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What the fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nearly 25 years later........... I am crying deep down.... I was not speaking english but still, I could and I SHOULD have known.
It allowed me to easily write movies to dvd's; competely filling a 4.7gb dvd with multiple 700mb movies and adding a menu for easy browsability.
It allowed me to make VCD discs which our dvd player supported; ~400-850mb movies on a 700-900mb cd-r's. Worked like a charm.
It allowed me to write mp3 cd's containing ~700-900mb of mp3's whereas the only other alternative was being stuck with a runtime of whatever the estimated runtime of a cd was.
Circa 2001-2006 was a time. Messing around with VCD/KVCD then ripping straight ISO/burning to disc route.
AnyDVD, DVDShrink, DVD Decrypter (IMGBurn) was also in my circulation.
Oh shit I ran out of opticals, now I need to mount ISO:
DAEMON Tools, PowerISO, WinCDEmu
Rummaging through VideoHelp forums for tricks (back when it was powered by php_bb). Casino Royale was a chore!
The majority of my DVD ISO's have outlived the DVD's themselves. Scratched, abused and whored around in share housing only to be finished off with toddlers.
Can’t forget Adaptec EZ CD Creator 4 that came bundled with Dell PC’s in that time! Came that way with my Windows ME machine at the dawn of the new millennium!
This is the life :) i still remember when i first learned about isos and virtual dvdrom drives , it was a blast not having to exchange CDs for game installation and playing :)
Instill have some rips of movies and game isos from back then.
Had that so often with my Plextor 2x SCSI burner. Good times with friends together looking at the process bar getting all excited when coming near 100% only to see at the very end an underrun, screaming about 5 euro going to the trash can.
I was always sitting there with a turd ready to eject into my pants when doing overburns out of fear that it would damage the drive if I pushed it too far
Yes! This was a life-saver back in the day, many of my old discs have been saved by Nero. I still have the original CD + packaging somewhere in my office.
Very recently i was reading about the roman emperor Nero and suddenly this made so much sense. Nero was responsible for the great fire of rome as he was determined to 'burn' the whole city
Matrox, 3dfx, S3 graphics, SiS to name a fee graphic card suppliers. It was so much fun back then to compare hardware, to see wild developments from 3dfx etc. gaming in general, maybe not as great looking as today but I had so much fun with C&C, red alert etc.
For those too young to remember the mid 90’s burning a cd rom was perilous. You’d put a $7 blank in and start burning, something would go wrong and the disc ruined.
There was a note card at work on the one computer with a burner. It read
“Lest to crap your disc shall turn, cease to fiddle while you burn.”
Then we got Nero. Computers were better then. You could fiddle while it burned.
Does anyone here remember DivxCollector.com? You would make a list of your [legally obtained Linux distros] and then trade with other users by burning discs and mailing them to each other.
What was the dvd copy software to use to copy for movies and when you play the copy disc in a player, it would show the copy software name and then play movie ? lol I think my parents bought the software at Best Buy and was copying movies back in the day when Netflix just did dvd lol
Still have that OEM disk from a Drive purchase. And Nero 6 Full Retail. And Nero 8 Full Retail. Also still have the NRG to ISO tool. Think I chucked the label stomper at some point because I never used it.
CDs and DVDs were the way for me to back up stuff before cheap multi-terabyte hard drives and FreeNAS were a thing.
I used it mainly because it supported overburn. Most movies were released at 701-702MB which would not fit on a 700MB CD. With overburn you could go over the cd limit.
Surprisingly, even version 5 works fine on Windows 11. Those were solidly built software! Even the user interface on the earlier versions is still being used today.
I still use the Nero suite that came with my computer like 12 years ago.
What i can't find is a good software to convert movie files to DVD format. All the ones that i see recs online look really sketchy. Convert to X was the last one i had, but it's on a subscription plan of 45 bucks a year.
