Laseractive development / mastering tools

You planning to make more Video games? Convert Time Gal to the Laseractive? :lol:

As far as I was aware aren't Mega LD-ROM and PC Engine LD-ROM2 discs basically normal LD-ROM discs with a header file to tell the Laseractive what type of disc is it and boot accordingly? I assume with a PC and the correct hardware you should be able to DIR the files.

The LD-ROM format being an extention of the format Pioneer used for the MSX Laserdiscs. I could be wrong of course but I talking to some guys that had 'backed up' MSX laserdiscs and they mentioned it.

 

A Laserdisc burner? Could you elaborate? Is it CR-V (basically a huge 3,5" floppy), purplish LD-R's or something entirely different?

 

Seeing how the movie part of Laserdisc is analog, how does one burn a disc?

 

If I had to make a guess I'd say the waveform would be burned in a solid line much like a record. You could store analog audio onto a cd, you'd just have to come up with a new way to read it.

 

This article gives a good description of the encoding method used for LD. There were a couple of LD recording formats - CRVdisc, which used a caddy & then RLV, which was actually playable in normal LD players.

 

Blank RLV discs? I have about 10 of them sitting in a box, rescued them from the dump of an American museum...

 

Burners are digital as are audio CDs though. This would have to function like a VCR for dubbing because the DAC would be pretty insane for the 80s. (off topic: the signal sampled at 18MHz due to Nyquist limit at 16-bit? = 34MiB/s!)

 

They seemed to be good when I looked at them last time, 6 of them come in cardboard sleeves and are wrapped (except the one I opened) and the other 4 come in a large plastic case, again wrapped except one.

 

The laser on a laser disc player can only register a 0 or 1, the analogue signal is generated from the length of the pits.

wikipedia and google has more info

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_disc

smf