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- From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- Subject: Re: Tandy Unveils 16-Million-Color CD-ROM Multimedia system
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <72408@cup.portal.com> <BzuMFo.JnI@news.iastate.edu> <1992Dec26.163903.14404@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 21:30:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec26.163903.14404@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
- >In <BzuMFo.JnI@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >>Amiga. These discs have the data in a custom format, which would require
- >>ports to the Amiga of large amounts of software or even parts of operating
- >>systems to use this data. And discs like these make up the bulk of CD-ROM
- >>discs that are available.
- >
- >A quick look through the CD-ROM catalog in the local bookstore proves this
- >wrong. While there is a large number of disks in proprietary formats most
- >disks hold files in standard formats using either the ISO or Mac HFS filesystem.
-
- I am not making myself clear here. Just because the data on a disc is
- accessable by an Amiga CD-ROM drive, does not mean that an Amiga could do
- anything with that data. For instance, you might have a CD-ROM disc in
- ISO format which contains data for an interactive hypertext reader on the
- disc. You would not be able to do anything with the data, even if the format
- was technically readable by an Amiga.
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- | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
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