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- From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- Subject: Re: Tandy Unveils 16-Million-Color CD-ROM Multimedia system
- Message-ID: <Bzr29w.8Kt@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:05:55 GMT
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- In article <Bzqrqn.Cvo@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> franklin@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (John Franklin) writes:
- >In article <BzKqr1.JCy@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
- >>In article <BzKosp.2zF@news.iastate.edu>, barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) says most sayishly:
- >>> Tandy has finally announced their new desktop MPC-compatible computer system
- >>>with a 16-million-color display and CD-ROM drive as standard hardware.
- >>
- >>Good, go announce it in comp.sys.ibm.graphics or something.
- >>
- >>> It looks like Commodore really is going to be the last major personal
- >>>computer company to bring out a desktop computer with a CD-ROM drive. Really
- >>>pathetic.
- >>
- >>If all you can do is degrade and insult C=, what the hell are you doing
- >>here?
- >
- >Now, he does have a point, although he is a bit misinformed. C= already
- >has a CD-ROM drive that does conform to industry standards. The CD-ROM
- >doesn't come with any particular Amiga model, but then Amiga's don't have
- >a need for that much storage.
-
- This kind of lack of vision by Amiga users is why I say that the Amiga is
- no longer "the computer for the creative mind." I can think of a lot of
- applications that could be ported to the Amiga or made uniquely on the Amiga
- if the Amiga has a large base of users with AGA Amigas and CD-ROM drives.
- A port of the CD-ROM version of the "Star Trek 20th Anniversary Game" would be
- nice. A port of DataMax's CD-ROM tax preparation software would also be nice.
-
- Just be creative. It is the people who have no sense of creativity or
- innovation whatsoever who cannot imagine uses of CD-ROM technology on the
- Amiga.
-
- >IBM machines have programs that come on many disks. WordPerfect 5.1 comes
- >on 6 DD. A game a friend of mine bought recently came on 10 HD. IBMs
- >are on the verge of needing CD-ROMs just to store their programs on.
-
- How many disks does the Amiga SCALA software come on? **15**. How many
- disks does the Amiga Video Toaster software come on? **20**. Some Video
- Toaster picture libraries are being distributed on very costly removable hard
- disk packs because they consume so much storage.
-
- > If
- >an Amiga game came on that many disks, I'd expect an awful lot from it.
- >The only game that I have seen on remotely that many disks was Dragon's
- >Lair: Escape from Singe's Castle <sp?>. It was five disks, and, in
- >my opinion, a disappointment.
-
- Why was it a disappointment? IMO, it was because they hacked it down too
- much so the game would not take so much space. If the game were ported to AGA
- and enhanced, it could easily consume 20 disks.
-
- >Commodore hasn't released a computer with a CD-ROM drive because they're
- >computers don't NEED a CD-ROM drive,
-
- You are the epitomy of vision and innovation, indeed.
-
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- | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
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