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- From: James_Hastings-Trew@telepro.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
- Subject: Re: How to Solve the Problem of A3000 C= CD-ROM Support
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <James_Hastings-Trew.0ijg@telepro.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 16:16:16 CST
- Organization: TelePro Technologies
- Lines: 52
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- In a message dated Sat 22 Aug 92 15:36, Barrett@iastate.edu (marc N Barrett
- wrote:
-
- BNB> This kind of support from IBM is the straw that broke the
- BNB> cammel's back.
- BNB> I am sick and tired of seeing so much CD-ROM support from IBM,
- BNB> Apple, and
- BNB> other companies, and absolutely none whatsoever from Commodore.
-
- You can buy a CD ROM drive and appropriate driver software for your Amiga,
- right now. What is your point, exactly?
-
- BNB> Apple is
- BNB> getting ready to introduce several Macintosh systems in a month or
- BNB> so that
- BNB> have built-in CD-ROM drives, and all we get from Commodore is the
- BNB> standalone,
-
- And there is no evidence to indicate that these offerings from IBM and
- Apple will be successful. It is pointless to try to use the educational
- market to boost sales - that is a no-win situation with taxpayers having it
- up to here (indicating a point well over my head) with expensive
- educational programs that produce children that cannot read. CD-ROM
- multi-media presentations make for great TV commercials, but the reality
- out in the educational field is quite different. For an eye-opener, I
- suggest you take a gander at this month's MacWorld cover story on the sorry
- state of computer education.
-
- BNB> modified; the
- BNB> rest of the OS is the standard 512K 2.04 ROM. What I propose is
- BNB> getting a
- BNB> dump of the 2.04-compatible 256K CDTV ROM into the hands of one of
- BNB> the bigger
- BNB> European cracking groups, with the challenge that they develop a
- BNB> software-only
- BNB> package that would allow A2000 and A3000 systems with a capable SCSI
- BNB> CD-ROM
-
- I doubt that you are serious about this. One wonders though, why you used
- the term "European Cracking Groups." Is there something about them that
- makes you think that they are somehow better programmers that the engineers
- at Commodore? There is nothing about the code that these people produce
- that makes me want to pollute my computer system with it.
-
- BNB> drive to run CDTV software. After all, if Commodore will not
- BNB> support us,
- BNB> why should we continue to support them by remaining loyal to them?
-
- Adherence to copyright laws is not optional.
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