When I develop multimedia CD-ROM titles, I have to make sure they can be played on various configurations (including CD-ROM drive speed). The minimum requirement is double speed CD-ROM drive. Frequently, my director movies and quicktime movies look fine in my hard disk, but after I put them in a CD-R, they donﾕt. Their ﾔaverageﾕ data rates are below 300K, but they are not constant. So I adjust my movies then make another CD-R. Unfortunately CD-R is not cheap......
Thatﾕs why I write CDRead. It slows down the speed of loading file from hard disk (actually from anywhere; network volume, MO and CD-ROM! ). So I can test my movies easily, and save my time and money.
CDRead is very simple and easy to use. Just put it in System Folder:Control Panel, set the maximum data rate you want then turn it on and restart your Mac. Please notice that the data rate you set is just an approximate value.
CDRead is NOT accelerated for Power Mac because itﾕs purpose is to slow down the speed. So remember to turn it off when you are not testing.
System requirement:
68020 or later (including Power Mac)
System 7.0 or later
If you have any questions, comments or bug reports, you can contact me at johnny@hk.super.net.
If you like it and use it, please register.
CDRead has the following pricing (including unlimited updates).
1 - 19 single user licenses, $10 per user
A Site License costs $200 and covers all locations for your organization within a 160 kilometer radius of your site (100 miles). One big advantage of a Site License is that you do not need to keep track of how many people at your site are using the software.
A World-Wide License costs $1000 and it covers all locations for your organization on the planet earth.
Paying for CDRead is fairly simple. Open the Register program that accompanies CDRead. Enter your name, your email address, and the number of single user licenses you desire for each program you wish to purchase (or Site or Word-Wide licenses). Save or Copy or Print the data from the Register program and send the data and payment to Kagi Shareware. More specifics on the Register program to follow. Kagi Shareware handles my payment processing.
If paying with Credit Card or First Virtual, you can email or fax the data to Kagi Shareware. Their email address is shareware@kagi.com and their fax number is +1 510 652-6589. You can either Copy the data from Register and paste into the body of an email message or you can Save the data to a file and you can attach that file to an email message. There is no need to compress the data file, it's already pretty small. If you have a fax modem, just Print the data to the Kagi fax number.
Payments sent via email are processed within 3 to 4 days. You will receive an email acknowledgment when it is processed. Payments sent via fax take up to 10 days and if you provide a correct internet email address you will receive an email acknowledgment.
If you are paying with Cash or USD Check you should print the data using the Register application and send it to the address shown on the form, which is:
Kagi Shareware
1442-A Walnut Street #392-LJ
Berkeley, California 94709-1405
USA
You can pay with a wide variety of cash from different countries but at present if you pay via check, it must be a check drawn in US Dollars. Kagi Shareware cannot accept checks in other currencies, the conversion rate for non-USD checks is around USD 15 per check and that is just not practical.
If you have a purchasing department, you can enter all the data into the Register program and then select Invoice as your payment method. Print three copies of the form and send it to your accounts payable people. You might want to highlight the line that mentions that they must include a copy of the form with their payment.
Kagi Shareware can not invoice your company, you need to act on my behalf and generate the invoice and handle all the paperwork on your end.
Please do not fax or email payment forms that indicate Cash, Check or Invoice as the payment method. As far as we know, there is still no technology to transfer physical objects via fax or email and without the payment, the form cannot be processed.
Payments send via postal mail take time to reach Kagi Shareware and then up to 10 days for processing. Again, if you include a correct email address, you will hear from Kagi Shareware when the form is processed.
