@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 2 months agoGabe Newell says no-one in the industry thought Steam would work as a distribution platform—'I'm not talking about 1 or 2 people, I mean like 99%'www.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square96fedilinkarrow-up1436arrow-down112cross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1424arrow-down1external-linkGabe Newell says no-one in the industry thought Steam would work as a distribution platform—'I'm not talking about 1 or 2 people, I mean like 99%'www.pcgamer.com@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square96fedilinkcross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.ca
minus-square@turmacar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish5•2 months agoBeware bit rot. Granted most of those are going to be archived anyway but I wouldn’t count on them being useable indefinately.
minus-square@deranger@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-22 months agoGood news is that disc rot doesn’t happen as quickly for stamped CDs as it does in CD-Rs.
Beware bit rot.
Granted most of those are going to be archived anyway but I wouldn’t count on them being useable indefinately.
Good news is that disc rot doesn’t happen as quickly for stamped CDs as it does in CD-Rs.