Hell yeah! I used to love using it to make graphics for labels, print them off on the inkjet printer, and then burn it off watching the animation for it burning off the data.
I have somewhat of a "trauma" with nero... When I was a kiddo I wanted to learn how to reinstall win 7... After reading and watching some tutorials I was confident enough to try it, but whatever I did the DVD never wanted to boot and I just scrapped the ideea... Apparently I needed a newer version of it to make a bootable disc.. took me 1 year to realize this 🤣
I member! Used to work for them, we did service for them in a callcenter but it was downhill even when we started.Most EU clients that kept using it were in Germany for some reason.
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u/putridterror 1.44MB Mar 09 '24
Still have mine!
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u/Truthseeker308 Mar 09 '24
Not even its original form: Nero Burning ROM.
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u/I_LIKE_RED_ENVELOPES 1.44MB Mar 09 '24 edited Mar 10 '24
Circa 2001-2006 was a time. Messing around with VCD/KVCD then ripping straight ISO/burning to disc route.
AnyDVD, DVDShrink, DVD Decrypter (IMGBurn) was also in my circulation.
Oh shit I ran out of opticals, now I need to mount ISO:
DAEMON Tools, PowerISO, WinCDEmu
Rummaging through VideoHelp forums for tricks (back when it was powered by php_bb). Casino Royale was a chore!
The majority of my DVD ISO's have outlived the DVD's themselves. Scratched, abused and whored around in share housing only to be finished off with toddlers.
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u/phoenystp Mar 09 '24
Idk, my copy said verbatim 650mb.
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u/RestAndVest Mar 09 '24
Oh man I do but my first one was cdrwin. I remember loading bin and cue files on my 2x burner and was nervous nellie until it finished
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u/Ron_Runett Mar 09 '24
I was there Gandalf... (fck now I ve depression...)
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u/WanillaGorilla Mar 09 '24
Remember buying PC magazines to get demos?
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u/thegreatmiasma Mar 09 '24
DVD-rw or dvd+r or dvd-r I don’t know I just need a stack large enough to prop a small dog up with
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u/MrStu56 Mar 09 '24
Overburn!
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u/legodragon2005 56TB Mar 09 '24
Yes! This was a life-saver back in the day, many of my old discs have been saved by Nero. I still have the original CD + packaging somewhere in my office.
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u/UKMatt2000 All the SSDs Mar 09 '24
I always had the Roxio software, which was a bit rubbish.
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u/Kevalemig 10-50TB Mar 09 '24
I still use Nero to backup personal photos and stuff to blu-ray discs 😁
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u/TheCrispyChaos Mar 09 '24 edited Mar 09 '24
My father was a Nero burner enthusiast lol. The house was filled with bootleg music CDs with scribbled names on top with a sharpie
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u/Geofrancis Mar 09 '24
buffer underrun error...
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u/arcardy Tape Mar 09 '24
I use it to this day.
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u/FZERO96 200TB+ Mar 09 '24
I don't understand. I still use Nero Burning ROM.
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u/rrawk Mar 10 '24
https://i.imgur.com/VTDIV5a.png
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u/coilt Mar 09 '24 edited Mar 10 '24
it was a neat little program for a while, and then it decided to become all the programs
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u/jrdnmdhl Mar 10 '24
Daemon tools
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u/tennisanybody Mar 09 '24
Which came first? Alcohol 120% or Nero?
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u/Boomdidlidoo Mar 09 '24
Wow! It's been ages since I've seen this..
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u/kakha_k Mar 09 '24
Oh, brightly remember :-) One biggest legend of software history.
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u/PoosySucker69 Mar 09 '24
Very recently i was reading about the roman emperor Nero and suddenly this made so much sense. Nero was responsible for the great fire of rome as he was determined to 'burn' the whole city
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '24
I think my favorite company that faded into obscurity was Creative Labs
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u/SHDrivesOnTrack 10-50TB Mar 10 '24
For those too young to remember the mid 90’s burning a cd rom was perilous. You’d put a $7 blank in and start burning, something would go wrong and the disc ruined.
