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- From: alexanderw@cber.cber.fda.gov (Bill Alexander)
- Subject: Re: Cu Amiga Cov.Disk
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- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 15:16:46 GMT
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- >> On 09-Apr-96 18:02:20, Mat Bettinson said about Re: Cu Amiga Cov.Disk:
- >> >Sourcing material for a CD is not easy and it's just not feasible to do it
- >> >very regularly.
- >>
- >> It's perfectly possible to just
- >> put all the the stuff that would have gone onto the coverdisks onto the CD,
- >> even if it only fills to 3-5 megs.
- >[snip]
- >> Just a though. Anyone care to comment?
- >
- >Even if the CD's contain no more "material" but instead just gave you the stuff
- >un-compressed and ready-installed, it would be a big step up from having to
- >hunt down 4 blank floppies and decompressing it all every time you get a new
- >mag (a lot of coverdisks are supplied as DMS files, so you can't even
- >decompress straight to HD).
- >
- >Kev.
-
- "un-compressed and ready-installed"...Now this is what I'm after. You don't
- have to pack the whole disk for me. I don't have enough TIME to use my
- Amiga as it is so I hate wasting it decompressing from CDROMs.
-
- Now just get some North American magazine shops to carry the CDROM version
- of CU Amiga. Also put out one month with only a CDROM to persuade more
- people to buy a CD drive.
- Regards,
-
- Bill Alexander
- alexanderw@cber.cber.fda.gov
-
- "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981
-