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Microsoft is gearing up to release the next version of the XBox with the key feature of the latest release is that the new XBox won't have a disc drive. While this may reduce the cost of each unit for Microsoft some buyers may regret the absence of the disc player given that many homes no longer have a standalone disc player relying on the games console for playing DVDs.
Perhaps this is a gift from Microsoft to Netflix introducing a new raft of customers looking for online content delivery.
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Microsoft to Release an XBox Without a Disc Drive
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @09:13AM (1 child)
I can still run these old games from cassettes using emulation or even, if I have, an original hardware. I can record them into modern machine and recognize them into working files. Some time ago I was involved in project in which we had a few kilometers of non-standard 9-channel punched tape to read into a PC. Readers were gone since late 1970s. I did this by modifying an old roller scanner and it worked perfectly. We got lots of archive scientific data and FORTRAN program to process them. The FORTRAN program, after modifying 18-20 lines related to I/O, got compiled on modern Fortran - after 40 years.
Show me a "digital distribution" game which allows to do it on a decade-old rig, not a ZX81. Every few years it's "sorry, our servers are out, screw you, buy another one".
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Wednesday May 01 2019, @01:41PM
Nova the Squirrel [novasquirrel.itch.io] and Lizard [rainwarrior.itch.io] will run on any rig with the appropriate virtual machine installed. Got a ThinkPad from 2009? No problem!