RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 10 days agoHuge Half-Life discovery found from a decades-old CD sitting in a storage unitwww.pcgamesn.comexternal-linkmessage-square77fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkHuge Half-Life discovery found from a decades-old CD sitting in a storage unitwww.pcgamesn.comRmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square77fedilink
minus-squareFlamekebab@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoBurning is writing a disc. Ripping is extracting data from a disc. Whoever wrote the article used lingo they don’t understand.
minus-squareZahille7@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoI knew it had to do with putting data on a disc. I didn’t know the specifics.
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoThat is what I thought, I have burned many discs in my day, and I have never got an ISO from bruning a disc.
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days agoYeah I would read “managed to burn the disc” to mean “managed to create a new CD-R copy of the original.” “Managed to rip the disc” would mean successfully created an .iso file.
Burning is writing a disc. Ripping is extracting data from a disc. Whoever wrote the article used lingo they don’t understand.
I knew it had to do with putting data on a disc. I didn’t know the specifics.
That is what I thought, I have burned many discs in my day, and I have never got an ISO from bruning a disc.
Yeah I would read “managed to burn the disc” to mean “managed to create a new CD-R copy of the original.” “Managed to rip the disc” would mean successfully created an .iso file.