cd-rom

A tool providing additional ECC protection for optical media (unofficial version)

CDEmu code

Windows Multimedia API (winmm.dll) CD Audio Emulator

Atari Jaguar and Jaguar CD emulator for libretro/RetroArch — the actively maintained continuation of Virtual Jaguar. Embedded BIOS, save states, netplay link cable, RetroAchievements.

Using an Arduino pro-mini to turn an IDE CD-ROM drive into a standalone CD player

Solid State CD-ROM emulation with a Raspberry Pi Zero

Or how to build from Linux an ISO hybrid image bootable from BIOS or UEFI.

Extract assets from Media Station, Inc. CD-ROM titles (including Disney's Animated Storybook)

A re-creation of the original Diehard random number CD-ROM

Replacement for MS-DOS FINDCD.EXE batch utility that uses filename argument and written in ASM

A CD-ROM bound into the Italian magazine CLIC!, mastered with Toast 2.5 on 14 Feb 1997, measured from an image. An ownership map walked from BOTH filesystems at once: 96.79% of the disc is owned twice and 2 sectors of 248,359 belong to nobody. 13.8 MB of non-zero padding. Tomb Raider, 16 of 16 levels.

Read Ford service manual DVDs without the original Windows software — extracts the workshop manual, wiring diagrams and PCED off a Ford Technical Service Publications disc and rebuilds them as a searchable static site. Includes the first public spec of Ford's BAY POD and IDICOMP formats.

Multitool for all your ISO\IMG needs

Optical discs duplicator – TurboJet fork

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (PC, Electronic Arts, 2001) measured from the retail disc: ISO 9660 layout, a table hidden in the volume descriptor, the read window that hides the border of a 9,280-sector unreadable region, 249 Unreal Engine 1 packages, and 31 levels in one line.

Underground (PC, Tecniche Nuove, 1999): a Nero-burned CD-ROM measured to the byte. 61.0193 % is 24.9 s of rendered film at a data rate no 1999 drive could serve; the BANK archive format and a Microsoft Video 1 decoder derived from the bytes; four authors credited only in pixels.

A wall mounted rack to hold CD jewel cases (with 3D printed pegs design)

Measurements of the 883 'Grazie mille' CD Extra data session (Italy, 1999): a Director 7 program, a slot machine, and an Activeworlds chat client whose world server address survived in a cache directory name.