Those old CD games that have been sitting on your shelf for eternity? Linux can run them.

I think the headline might give the wrong impression to some people. ScummVM isn't general-purpose like DOSBox: each supported game engine has been painstakingly reimplemented in modern code. It's not ...

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, ...

ScummVM, the collection of recreated last-century game engines that allows replaying classic adventures from the likes of LucasArts and Revolution, has just added support for Macromedia Director. This ...

1993: Broderbund Software releases Myst, a game for the Macintosh computer that becomes a record-setting best-seller and the killer app that sparks sales of CD-ROM drives. Brothers Rand and Robyn ...

Analogue’s consoles use a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chip, which can, in simple terms, simulate the original hardware accurately and without software-based emulation. The Analogue Duo, the ...

Rhenn is a Manila-based content writer with a love for all things geek and pop culture, and science and technology. He graduated BA Journalism degree as a Cum Laude, and has since then pursued making ...

In another case of digital rights management doing harm to paying customers, a slew of CD-ROM games are being rendered inoperable by a security update in Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. As ...

Theresa Duncan was well-known in the New York City art world when she and her talented boyfriend Jeremy Blake took their own lives two weeks apart in the summer of 2007. Years before her untimely ...

Hudson has announced that TurboGrafx CD games, including Super CD games, will be available on Virtual Console starting in October in Japan. The titles, none of which have been announced specifically, ...

“I wanted it to be a rich literary experience, so I tried to use words and ideas that children might not otherwise experience. People aren’t as critical of New Media as they are of cinema or ...

Believe it or not, back in the 1990s, a lot of people thought CD-ROMs were going to the change the world. We were wrong, of course, and with the rise of the World Wide Web, most people have now long ...