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- From: franklin@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (John Franklin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Tandy Unveils 16-Million-Color CD-ROM Multimedia system
- Message-ID: <Bzqrqn.Cvo@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 02:18:22 GMT
- References: <BzKosp.2zF@news.iastate.edu> <BzKqr1.JCy@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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- In article <BzKqr1.JCy@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
- >In article <BzKosp.2zF@news.iastate.edu>, barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) says most sayishly:
- >> Tandy has finally announced their new desktop MPC-compatible computer system
- >>with a 16-million-color display and CD-ROM drive as standard hardware.
- >
- >Good, go announce it in comp.sys.ibm.graphics or something.
- >
- >> It looks like Commodore really is going to be the last major personal
- >>computer company to bring out a desktop computer with a CD-ROM drive. Really
- >>pathetic.
- >
- >If all you can do is degrade and insult C=, what the hell are you doing
- >here?
-
- Now, he does have a point, although he is a bit misinformed. C= already
- has a CD-ROM drive that does conform to industry standards. The CD-ROM
- doesn't come with any particular Amiga model, but then Amiga's don't have
- a need for that much storage. Yes, you can get CD-ROMs with a bazillion
- gifs on it, or an encyclopedia, or every Fred Fish disk. The last one
- is the only really useful one that I can think of.
-
- IBM machines have programs that come on many disks. WordPerfect 5.1 comes
- on 6 DD. A game a friend of mine bought recently came on 10 HD. IBMs
- are on the verge of needing CD-ROMs just to store their programs on. If
- an Amiga game came on that many disks, I'd expect an awful lot from it.
- The only game that I have seen on remotely that many disks was Dragon's
- Lair: Escape from Singe's Castle <sp?>. It was five disks, and, in
- my opinion, a disappointment.
-
- Commodore hasn't released a computer with a CD-ROM drive because they're
- computers don't NEED a CD-ROM drive, but that doesn't mean that they
- don't OFFER one.
-
- jf
- --
- John Franklin
- franklin@csugrad.cs.vt.edu
- franklin@elfie.async.vt.edu
-