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- From: bam@Bang.UUCP (Bret A. Marquis)
- Subject: Re: List of drives too slow for Sherlock Holmes II
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.012154.19224@Bang.UUCP>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 01:21:54 GMT
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- david cole (dcole@ua.d.umn.edu) wrote:
- :
- : Hi netters. I thought you might be interested in the list from the readme
- : file on the new Sherlock Holmes II game. It says these drives are marginal
- : or will not work with the game (it has video in a window that fills about
- : one-fourth of the screen area):
- :
- : I feared the worst for the NEC 25bj that I got in the Medivision FusionCD
- : kit, since it should be worse performing than the NEC 37, but I was
- : pleasantly surprised: it works fine. It is interesting that new drives like
- : the 461 and the NEC 37 are on the list, while the cheapest drive, the
- : Mitsumi, is not. Anybody else have handson experience with this game and
- : cd-rom drives, either on the above list or not?
- :
- The game works really well with the NEC CDR-84.
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- Bret Marquis
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