Great video! I have a small collection of AOL internet service disks; mostly not opened. Why AOL disks? They were quite creative with their packaging, with some coming in odd shaped metal tins. I believe I may have a few MSN disks too.
To be entirely honest, I totally forgot that I did that. And then while editing, I saw it again, starting laughing at myself so hard, I had to walk away and stop editing!
one of the discs you imaged: MSN 6.0, is known as MSN Explorer. the funny thing is i've been in obsession with MSN Explorer 6.x for 5 years now since i extracted the assets from the .mar files. being limited to making mockups using the image assets, i wasn't able to use the main UI (due to the service no longer existing) until this July. MSN Explorer has a UI design i desire so much :)
Thanks for the additional information! I had completely forgotten about MSN Explorer, and didn't really browse that disk much other than the video files that I showcased. Its cool to see people such as yourself working on these old programs to give them new life :)
also given I'm on Linux, I've mostly used a combination of "cdrdao" and "cp" to make disc images. cdrdao can copy multi-track discs and discs with odd geometry configurations and preserve them exactly.
Yup, workstations with 5.25in bays still exist, but are getting more and more rare. It was a total pain to find a decent case with bays, that also showed off the internals for my Win98 retro rig (something I'll be featuring in future videos) I just checked, looks like that Linux utility is also on FreeBSD, so I'll have to give it a try sometime. www.freshports.org/sysutils/cdrdao
Same. I have a Blu-ray burner in my system with a very modern Ryzen 5000 series CPU. I always build my own systems and didn't even know it is odd these days to have an optical drive until just recently.
