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- From: Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Tandy Unveils 16-Mil
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 01:43:00
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- > Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- > From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- > Message-ID: <Bzq75n.BA8@news.iastate.edu>
- > Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- >
- > Of course. But the miraculous thing about CD-ROM is that it makes 650M of
- > read-only storage available for the manufacturing cost of a floppy disk.
-
- Wrong. 550Meg. And the manufacturing costs are comparable to floppy
- disks, since you need to press a bunch of CD's at once whereas floppies can
- be done a few at a time. Floppies are much easier to work with, aside from
- their small storage capacity.
-
- I think Commodore ought to put a 20 meg floptical on high end Amigas.
-
- > Of course. But CD-ROM can do wonders with a system that already has good
- > non-interlaced resolution and color capabilities.
-
- Which of course the Amiga doesn't have according to you..
-
- > > While I would also like to see Commodore add more CD-ROM support to the
- > >Amiga, such third-party solutions have been available for well over a year.
- >
- > True, and exactly how much CD-ROM ***SOFTWARE*** has come out of this
- > third-party CD-ROM support? Excepting CDTV titles, which I do not regard as
- > true Amiga CD-ROM software.
-
- Why not? Just because counting CDTV titles would hurt your argument that
- the Amiga has no CD-ROM support? And if you dont count CDTV, then why do
- you make points about the third party solutions not fully supporting CDTV?
-
- Look, maybe Amiga people just arent as gung ho about CD-ROM as people are
- on other systems. There ARE thrid party solutions. Perhaps Amiga users
- have their priorities in different areas and just don't care that much
- about CD-ROM. Sure, a CD-ROM drive might be kinda nifty - but there is a
- whole slew of other things I'd much rather have (large HD, floptical, AGA
- graphics, 14.4K modem, etc).
-
- > Commodore is needed to jump-start the development of Amiga CD-ROM
- > products.
- > Tell me again: exactly how many are available?
-
- If they had not made CDTV, there probably wouldnt be any Amiga CD-ROM
- software at ALL. Yes, Commodore needs to make CDTV compatible CD-ROM
- drives for the rest of the Amigas (although the current A570 DOES work with
- the largest segment of the Amiga market - the A500). It should be child's
- play to adapt the A570 to a Zorro II card; throw in the rest of the SCSI
- parts while your at it, and add 8 megs of ram sockets. I think people
- would buy that. I wonder if the SCSI-II card will have CDTV support on it?
-
- > > CD-ROM does not determine what composes the rest of the system.
- >
- > Of course it doesn't. But an extra 650M of storage for a presentation or
- > a game can sure make a difference. Take a look at the 20-disk "Star Trek
- > Twentieth Anniversary Game" for the IBM sometime, and then imagine what an
- > extra 46 times as much storage could do to the game. Or
- > imagine how good a tax
- > preparation program could be with 650M of storage to work with. (The
- > DataMax
- > people mentioned that their CD-ROM tax preparation program would have just
- > about every IRS form you could imagine already scanned in high-resolutions
- > right on the disc)
-
- I'd like to see a CD-ROM based version of Out Of This World, with AGA
- graphics and hi-res animation; or another similar type game like the sequel
- to OOTW or Flashback.
-
- > -!-
- > | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
- > -!------------------------------------------------
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