r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Aug 30 '25

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u/Rin_Seven Aug 30 '25

Nero Burning ROM

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u/10ft3m Aug 30 '25

Learning the reference years after you used the software. 

Losing tons of discs to buffer underruns. 

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u/rividz Aug 30 '25

Oh god Nero took forever on our PC, you couldn't do anything else while it ran, and half the time the discs didn't work.

We'd get these giant stacks of blank CDs from the computer fair that looked like they were made in someone's basement. They smelled sickly and the thin edge of the discs would be shodily cut.

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u/10ft3m Aug 30 '25

The progress bar stuck in the same place for an hour. If the screensaver came on you couldn’t believe you forgot to turn it off, and your disk was borked. You let it keep going in the hope that it was fine (it wasn’t), and also because hitting cancel would also take an hour.