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- From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Tandy Unveils 16-Million-Color CD-ROM Multimedia system
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.163310.14334@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 16:33:10 GMT
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- In <72408@cup.portal.com> Tom_-_Obszanski@cup.portal.com writes:
- >I strongly disagree with the statement that the Amiga doesn't need a CD-ROM
- >drive. More collections of images and text are becoming available on CD-ROM
- >(as mentioned in some text I deleted) and we need access to them, just as
- >any MAC or MS-DOS/Windows machine has - there's an awfully large amount of
- >good raw data out there for us to use. Secondly, PhotoCD from Kodak appears
- >to require a CD-ROM drive if you want to get the images into a computer,
- >including the Amiga (without having to hook a PhotoCD player up to a
- >frame-grabber, a dumb solution IMHO).
-
- Exactly. And that is possible _now_. Accesing the 'awfully large amount of
- good raw data' is not a problem with one of the available ISO filesystems
- and a standard SCSI CD-ROM. At least AsimCDFS supports the Mac filesystem (HFS)
- too.
-
- What you do not get is some smart retrieval software and you may need to convert
- the data to a format that an Amiga program understands. There are also databases
- in proprietary formats that come with machine specific retrieval software which
- you can't use either.
-
- Regards,
- --
- Michael van Elst
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