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Huge Half-Life discovery found from a decades-old CD sitting in a storage unit (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Just a small correction (that makes things worse):

It is sort of surreal to see someone so young they don't know what burning a CD is writing an article about a game older than CD burners.

The person asking the question here is correct, the phrase in the article makes no sense, and it's likely written by someone who heard the lingo "burn" in reference to discs but it's too young to have use it themselves (otherwise they would have said they ripped the intact CD, or they burned copies of it)

Edit: Also I think CD burners came out around the same time (I remember a store that sold copies in my city back in the 90s), although I personally didn't had a disk burner for many years (but also I didn't played Half-life for many years after it came out, so I guess it evens out)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

CD-Rs and CD burners were first available in the early 90's but they were "we'll take the helicopter out to the yacht" expensive. By 1998 they were starting to become normal consumer-grade equipment. I had one as a teenager in the year 2000, along with a Rio CD-MP3 player.

I've still got the computer I had in later high school and college, a Pentium 3 rig that I plan on turning into a sleeper PC for my midlife crisis. It has a DVD-ROM drive and a CD burner. I wonder if they're SATA or some older "we don't do it this way anymore" buses? I remember that machien talking about SCSI during boot-up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My drives in the early 2000s were SCSI, the connector was a flat wide grey cable. I remember my first SATA disk as being a great improvement, still had jumpers though.

In any case, the game is not older than CD burners, like I said, I was buying burned CDs before that, and I lived in a small South American city, so they should be very accessible for North American/European folks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

True, I actually misremembered Halflife as being from earlier in the 90s than it really was.