: a CD containing computer data that cannot be altered
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The Duo for both systems added a CD-ROM drive to the setup and allowed games with more audio and graphics to be pumped through the system.—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 14 June 2025 Instead, developers reverse-engineered the game, including using CD-ROM hacking.—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 12 June 2025 On stage, Tenenbaum embodies True, the album’s main character, who exists in a sci-fi world where people get CD-ROMs slid into their foreheads to initiate a process of self-optimization.—Abigail Lee, Variety, 13 May 2025 The mid-budget film was a significant box office success, inspiring a spinoff series, a more recent reboot series, a Broadway musical, a series of YA books, and, best of all, a CD-ROM video game.—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 8 May 2025 Remember the ’90s, when every incoming email triggered its own cheery alert and mailboxes overflowed with free CD-ROMs from AOL?—Thomas H. Ruggie, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025 For those unaware, Lunar: The Silver Star, the first game in the series, debuted on the Sega CD peripheral for Sega Genesis back in 1992 (or 1993 in North America) featuring high-quality CD-ROM sound, full motion anime-style video cutscenes, and lots of voice acting.—David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025 But years before that, with the 1998 launch of the original Half-Life, Valve cofounder and then-CMO Monica Harrington said she was inspired to take DRM more seriously by her nephew's reaction to the purchase of a new CD-ROM burner.—Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2025 In 1989, the advent of CD-ROMs further revolutionized computing by introducing multimedia experiences.—Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
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