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=== BBS Ready CD-ROM REVIEW - ARSENAL COMPUTER ===
=== 3721 SW Plaza Drive, Topeka, KS 66609-2002 ===
=== VOICE (913) 267-7667 FAX (913) 267-6050 BBS (913) 234-9395 ===
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(c) Arsenal Computer 1996
Permission is granted to republish this review electronically via any
"online" method, including CD-ROM, so long as it is not altered in any
way, shape or form. Other permissions, such as newspaper reprints,
please contact Dave Clark for written permission.
The Following is a CD-ROM "review." The opinions expressed belong
solely to Dave Clark, Sysop of Arsenal Computer BBS.
]]] TITLE: Asian Pearls 2
]]] PUBLISHER: Taipan Productions
]]] INFO Courtesy of CHKCD from Trantor:
Volume ID: ASIAN_II
Creation date: 10-22-1995
612516841 bytes total disk space
727552 bytes in 27 directories
611789289 bytes in 2871 user files
I just got a copy of this disc in, and started playing with it. The nice
little blurb "BBS Ready" on the front got my attention, and I knew that it
was time to play... (smile!) However, looking at this disc, was like a
time tunnel trip.. back into the bad old days when publishers both took
anything that they could get to put on a disc, and then threw together
a vague collection of text and called it "BBS Ready". Threw together
may actually be nice in this case.. these are some of the _worst_ formatted
file listings that I've ever seen!
The BBS support (using the term loosely here) that was on the disc came from
files named FILES.BBS, located in the sub-directories where the files are
located. The List consisted of a file name, a size (for example, 363k) and
then the descriptions. That sounds reasonable, right? It would have been,
had they stuck to a single pattern as to where each element went. Looking
from page to page, you would see the thing vary wildly... and then you might
also have to content with file description lines that ran way beyond the 80
column right hand side. Arrggh!
The images are in standard .GIF format, and honestly appear to be a rather
standard collection of BBS scans. Because of this, it's quite likely that
you will find a good number of these images on older titles floating around
there. The images are definately XXX rated, with a lot of hardcore material
in them.
As per our usual treatment, we will have EZRom/SFRom setups and file listings
available for download on our board. Because these are adult file listings,
they are NOT available to the first time caller. You will need a Adult
Customer access on our board in order to retrieve these files from us.
This access is available to anyone that purchases an adult title from us.
Otherwise, sorry guys... (grin!) We _do_ give away the shareware configs...
but in this age of litigation, we have to play it a bit more tight with the
adult stuff. The file listing name will be 2APEARL2.ZIP.
Overall impression? Well, this is definately a time warp here... back to
the days that a lot of us would rather forget, I think. The file listings
basically suck rocks, and the images are retreads. If it's something that
you gotta have, then you gotta have it... if not, you might want to wait
for something better to come along.