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Path: rcfnews.cs.umass.edu!barrett
From: hrallen@bgnet.bgsu.edu (Royce Allen Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews
Subject: MINI-REVIEW: AsimCDFS 3.5
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Date: 8 Apr 1996 00:51:46 GMT
Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett
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Keywords: CDROM, filesystem, driver, multimedia, commercial
X-Review-Number: Volume 1996 Number 10
Originator: barrett@knots.cs.umass.edu
Do You CD Light?
A Review of AsimCDFS 3.5
If you are thinking of joining the world of CD-ROM storage, multimedia,
and games, then this is a product worth looking into. AsimCDFS covers
about anything you would ever need from a filesystem and CD utilities for
the Amiga.
Of the advantages of the product:
1. Support- pick almost any CDROM drive and any SCSI controller, and
you will have a working drive. (This includes rewritable CDROM)
2. Ability to "rewrite" files to the hard disk buffer. This is
not mentioned in the manual, but I have been able to do it.
3. AsimTunes- One of the best audio CD players around, although
it is a bit ugly. It has an extensive library, and a
customizable screen (it can even be placed on custom screens or the
Workbench) Depending on your CD-ROM drive and your SCSI, you
can even output your audio through the Amiga.
4. PhotoCD and Corel Disk compatability. As I have not used photo
CD's, I will not review this feature. 8(
5. Mountable RAW sector
6. CDTV/CD32 emulation
Disadvantages (these are the problems that I personally have had)
1. Full support for CDROMS and SCSI cards. This is a hard task
and I commend the programmers for the long list of drives and SCSI
that they have supported. However, when I changed SCSI cards from a
Dataflyer to an Octagon, I lost support for CD32 games. This bugged
me because I needed an autobooting SCSI in order to play some CD32
games (Dataflyer is not autobooting).
2. A nicer interface for the AsimTunes utility. Asimware has
started to make it look better by replacing the "word" button for
eject with a "symbol" button, but what about the other buttons for
play/pause, stop, etc? Also, why doesn't fast forward work
with my CDROM drive (Sanyo CRD254S)?
In comparison to other CDROM filesystems... I have only used the CDFS for
the CD32/OS3.1... AsimCDFS is excellent. I hope that the programmers for
AT Gmbh take note when they integrate CDROM into the new OS.
AsimCDFS 3.5
made by Asimware Innovations Inc
600 Upper Wellington St
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L9A 3P9
(905)578-4916
-Royce Hunt <hrallen@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
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