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CU Amiga Magazine's Super CD-ROM 26 (1998)(EMAP Images)(GB)[!][issue 1998-09].iso
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This isn't a proper readme, just a quick note to say why the CD is
missing some files. I had included some interesting files from Dave
Haynie in the WWW directory, Dave said he was happy for them to be
included, but the copyright on them is owned by Amiga Inc. We mailed
them to OK this, but they didn't reply before the deadline, so you'll
have to wait for next month's CD... hopefully.
I know these readmes traditionally were a catalog of everything that
went wrong while creating the CDs. Don't take the lack of a readme as
a lack of problems, more likely there were so many troubles I didn't
have time to report them. But you don't want to know about that do
you? Well, seeing as you're here :)
Actually this CD went pretty smoothly, suspiciously so, I knew it was
too good to be true, everything had gone on fine, the first test CDs
booted immediately (OK not quite immediately as I was testing them on
a CD32, but in a few minutes). All the fiddly little jobs that end up
taking a lot of time were done and I still had a few hours to spare, I
was actually enjoying myself.
Only three demos left to check for contents, so I decided to burn a
final test CD to make sure booting was OK with some changes I'd made.
So I burn the CD, put it in the CD32 press reset and wait. Now I'm
used to waiting for the CD32 to boot, but this seemed to be taking a
bit too long. Into the A4000's SCSI drive, no problem with the disc.
Into the IDE drive, and it wouldn't read it properly. So I got another
blank disc out of the box, started burning again and put the kettle
on. Twenty minutes later, still no joy, no I'm getting narked.
It turned out that my last box of gold CDRs were all faulty. So I post
a CD to CU Towers anyway, and try to find a source of CDRs at 8:30 pm.
Then i remembered the demos I hadn't checked yet, I'd tested fifteen
with no problems, so these three shouldn't be any trouble. The first
was fine all the way though, only the credits to roll, then a dodgy
cartoon pops up at the end of the credits. Try the next one, that
wouldn't run at all. Third time lucky? No chance, more dodgy cartoon
animation (quite funny but totally unsuitable for the CD).
Ah well, I knew something would go wrong, I just wish these problems
would be a bit more up front and hit me more than two hours before the
post goes :(
Neil
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Neil Bothwick - CU Amiga CD Compiler & Webmaster
mailto:cucd@wirenet.co.uk - http://www.cu-amiga.co.uk