I don't know how many people know club myce (what used to be CD-Freaks) but it has been taken down.
Gone.
I used to spend a lot of time browsing the site (probably too much)
End of an era!
Ouch.... so much data and info lost! And to think I even posted there earlier this year.... 😥
Well what was the Club Myce
previously known as Discrete_BOB_058
Hard to explain, but the core was the optical disc/drives discussions.
An example page can be seen in the attached zip file.
Or... in the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20220623042837/ht … -ray-writers/45
Yes - it was oriented towards optical media. People used to discuss media brands, post scans of media, etc
Topics looked like this:
Brand X is on sale at store Y this week.....
I just got brand X at store Y and the media code is Z.....
I think it's to the point no one is using optical media anymore except (ahem) for a few die-hards
ncmark wrote on 2022-07-13, 10:50:Yes - it was oriented towards optical media. People used to discuss media brands, post scans of media, etc Topics looked like th […]
Yes - it was oriented towards optical media. People used to discuss media brands, post scans of media, etc
Topics looked like this:
Brand X is on sale at store Y this week.....
I just got brand X at store Y and the media code is Z.....
I think it's to the point no one is using optical media anymore except (ahem) for a few die-hards
And at least some these die-hards have likely stocked up on the good stuff a while back (hoping it doesn't degrade over time) and mostly use rewritable CDs and DVDs anyway these days to avoid wasting media for retro or testing purposes .
At my current rate of use, I will run out well before my stock of new-in-box, sealed Kodak, Fuji, Verbatim, etc (all from the pre-outsourcing good old days) does, unless I live to be well over 100 .
I also have some M-DISC media (DVD-R and BD-R) that I was thinking of using for important stuff (wedding/event video, etc), but I have not gotten to testing it yet .
The most important question is: Did anyone happen to make a backup or an achive of the posts?
So much information lost at the whim and caprice of a greedy company. No regard for preserving the technical nature of much data which is irreplaceable.
I've regularly visited CD Freaks in the 2000s. They had good guides on how to back up copy protected games and which burners work with which CD-Rs. I still own several high-end Plextor burners from that era.
zyzzle wrote on 2022-07-14, 04:31:The most important question is: Did anyone happen to make a backup or an achive of the posts?
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Someone did. "I took a last backup of the forum in April"
https://confusedbird.com/thread-174.html
(second post)
Not sure if he eventually made it work though, judging by the rest of post.
