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- Path: sparky!uunet!tension!shogun
- From: shogun@tension.UUCP (Jay Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Tandy Unveils 16-Million-Color CD-ROM Multimedia system
- References: <BzuMFo.JnI@news.iastate.edu>
- Message-ID: <shogun.09qt@tension.UUCP>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 09:32:49 EST
- Organization: High Tension BBS
- Lines: 62
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- In article <BzuMFo.JnI@news.iastate.edu>, barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- writes:
- >In article <72408@cup.portal.com> Tom_-_Obszanski@cup.portal.com writes:
- >>>Commodore hasn't released a computer with a CD-ROM drive because they're
- >>>computers don't NEED a CD-ROM drive, but that doesn't mean that they
- >>>don't OFFER one.
- >>>
- >>>jf
- >>>--
- >>>John Franklin
- >>>franklin@csugrad.cs.vt.edu
- >>>franklin@elfie.async.vt.edu
- >>>
- >>
- >>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).
- >
- > I agree that that would be a very dumb solution. But it sounds like
- >something Commodore would try to do to provide "Photo CD" support for the
- >Amiga. A few weeks ago Commodore tried solving the problem of no Amiga
- >CD-ROM drives from Commodore by pushing this hack that involved connecting
- >a CDTV to an A3000 with a parallel cable. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
- >
- >>Fortunately, we don't have to wait for Commodore to come out with a CD-ROM
- >>drive for the Amiga. There's a large number of drives that can be connected
- >>directly to your SCSI bus, and all you need to get them to work are the
- >>device drivers in the form of CD-ROM-FS, or other available package. So
- >>basically, quit whining, buy a NEC, Sony, Toshiba, Chinon, or whatever kind
- >>of drive you want, as long as it's supported by your CD-ROM drivers. That's
- >>what I'll be doing in a little while. BTW, the newest Pioneer CD-ROM
- >>changer (with it's quadruple speed mode) works great on an Amiga 3000, I've
- >>seen it done.
- >
- > Unfortunately, there is very little you can actually do with an Amiga and
- >a CD-ROM drive right now. Sure, you can buy the NASA discs and view lots of
- >pictures, but this amounts to little more than a slideshow. There is very
- >little interaction with something like this. And discs with static pictures
- >or static data are the only ones that are usable on an Amiga. None of the
- >interactive CD-ROM products written for CD-I, Mac, or IBM are usable on an
- >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.
- >
- >---
- >| Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
- >--------------------------------------------------
- Marc, there are CDROMs out there in Amiga format. Just lookin your AC's Guide.
- It has 5 pages devoted to CDTV format CDROMs. Get yer head outa the sand!
- There are even ports from the DOS/Mac world (e.g. Sherlock Holms).
- Jay Brown
-
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- IBM MAKES IT IN BULK...MACINTOSH MAKES IT POPULAR, BUT ONLY AMIGA MAKES IT
- POSSIBLE.
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