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From: vitas@grace.bah.rochester.ny.us (Vitas Povilaitis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews
Subject: REVIEW: VGA Spectrum CDROM disc
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Date: 13 Feb 1993 20:47:40 GMT
Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett
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Keywords: CD-ROM, graphics, sound, commercial
PRODUCT NAME
VGA Spectrum CDROM disc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
A CD-ROM disc of sound and graphics.
AUTHOR/COMPANY INFORMATION
Name: S & S Enterprises
Address: P. O. Box 552
Lemont, IL 60439
Telephone: (800) ROM-DISC
[766-3472]
LIST PRICE
Unknown
SPECIAL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
You'll need a CD-ROM drive and CD-ROM filesystem software.
COPY PROTECTION
None
MACHINE USED FOR TESTING
Amiga 2000 running OS 2.04.
GVP G-Force 40: 40 MHz 68EC030/SCSI II/12 MB RAM
15 MB total RAM
Toshiba CD-ROM drive
Xetec CD-ROM filesystem software
Since the disc is standard ISO 9660 format, it should be readable on
any CD-ROM drive under any OS revision. I have not tested this disc on a
CDTV.
REVIEW
Because it's so hard to find CD-ROM discs for the Amiga, I think
more people should review discs from other platforms to see if they are
usable with the Amiga. I'm writing this review in the hopes of encouraging
you to do the same.
The disc has been produced with the IBM PC user in mind. All the
supplied support software is for MS/DOS. Consequently, the disc is mastered
in ISO 9660 Level 1, which means that filenames are limited to MS-DOS length
(8 characters plus 3-character suffix). However, the filenames are generally
meaningful.
The disc contains about 586 MB of graphics and sound files. The
root directory contains the following sub-directories:
ANIMATE
FLI Uncompressed .fli files. I don't know how to run
these on the Amiga.
GL Uncompressed .gl files. There is at least one grasp
animation player for the Amiga
PLYR ZIP'ed MS-DOS animation players
ZIP MS-DOS self-extracting archives
CLIPART MS-DOS self-extracting archives
DEMO Contains ZIP'ed demos for MS-DOS.
UNZIP Various sub-directories containing uncompressed
programs and data. Very little of the data is
usable by the Amiga.
GAMES Contains ZIP'ed games for MS-DOS.
UNZIP Various sub-directories containing uncompressed
programs and data. Very little of the data is
usable by the Amiga
GIF Contains eight sub-directories of a variety of
unsorted GIF files of varying quality, and a
SWIMSUIT sub-directory.
MAC Contains two sub-directories of a variety of
unsorted MacPaint files.
PKWARE MS-DOS ZIP package
SOUND
CMF? Four uncompressed CMF directories. I don't know how
to handle these on the Amiga.
CMS1 One uncompressed CMS directory. I don't know how to
handle these on the Amiga.
ROL? Five uncompressed ROL directory. I don't know how to
handle these on the Amiga.
SBI1 One uncompressed SBI directory. I don't know how to
handle these on the Amiga.
TRKBLAST
Uncompressed MOD directory. Use a MOD player like
EdPlayer.
VOC1 Uncompressed VOC directory. Use a sample player
like OPlay [OmniPlay].
ZIP EXE files; probably self-extracting MS-DOS files.
TEXT Some text about the CD-ROM
UTILITY EXE files; probably self-extracting MS-DOS files
This files are of various quality and much like files you'd find
on a BBS.
The graphics files can be viewed on Amigas by many different
programs, such as ADPro. The audio files can be played by many different
sample players, such as OPlay.
DOCUMENTATION
The disc comes with no instructions.
LIKES AND DISLIKES
Its too bad that there are MS-DOS self-extracting archives on this
disc; it makes the data unportable, and unusable on the Amiga without a PC
emulator.
[MODERATOR'S NOTE: The self-extracting archives can be
extracted on the Amiga using UnZip 5.0. - Dan]
The files are of various quality like the ones you'd find on a BBS:
not the greatest, but nice to have around.
BUGS
None.
CONCLUSIONS
This is a collection of various files like you'd find on a BBS.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Copyright 1993 Vitas Povilaitis. All rights reserved.
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