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- From: kirk.jensen@spacebbs.com (Kirk Jensen)
- Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
- Subject: Re: List of drives too sl
- Message-ID: <4991.1188.uupcb@spacebbs.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 09:32:00 GMT
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- Organization: SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines + 4gB - 415-323-4193
- Reply-To: kirk.jensen@spacebbs.com (Kirk Jensen)
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- BA>: Hi netters. I thought you might be interested in the list from the readme
- BA>: file on the new Sherlock Holmes II game. It says these drives are marginal
- BA>: or will not work with the game (it has video in a window that fills about
- BA>: one-fourth of the screen area):
- BA>:
- BA>: I feared the worst for the NEC 25bj that I got in the Medivision FusionCD
- BA>: kit, since it should be worse performing than the NEC 37, but I was
- BA>: pleasantly surprised: it works fine. It is interesting that new drives like
- BA>: the 461 and the NEC 37 are on the list, while the cheapest drive, the
- BA>: Mitsumi, is not. Anybody else have handson experience with this game and
- BA>: cd-rom drives, either on the above list or not?
- BA>:
- BA>The game works really well with the NEC CDR-84.
- BA>Bret Marquis
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- It runs great on the Hitachi 3700 internal.
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