SAN FRANCISCO — Sony Corp., which late last year began selling the first hand-held CD-ROM player, plans to release a second, more powerful device in the United States this fall that will play more ...

The ScummVM community has just made the early CD-ROM gaming era more accessible. For five years, multiple people have worked on making Macromedia Director games playable on modern hardware, and today, ...

A CD-ROM drive can be used as a stand-alone unit for playing digital audio CDs without interfacing with a computer. The stereo output of CD player available at the audio jack can be amplified using ...

After over a year of on-and-off tinkering, the "Nintendo PlayStation" is fully operational. The unreleased console — which was formed out of an ill-fated partnership between Nintendo and Sony in the ...

Q. I recently exchanged my 8X CD-ROM drive for a new 24X. When I play a game like Scrabble, where it is necessary to spend time deciding which tile to play, the drive powers down and stops. When I ...