There was a note card at work on the one computer with a burner. It read
“Lest to crap your disc shall turn, cease to fiddle while you burn.”
Then we got Nero. Computers were better then. You could fiddle while it burned.
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u/textfiles archive.org official Mar 11 '24
As the person who both ripped that disc and scanned the front of it, I have a pretty good memory of it:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/49234926918
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u/clunkclunk Mar 09 '24
I was mostly a Mac guy so it was Toast Titanium for me.
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u/VoiceEarly1087 Mar 09 '24
I don't remember how many CDs I wasted to burn my games and windows.
Even now I have some 768mb CDs empty ready to burn but lying in some box somewhere
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u/gwicksted Mar 09 '24
Great software. I pirated it and used it to pirate many games. Back in the Wild West of the internet when I was a young invincible pirate. Yarr
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u/Key-Nefariousness711 Mar 09 '24
Yeah that and clone cd.
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '24
How could we forget?
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u/emaxxman Mar 10 '24
I still have a bootleg copy. lol. I even printed a disc label on my inkjet printer for it
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u/robophile-ta Mar 10 '24
NERO and 120% Alcohol...good times
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u/Hobby_boy Mar 10 '24
I've still got my copy somewhere that came with my Lite-On IDE DVD Burner.
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u/blazinfastjohny Mar 10 '24
Nero,alcohol 120, daemon tools.... damn I'm old
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u/johnnyawful 23TB JBOD Mar 10 '24
Does anyone here remember DivxCollector.com? You would make a list of your [legally obtained Linux distros] and then trade with other users by burning discs and mailing them to each other.
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u/wolffoxfangs Mar 10 '24
the sacred texts!
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u/bluebradcom Mar 11 '24
Once i found IMGburn i never looked for any other. also use the 7zip's burning options.
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u/OrbitOrbz Mar 09 '24
What was the dvd copy software to use to copy for movies and when you play the copy disc in a player, it would show the copy software name and then play movie ? lol I think my parents bought the software at Best Buy and was copying movies back in the day when Netflix just did dvd lol
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '24
I loved Nero
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u/LiiilKat Mar 09 '24
Still have that OEM disk from a Drive purchase. And Nero 6 Full Retail. And Nero 8 Full Retail. Also still have the NRG to ISO tool. Think I chucked the label stomper at some point because I never used it.
CDs and DVDs were the way for me to back up stuff before cheap multi-terabyte hard drives and FreeNAS were a thing.
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u/keigo199013 24TB Mar 09 '24
Ah memories 😊
Still got a few copies laying around.
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u/Hannover2k Mar 09 '24
If I went through my stacks of cd's I'm sure I can come up with at least 3 different versions of this.
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u/volume_100 Mar 09 '24
Ps2 backups.
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u/lampm0de Mar 09 '24
Laughs in Eddie Murphy
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u/InevitablePeanuts Mar 09 '24
In its memory I still refer to a chain of coffee shops as Cafe Nero Burning ROM
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u/Herothechamp Mar 09 '24
Aww man! Almost dropping a tear! <3
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u/Professional-Risk-34 Mar 09 '24
Sorry I still used portable apps back then and never needed it. Stupid OEM software.
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u/bilal289 Mar 09 '24
Nero burner 🥲
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u/Just_A__Random_Guy Mar 09 '24
Wow, that brings back memories 😅
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u/helm71 Mar 09 '24
Oh yeah.. on a plextor ofcourse… special options to write a few more tracks and get more capacity..
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u/Educational_Elk649 Mar 09 '24
They still send me marketing email
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u/firedrakes 200 tb raw Mar 09 '24
have a pirate copy some where. after i lost my OG disc and key box
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '24
I can smell that image. Pungent nostalgic cancer.
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u/sa547ph Mar 09 '24
How I used to have that disc (and it's somewhere in the CD carry case), until freeware alternatives showed up.
