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- Subject: Re: How to Solve the Problem of A3000 C= CD-ROM Support
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- Date: 3 Sep 92 13:04:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.162610.3329@news.iastate.edu>
- barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
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- >
- >In article <278@cbmswe.se.so.commodore.com> hjalmar@cbmswe.se.so.commodore.com (Peter Hjalmarsson Sweden) writes:
- >>In article <1992Aug23.035048.2215@sfu.ca> flui@fraser.sfu.ca (Francis Wai Gee Lui) writes:
- >>That, however is not possible. Commodore has to concentrate on areas where
- >>good third-party products is *not* available - like Amigas and operating
- >>systems. :-)
- >
- > True enough, but there are areas where Commodore could easily propel the
- >Amiga to the forefront of technology with very little development costs.
- >Amiga CD-ROM is one of them...
-
- I agree. I have an A3000/25 with only 2.04 ROM. I recently added a Pioneer
- DRM-600A. This is a $900 CDROM drive using a magazine with 6 platters. The
- developer of the CDROM driver didn't have an A3000 configured like my machine.
- Using "DiskChange" I can access any platter, but access should be transparent,
- and multitask smoothly with the rest of the operating system. If Commodore
- were truly, or sensibly, committed to CDROM, the developer wouldn't have had to
- write a driver - Commodore already would have done it. Also, I picked up the
- DiskTopLibrary from Walnut Creek. If Commodore had worked with Walnut Creek,
- the thousands of documents on the disk would have a nice GUI interface instead
- of "muchmore".
- I have access, albeit limited access, to over 3G of information via the
- Pioneer drive. A number of CDs aren't even half full. Commodore should work
- with CD publishers' to convert graphics, sounds, animations, text and interface
- programs to Amiga format. After all, the bulk of the work for data collections
- is gathering the information. Once that's done the rest is much easier.
- Let's hope Pasedena sees some action from Commodore in the CD arena.
- By the way you publishers of CDROMS turn on the "write" and the "delete"
- protect bits for the files you master to CDROM. It's a pain to use TURBOTEXT
- and not be able to edit a file because it is read only. See how much fun it is
- to copy a drawer from a CD to an HD then have to turn on the delete bits on 30
- files before you can delete them. BTW, you tricksters, don't tell me your 40
- tricks on deleting multiple files with delete bits turned off. I don't want
- to hear them. I was tricking file systems while you were probably in diapers.
- The point is: set the "write" and "delete" bits.
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