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- From: Robin Hood <bx@dl.ac.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.cd32
- Subject: Re: Photo CD's
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 12:50:14 GMT
- Organization: Daresbury Lab, Warrington, U.K.
- Message-ID: <4ibp26$mkv@mserv1.dl.ac.uk>
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- Digital Arts PD Software <DigitalA@zenecaen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- >
- > In article: <4h6j9b$qlt@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> Robin Hood <bx@dl.ac.uk> writes:
- > >
- > > >>
- > > >> Is it possible to read Photo CD's on the CD32, and if so what software
- > > >> is required?
- > > >>
- > > >YES!!!
- > > >
- > > >If you have a CD32 or AMIGA CDROM then buy the NETWORK 2 CD which contains
- > > >tonnes of stuff for INTERNET, BBS, SHAREWARE etc... and includes software for
- > > >converting PHOTO CD Images, the CDROMS are the same format as NORMAL Amiga CDs,
- > >
- > > But the PHOTO CD Viewer on Network CD2 is painfully slow. It takes a few
- > > minutes
- > > to load a photo on the TV screen. Also CD32 is slow for JPG files, TIFF image
- > > is OK.
- > >
- > > Anyboday know if the PC's FLI file is same as AMIGA's FLI file. Why
- > > I could not view PC's FLI on CD32 using Network CD32 ?
- > >
- > > >you don't need to buy any crappy software... BEWARE don't buy the PHOTO CD software
- > > >that SILICA are selling, its well dodgy, a the software is around 20 and is about a
- > > >1 MEG of software on a CD.. and its CRAP!!! it was reviewed by AMIGA FORMAT and it got
- > > >something like 50 odd %...
- > >
- > >
- > >
- >
- >
- > If you live in the UK you can buy CD32 Gamer, which includes an
- > FLI viewer on its CD each month...
- >
- ON CD32 ONLY, Can you load FLI viewer, then with NoReset (as NetWork CD 2 does)
- and change to view FLI files on a PC CDROM with FLI ?
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- > FLI files are a PC format, similar to our AMIM file format, you
- > certainly can view the FLI files, but unless you have an upgraded
- > CD32 they will be pretty slow...
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- > I RECOMMEND:
- >
- > CD32 + SX1 or SX32
- > at least 4Mb Fastram
- >
- > and it should work perfick...
- >
- >
- > Nice One!!
- >
- > DARREN (THE MANCUNIAN WITH ATTITUDE)
- >
- > Digital Arts Software (Manchesters BEST PD Group on the WEB)
- > ---- http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/digiarts ---------------
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