing to do in that moment. as much as kim had been mostly aware of harry's blackout and everything that implied, don't tell me that seeing the sunken MC didn't immediately give him a sudden and whole vision that harry had also been wronged and put at the impossible end of a rope lit on fire and never fully extinguished. and harry let himself burn all the way down. the man thinks he's the sunset but he's the dying embers of an arsony charge, and kim is there soon enough to feel the warmth but too late to deny that the house isn't anything anymore but a pile of charred planks and nails. and he sees the human pieces left in the wreckage. and kim calls him harry instead of detective.

[foone]

Dear (do you have a title?) Foone,

how small can a cd be?

Yours sincerely,

Mx Rev

good question. physically? the business-card CDs are probably as small as they can get. They have some interesting geometry going on, as the discs are actually circular, as far as the drive cares. See they're shaped like this:

but the whole thing isn't usable! The drive only reads this part:

which is still circular.

You could set up the drive's TOC so that it only has a minimum of 1 track and have it end after only X seconds, where X is like... 1 or 2, and then shave the drive down more and more to the minimum readable area.

But data-size wise, CD-ROMs use a 2048 byte sector, so that'd be your minimum size: 2 kilobytes.

Technically there are some weird CD-ROMs that aren't standard compliant that are used on some HP or Sun systems that use 512-byte sectors, so if you could make one of those you could limit it to half a kilobyte. I don't know if any CD burning software can make those, though.

[blockygraphics]

Slides advertising the Nautilus CD-ROM magazine of the 1990s, from its 1992 Multimedia Madness edition. Info:

Metatec, a manufacturer of CD-ROM disks, started a CD-ROM magazine for the Macintosh called Nautilus in 1990 and added a Windows edition in 1991; the company says [ed. note: as of 1995] it has 11,000 subscribers.

[skyburger]

hi all, i have both lucky star okiraku boxes and you may have seen me post scans of the covers of the booklets + CDs on here :D well today i finally tesed out those CD-ROMs, and they work on windows 10! they're on archive.org-- here is konata's, and here is kagami's! have fun! (p.s. the image in this post is one of the included wallpapers!)

[embellishedbookworm]

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[digitalfossils]

Fisher Car Hi Fi Katalog (1986)