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- From: hrallen@bgnet.bgsu.edu (Royce Allen Hunt)
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- Subject: MINI-REVIEW: AsimCDFS 3.5
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- Date: 8 Apr 1996 00:51:46 GMT
- Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett
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- Keywords: CDROM, filesystem, driver, multimedia, commercial
- X-Review-Number: Volume 1996 Number 10
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- Do You CD Light?
- A Review of AsimCDFS 3.5
-
- If you are thinking of joining the world of CD-ROM storage, multimedia,
- and games, then this is a product worth looking into. AsimCDFS covers
- about anything you would ever need from a filesystem and CD utilities for
- the Amiga.
-
- Of the advantages of the product:
- 1. Support- pick almost any CDROM drive and any SCSI controller, and
- you will have a working drive. (This includes rewritable CDROM)
- 2. Ability to "rewrite" files to the hard disk buffer. This is
- not mentioned in the manual, but I have been able to do it.
- 3. AsimTunes- One of the best audio CD players around, although
- it is a bit ugly. It has an extensive library, and a
- customizable screen (it can even be placed on custom screens or the
- Workbench) Depending on your CD-ROM drive and your SCSI, you
- can even output your audio through the Amiga.
- 4. PhotoCD and Corel Disk compatability. As I have not used photo
- CD's, I will not review this feature. 8(
- 5. Mountable RAW sector
- 6. CDTV/CD32 emulation
-
- Disadvantages (these are the problems that I personally have had)
- 1. Full support for CDROMS and SCSI cards. This is a hard task
- and I commend the programmers for the long list of drives and SCSI
- that they have supported. However, when I changed SCSI cards from a
- Dataflyer to an Octagon, I lost support for CD32 games. This bugged
- me because I needed an autobooting SCSI in order to play some CD32
- games (Dataflyer is not autobooting).
- 2. A nicer interface for the AsimTunes utility. Asimware has
- started to make it look better by replacing the "word" button for
- eject with a "symbol" button, but what about the other buttons for
- play/pause, stop, etc? Also, why doesn't fast forward work
- with my CDROM drive (Sanyo CRD254S)?
-
- In comparison to other CDROM filesystems... I have only used the CDFS for
- the CD32/OS3.1... AsimCDFS is excellent. I hope that the programmers for
- AT Gmbh take note when they integrate CDROM into the new OS.
-
- AsimCDFS 3.5
- made by Asimware Innovations Inc
- 600 Upper Wellington St
- Hamilton, Ontario
- Canada L9A 3P9
- (905)578-4916
-
- -Royce Hunt <hrallen@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
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