CD-ROMs, on the other hand, offered nearly limitless opportunities for creativity with their video-rich multimedia interfaces.
It's already marketing a polycarbonate for optical media like CD-ROMs that can shorten customers' production cycles.
Once you've configured where your ROMs are located, you'll want to customize your controllers for playing games.
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It reads DVD- and CD-ROMs, and its MPEG decoder interface connected seamlessly to the ATI video card.
Companies are also improving technology to enhance inventory tags, and are using CD-ROMs to train employees interactively on spotting suspicious behavior.
The catch is that most companies won't sell you ROMs or provide a means for you to purchase them.
Select one of the ROMs from your list and double click on it.
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But Kodak also plunged into the fiercely competitive digital storage game with recordable CD-ROMs (Photo CD) and optical disks.
Hacking firmwares, ROMs, and OS distributions is a long and noble tradition, and provide many wonderful proofs of concept.
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While preparing the Matiz for a fourth-quarter launch, Daewoo has started sending 1.5 million mailers and CD-ROMs to potential buyers.
Go ahead and navigate to where your Atari 2600 ROMs are by using the mouse or the arrow keys on your keyboard.
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Besides the game market, there's a world of PCs to conquer -- graphics accelerators make videogame and other interactive CD-ROMs more lively.
Again, how you get those ROMs there is entirely up to you.
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Speaking of custom ROMs, they're a ton of fun to play around with, but they're hardly the quickest route to the latest software.
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In all, there are about 1, 000 photographs on three CD-ROMs. Many of the photographs are of sites in Iraq, similar to tourist photographs.
Andrew Cushing's company, Tacklesport, based in Worcester, England, supplies interactive CD-ROMs of different sports throughout the world, from top-level teams to school teachers.
This is true for most custom ROMs, and as it stands, not a single fully functional Android 4.2 ROM exists for the One X.
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Meizu MX and M9: Meizu released its public beta ROMs that are based on Android 4.0.3 for both the MX and M9 handsets.
This is a revenue opportunity for virtual schools and specialized portals that offer everything from free advice, reading lists, worksheets, books and CD-ROMs to subscription K-12 packages.
It will also support Garmin's MapSource CD-ROMs for detailed street maps and will be compatible with topographic maps and nautical maps, like Garmin's BlueChart and Fishing Hot Spots.
It could be argued that HTC serves the enthusiast market just fine with its bootloader unlock service, which gives users the ability to load custom ROMs onto their phones.
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While the policy is likely to go unnoticed by the majority of consumers, it instantly created a great pain for those who regularly flash ROMs to their phones and tablets.
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The hype declared this: When the kinks are worked out, theaters will be able to download movies to hard drives from DVD-ROMs or digital files received via satellite or fiber-optic lines.
The folks on the Neo Geo forum wasted no time experimenting, and soon found that the handheld's Bios and game ROMs can be successfully swapped for new games or custom loaders.
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If the 295 trillion megabytes (or, exabytes) of stored information were saved on CD-ROMs, the stack of CDs would stretch from the Earth to beyond the moon, according to Hilbert and Lopez.
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus: The folks at Droid Life have put together a nice guide of some of the better ROMs available for the Galaxy Nexus that are based on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean).
From the 1980s, when computer-based education started to be delivered through CD-ROMs, e-learning has boomed, paving the way for several private players and government agencies which create and deliver e-learning systems today.
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Unfortunately, the N64 version doesn't include nearly as much commentary, because the cartridges have limited capabilities compared to CD-ROMs. But on a PlayStation or PC, you'll be treated to great commentary after every big play.
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