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- ]]] TITLE: Ultimate Windows Collection #2
- ]]] PUBLISHER: Digital Expressions
- ]]] INFO Courtesy of CHKCD by Trantor:
- Volume ID: ULTIMATE2
- Creation date: 00-00-0000
- 495927198 bytes total disk space
- 394752 bytes in 25 directories
- 495532446 bytes in 1552 user files
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- Digital Expressions has put out a few BBS-Ready discs in the past, but none
- have really lit my fire regarding their quality. This one, while adequate,
- still could have been done better.
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- BBS Support is provided in two different text file formats, both of which are
- found in the file subdirectories along with the downloadable files:
- FILES.BBS (which in this case is a PCBoard format) and DIGITAL.BBS, which is
- a mutant file listing of a type I have never seen. I found no other BBS
- support on the disc. Looking at the PCBoard style listings, everything looked
- decent, but I did find an error or two in the listings... basically, a small
- amount of bad formatting. Nothing to worry about excessively... overall, the
- listing was very clean.
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- The files come in directories whose names are descriptive of what is inside
- them. Some of the directories had respectable file amounts... others had
- as little as two files and then the BBS support. I personally see that as
- simply bad planning... surely those two or three files could have been placed
- in another directory?
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- One thing that puzzles me... I know that there is a LOT more than 495 Megs
- worth of material for Windows out there. Some of the material that I
- found was from 1980 on this disc, so it's not like they could hide behind a
- "only recent files" cloak. Whats going on here?
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- This disc is rather of a half-work to me. The BBS support, while skimpy,
- can be used (or converted) by most, and the file structure (and amount)
- could really have stood some more working on. However, if these shortcomings
- don't bother you, then it will work online and probably offer your callers
- something to have fun with. I would just have to say, be prepared to move
- this one to the requestor door as soon as something better comes along.
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