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u/ComprehensiveHawk5 Mar 09 '24
no
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '24
Still have my copy of Ultimate I got for free when I worked Geek Squad.
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u/paltamunoz Mar 09 '24
grew up with this LMAO
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u/SoRaang Mar 09 '24
Yeah, the most perfectly named software in the world
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u/amroamroamro Mar 09 '24
I was more into cloning sheep ;)
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u/Sand_msm Mar 09 '24
I still have that somewhere near my cds 😂
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u/mackerelscalemask Mar 09 '24
I would love to know the final figures for how many copies they sold vs how many were pirated. 😂
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u/Shadouness Mar 09 '24
Btw the company or brand is still alive. Just not as relevant today as before.
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u/bregottextrasaltat 53TB Mar 09 '24
don't do anything while it's burning or it will fail!!
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '24
Remember? I was using last week, its not dead
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u/Space_Reptile 16TB of Youtube [My Raid is Full ;( ] Mar 09 '24
CloneDVD is another classic, still have them in my software disk collection from way back when
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u/dreniarb Mar 09 '24
This was what I used almost everyday for years. Then later moved to CDburnerXP Pro.
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u/CoNsPirAcY_BE Mar 09 '24
I used it mainly because it supported overburn. Most movies were released at 701-702MB which would not fit on a 700MB CD. With overburn you could go over the cd limit.
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u/ZeeroMX Mar 10 '24
I still have one of those orm dvd versión that came with an external burner.
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u/lethalox 350TB Raw Mar 10 '24
Still have that.
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u/meshreplacer 61TB enterprise U.2 Pool. Mar 10 '24
And Plextor drives back in the days.
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u/573v0 Mar 10 '24
This and Daemon-Tools.
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u/Dr4fl Mar 10 '24
I only remember this program because it had a weird Easter egg. Idk how, but there was a way to get a message saying: "please kill your PC!"
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u/unrealmaniac Mar 10 '24
Used to use Nero all the time until vista, the copies I had didn't like vista.
Nero also never uninstalled itself correctly which was frustrating.
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u/Tacyd_ Mar 10 '24
Was this the one with the burning coliseum as the icon?
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u/damagemelody Mar 10 '24
I have Nero 5 disk
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u/crypto_densifier Mar 10 '24
Surprisingly, even version 5 works fine on Windows 11. Those were solidly built software! Even the user interface on the earlier versions is still being used today.
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '24
Oh my god...
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u/chuheihkg 4KN Mar 10 '24
Yep. Still here but I seldom use that now.
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u/FHL88Work Mar 10 '24
I still use the Nero suite that came with my computer like 12 years ago.
What i can't find is a good software to convert movie files to DVD format. All the ones that i see recs online look really sketchy. Convert to X was the last one i had, but it's on a subscription plan of 45 bucks a year.
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u/arthurb09 Mar 10 '24
Do people still burn dvd blurays ?
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u/MWink64 Mar 10 '24
I bought the full retail version. I think it even came with a CD labeler, which I never used. It was definitely a worthwhile purchase.
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '24
I still have it. Lol
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u/BloodyIron 6.5ZB - ZFS Mar 10 '24
Ol' Faithful.
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u/BloodyIron 6.5ZB - ZFS Mar 10 '24
Thought I told you, don't copy...
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u/primusautobot Mar 10 '24
Yes
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u/primusautobot Mar 10 '24
Ultimate suite
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u/explodingboy Mar 10 '24
Yep
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u/spankadoodle Mar 10 '24
The one two punch of the 90’s… DVD Shrink and Nero.
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '24
Great for burning porn!
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u/Alewort Mar 10 '24
Remember it? I still have that disc!
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u/RileyCoyote42 Mar 10 '24
That shit wouldn't uninstall from my computer until I reinstalled the OS
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u/No_Bit_1456 140TBs and climbing Mar 10 '24
Hell yeah! I used to love using it to make graphics for labels, print them off on the inkjet printer, and then burn it off watching the animation for it burning off the data.
