RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 7 hours agoHuge Half-Life discovery found from a decades-old CD sitting in a storage unitwww.pcgamesn.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up190arrow-down13
arrow-up187arrow-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 · 7 hours agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squareCoelacanth@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 hours 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-up1·3 hours 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)
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)