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- From: ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles)
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- Subject: Re: CD Roms readable on a PC ?
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 03:52:50 GMT
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- In article <jechawke.722092383@unix2.tcd.ie> jechawke@unix2.tcd.ie (Lone Rider) writes:
- >Does anyone know if I can read a CD-Rom for the Amiga (eg FISH disks)
- >on an IBM PC ?
-
- As long as the disc uses the ISO-9660 standard, you're in good shape.
- ISO-9660 is the standard for CD-ROM discs, and such discs generally can be
- read by any platform (the Mac has a format called HFS). Asim and the other
- CD-ROM drivers for the Amiga can read ISO-9660 discs, as can the Microsoft
- CD-ROM driver, MSCDEX.
- To give you a better idea of how standardized ISO-9660 really is, I can
- take a CD for the Sega-CD we burn at work and list the files on a 386SX/20
- I have at my desk using the standard Microsoft driver MSCDEX.
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- Gregg Giles (Dynamix, Inc.) Willy Beamish Development Team
- All opinions expressed are my own. (MS-DOS CD-ROM, Sega-CD)
- ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu, BIX: ggiles Author of DiskInfo, ZSound
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