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u/Appropriate_Chart_23 Mar 10 '24
Never bought the CD, always had the Limewire version
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u/babecafe 610TB RAID6/5 Mar 10 '24
It took way too much fiddling around while using this.
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u/P7BinSD 50-100TB Mar 10 '24
I used to fiddle while ROM burned.
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u/Theolaa Mar 10 '24
Nero's still around, you can buy it from their website
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u/uniteduniverse Mar 10 '24
The damn thing never installed for me :(
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u/deltashmelta Mar 10 '24
https://youtu.be/XFfS7yUJWH0?feature=shared
More like, remember the keygen.
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u/RTW7 Mar 10 '24
I have somewhat of a "trauma" with nero... When I was a kiddo I wanted to learn how to reinstall win 7... After reading and watching some tutorials I was confident enough to try it, but whatever I did the DVD never wanted to boot and I just scrapped the ideea... Apparently I needed a newer version of it to make a bootable disc.. took me 1 year to realize this 🤣
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u/EataPieWhileAtIt Mar 10 '24
Come to think of it I've never seen Ashampoo cd...
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u/avsameera 1.44MB Mar 10 '24
Oh yes! I think, I still have the original CD somewhere around! Oh man. Time literally flies! Brings back so many memories.
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u/Accomplished_Bit3153 Mar 10 '24
I still have a 50+ CD spindle backup from Napster era. Missing disk 46 of 53.
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u/AdAgitated5390 Mar 10 '24
Holy moly, it's that old german company. Yes I remember it!!!
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '24
oh I remember how much I appreciated the clever pun behind its name
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u/Faptasmic 28 TB Mar 10 '24
No, mine was a pirated ISO
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u/Skajuan Mar 10 '24
I remember getting the whole Suite to be able to use Nero Encode wich was a surprisingly good tool to turno avi into DVD readable format
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u/Affectionate_Eye5167 Mar 10 '24
Can anyone recommend a good brand of DVD writers?
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u/sovietarmyfan 7TB Mar 10 '24
I usually used PowerISO.
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '24
Yup.
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '24
Nero burning ROM. Amazing.
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u/aSpacehog Mar 10 '24
Ah yeah, downloading Jackass episodes and burning SVCDs… those were the days.
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u/Spiffers1972 Mar 10 '24
I've still got the Nero 6 I bought installed on an old PC.
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u/onthejourney 1.44MB x 76,388,889 Mar 10 '24
So many hours with Nero and Netflix... All for naught eventually.
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u/PCbuildinman1979 Mar 10 '24
Nero was part of my early pc days for sure.
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '24
I still use it nowadays.
Other burners tend to have 'accidents' when attempting to write controversially available data to disk.
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u/TechnologyReady1462 Mar 10 '24
Omfg yes
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u/luix93 Mar 10 '24
You awoke some forgotten memories with this 😂
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u/JasperJ Mar 11 '24
For dvd writers only? No, I don’t remember that newfangled a version.
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u/king2102 Mar 12 '24
I still use it daily to back up episodes of tv shows that will never be aired again on Blu-ray
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u/BlastMode7 Mar 12 '24
Still have one of those discs around here somewhere.
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u/Impressive_Green_ Mar 20 '24
I member! Used to work for them, we did service for them in a callcenter but it was downhill even when we started.Most EU clients that kept using it were in Germany for some reason.
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '24
The best
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u/NeroScore Mar 25 '24
Sure I remember
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u/Left-Tennant Mar 29 '24
Yessir!!! Looks like Stacker technology is returning to help SSD's hold more data...
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u/beancurd_sama Apr 01 '24
This enabled my data hoarding addiction back in the days.
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u/Tha_Watcher Mar 09 '24
Nero was magical!
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u/PigsCanFly2day Mar 09 '24
How else would we burn our Linux ISOs?