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    A CD-ROM (/ˌsiːdiːˈrɒm/, compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data...
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    500,000 units in its first week of release. The CD-ROM expansion was a major success for the CD-ROM format, selling 60,000 units in its first five months...
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  • The Super NES CD-ROM (commonly abbreviated to SNES-CD) is an unreleased add-on for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) video game console....
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  • Clueless (redirect from Clueless CD-ROM)
    film's soundtrack included "Supermodel" and "Kids in America". The Clueless CD-ROM is an activity and mini game collection based on the Clueless film and television...
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    organizing data on CD-ROMs into logical units such as files, which led to every CD-ROM maker creating its own format. In order to develop a CD-ROM file system...
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    CD-ROM players. Formats that fall under the enhanced CD category include mixed mode CD (Yellow Book CD-ROM/Red Book CD-DA), CD-i, CD-i Ready, and CD-Extra/CD-Plus...
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    those formats, along with having backward compatibility with audio CD, CD-R/-RW, and CD-ROM discs. Compact disc drives are no longer manufactured outside of...
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    discs replaced CD-ROMs, and by the mid-2000s, internet encyclopedias were dominant and replaced disc-based software encyclopedias. CD-ROM encyclopedias...
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    The Hyper CD-ROM is a claimed optical data storage device similar to the CD-ROM with a multilayer 3D structure, invented by Romanian scientist Eugen Pavel...
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    Dreamcast and other Sega systems. A double-density format based on the CD-ROM that could hold up to 1 GB, it consists of a single-density track near the...
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    square CDs with full screen hi-fi stereo video which played in quad speed CD-ROM or DVD drives with the centre well. A variety of laser cut shapes were developed...
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    audio CD (Red Book CD-DA) and data CD (Yellow Book CD-ROM) standards. The Yellow Book standard for CD-ROM only specifies a high-level data format and refers...
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    Compact disc (redirect from CD)
    non-audio computer data storage purposes as CD-ROM and its derivatives. First released in Japan in October 1982, the CD was the second optical disc technology...
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    and three types of CD-ROM formats (CD-ROM², Super CD-ROM², and Arcade CD-ROM², each requiring the console to be equipped with a CD drive and the corresponding...
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    MPEG-1 in standard MPEG-1, AVI, and Matroska files, or inability to read CD-ROM XA discs. Some Laserdisc players that were released in the late 90s support...
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    The Sega CD, known as Mega-CD in most regions outside North America and Brazil, is a CD-ROM accessory and format for the Sega Genesis produced by Sega...
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    Philips and Japanese company Sony. It was created as an extension of CDDA and CD-ROM and specified in the Green Book specifications, co-developed by Philips...
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    1988 and ECMA-130 in 1989 CD-ROM XA (eXtended Architecture) – a 1991 extension of CD-ROM, developed by Philips and Sony CD-i (Interactive) – standard...
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  • that for "those who do not wish to wait" for software that used the new CD-ROM format, The Software Toolworks and Access Software planned to release "game...
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    readers built prior to the introduction of CD-RW. CD-ROM drives with a "MultiRead" certification are compatible. CD-RWs must be erased or blanked before reuse...
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    influential in the progression of video game music, used in mixed mode CD-ROMs, providing CD-quality audio popularized during the 1990s on hardware such as PlayStation...
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  • CD-ROM Today was an American magazine targeted at computer users. Published from 1993 to 1996 by Imagine Publishing (now Future US), the magazine was initially...
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    runs directly from a CD-ROM or similar storage device into a computer's memory, rather than loading from a hard disk drive. A live CD allows users to run...
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    ISSN (redirect from CD-ROM ISSN)
    print and electronic media versions of a serial need separate ISSNs, and CD-ROM versions and web versions require different ISSNs. However, the same ISSN...
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  • applied to an unprotected medium using typical hardware and software. Most CD-ROMs use the ISO9660 file system to organize the available storage space for...
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    The Atari Jaguar CD is a CD-ROM peripheral for the Jaguar video game console. Only 13 games were released for the Jaguar CD during its lifetime. However...
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    Read-only memory (redirect from Mask ROM)
    Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices. Data stored in ROM cannot be electronically modified...
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    2010. Cdburn.exe: ISO CD-ROM Burner Tool [~snip] Dvdburn.exe: ISO DVD Burner Tool Lowe, Scott (December 18, 2008). "How to use CD & DVD image files without...
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    A ROM cartridge, usually referred to in context simply as a cartridge, cart, cassette, or card, is a replaceable part designed to be connected to a consumer...
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  • support for Windows 7). MSN Games announced the retiring of support for CD-ROM games, chat lobbies, the ZoneFriends client and the Member Plus program...
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