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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.
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- The Following is a CD-ROM "review." The opinions expressed belong
- solely to Dave Clark, Sysop of Arsenal Computer BBS.
-
- ]]] TITLE: Southern Beauties 2
- ]]] PUBLISHER: Blaine Richards III
- ]]] INFO Courtesy of CHKCD from Trantor:
- Volume ID: SBII
- Creation date: 00-00-0000
- 329618340 bytes total disk space
- 527616 bytes in 36 directories
- 329090724 bytes in 2065 user files
-
- To be honest, when I first got this disc, I wasn't expecting too much for
- the SysOp. The Previous installment of the series, Southern Beauties 1,
- had nice images, but a very sparse BBS readiness, and a terrible albatross
- around it's neck: The publisher had decided that in order for us poor SysOps
- to run the disc online, that we had to pay them a fee to do so! This was in
- addition to whatever you paid for it, and it was based (as I recall)
- on the number of nodes that you ran. Personally, I wouldn't even recommend
- the title to SysOps, simply because of this. I don't want to sell them a
- title that they have to pay more to use, and I don't wish to advocate them
- to disrespect the copyright on the disc. Wisely, this disc DOESN'T have any
- silly BBS-usage fee. Thank you!
-
- The file listings are in a rather typical "FILES.BBS" format, that gives you
- the filename, a "[0]" and the descriptions. Each of the three elements are
- separated by a space. This listing, while not what I like, can at least be
- easily converted into something useful. The listing content is acutally
- pretty good. It's not multiline, but at least it's descriptive. Some effort
- went into the production, just not enough to make me entirely happy... (smile!)
-
- The images on the disc are definetly hardcore. Overall, the images are of a
- pretty good quality, with only small copyright notices on them. Something that
- both I and a couple of other people playing with the disc noticed, is that in
- a good percentage of the photos, the featured women have tattoos. And, of
- those women having tattoos, the two most prevalent places were on the left
- breast and on the ankle. OK, what's the deal... did they have a special at
- the tattoo parlor that day? Sheesh! I'm almost surprised that they didn't
- sub-title this disc "Tattooed Ladies" or something similar. It would certainly
- fit. Each image was on the disc twice... once in .GIF format, and once in
- .JPG format.
-
- The sub-directory layout is a bit strange here... we have all the .GIF
- directories in one sub-directory deep, and all the .JPG directories in two
- sub-directories deep, branching off of the .GIF directories. While
- relatively easy to follow, I would have preferred them all to be only one
- sub-directory deep. The most annoying thing is that that .JPG directories
- were NOT named the same on all of them.. some were JPG, and some were JPEG.
- This plays merry hell when you are attempting to write a config for this
- disc. Very Very Annoying.
-
- Regarding the file listings, you have a couple of choices: You can either
- beat them into shape yourself, or call our BBS and download the file
- 2SBEAUT2.ZIP. That's our EZRom/SFRom config file in PCBoard file listing
- format. Of course, being that these are adult file listings, they will NOT
- be available to the first time caller. You will need an Arsenal Access level
- of "30 - Customer" to get to those listings. If you purchase an adult CD-ROM
- from us, then you get a code that will give you access to that level.
- Sorry, people, but while we can give the shareware CD-ROM listings away to
- the first time callers, giving away the adult listings could get us into
- a little hot water.
-
- Overall impression? Well, despite it's shortcomings in file listing variety
- and in the sometimes sloppy execution, the disc is acutually pretty good.
- It's legal for BBS usage, it has no fees to use it beyond your purchase
- price, and the images, while a bit "painted" (i.e. tattooed) are nice.
- Overall, I think that this one, with appropriate work, will make a good
- BBS-Ready CD-ROM.
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