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- From: flui@fraser.sfu.ca (Francis Wai Gee Lui)
- Subject: Re: How to Solve the Problem of A3000 C= CD-ROM Support
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.224011.3208@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <278@cbmswe.se.so.commodore.com> <1992Aug25.162610.3329@news.iastate.edu> <168577F91.SBACIR2@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu>
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 22:40:11 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- In article <168577F91.SBACIR2@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu> SBACIR2@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Aug25.162610.3329@news.iastate.edu>
- >barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
- >
- >>
- >>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.
- []
-
- Good points. Can someone help me understand CBM's rationale--why is it more
- important to develop cheap CD-ROM drives for the A500, while A3000 owners are
- forced to resort to buying a third-party drive and third-party driver software,
- often separately? They would make LESS profit from development of a low-end
- product, and not having a high-end product hurts the Amiga's viability in
- key professional markets. It seems to me that CBM isn't missing the know-how
- (a credit to all those EXTREMELY competent engineers, etc.), but the sense
- to know where to apply that know-how.
-
- __ __
- / /\ /_/\__ Francis Lui
- /_/ /\\ \ \/\ e-mail: flui@sfu.ca
- \ \ / \ \ /
- \ \ \ \_\/ You know you're a techno-dweeb when
- \_\/ floppy drive applies more to your love life,
- and hard drive to your machines.
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