Comment on How does ripping a CD/DVD work exactly? Is it similar to copying or does it leave the CD/DVD unusable?

• frunch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How else were ya gonna play 7th Guest? With a 1x?!? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • SoleInvictus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We had a 1x so it was too slow for Phantasmagoria. Instead of buying a new drive, my father picked up this terrible software that would write portions of the data to the hard drive when the game bogged down. It kind of worked but only after you went through it once, so whoever played the game after you got a smoother experience.

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    • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s really cool! It’s a good example of what i like to think of as “transitional tech”–stuff that did the job, but as tech continued to evolve their usefulness phased out.

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  • Aganim@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or Wing Commander III, with its ludicrous 4 CD’s. 😱

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• s38b35M5@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anyone remember the Kenwood TrueX drives? I was so in love with mine for a while, but it wasn’t always supported.

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• maynarkh@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  a 2x drive

  I lived in a non-anglophone country when those were a thing, how do you pronounce that? “Twice” drive? “Two ex” drive? “Double speed” drive?

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  • Boinkage@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m an American, I would say two ex drive.

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  • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You got no luck with me, I am not a native English speaker. In English I would call this “two ex” but now that I think of it in German we would say “two times”, or at least thats what I and my friends called it.

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Both of those are fine. As a native English speaker I literally say both of those depending on my mood.

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  • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Double speed” and “two ex” both work, however it’s much, much more common to say “two ex” because of the fact that a lot of modern disc drives can read up to 52x for CDs.

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  • cynar@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m a native English speaker, and all of the but the first get/were used. “Two times” would also be commonly used (at least where I grew up).

    English is inconsistent as hell, even to native speakers. We are just better at hiding our confusion about it. (Bane’s speech on darkness, from one of the Batcam films, comes to mind)

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