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- From: cabr07@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ("G.N.Sinclair")
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Acorn demo CD
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.133914.9634@ccsun.strath.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 13:39:14 GMT
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- In article <721610759snx@klaatu.demon.co.uk> steve@klaatu.demon.co.uk (Steve Loft) writes:
- >I have a CD-ROM drive on my PC, but not on my Arc. Would I be able to
- >read the files off the Acorn demo CD on my PC? If so, does anyone have
- >a copy they would like to give/lend me? I would refund postage costs,
- >naturally.
-
- I tried this using a CDROM on a unix machine, then using NFS from an arc
- to read the files. The files are readable all right, but all the file type
- information is lost, and any !'s in filenames become something else.
-
- So you need to do lots of renaming, and make intelligent guesses about
- file types - which isn't really practical. I eventually gave up and
- put the CDROM directly on the arc. This gave replay running at 25fps
- with no problem. Strangely, when films were copied to an attached hard
- disc, the playback became quite jerky (in mode 28). This problem went
- away when full screen playback was used (with its lower bandwidth
- requirement). This was on an R260 running RISC OS 2.01
-
- Gordon.
-