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- From: ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD-ROM
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 20:36:20 GMT
- Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
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- In article <Bzu958.DvD@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >
- > There are also the usual problems with manufacturing floppies to be taken
- >into consideration as well. The magnetic media of floppies is more prone to
- >developing read/write errors before the disk leaves the duplicators, or
- >during shipment.
-
- And CD-ROM discs are prone to being scratched, either before or after they
- leave the duplicators. Every media has inherent problems, and CD-ROM is no
- different.
-
- >>Look, maybe Amiga people just arent as gung ho about CD-ROM as people are
- >>on other systems.
-
- Contrary to media hype, nobody really cares about CD-ROM. The clone market
- is still entrenched in the 5.25" floppy disk market. Nevermind CD-ROM. By
- the end of 1994 (if it continues at this rate), the Sega-CD unit will have an
- installed user-base greater than all MS-DOS CD-ROMs (which is currently said
- to be around 900,000 - a paltry number at best).
-
- >The future is CD-ROM,
- >period.
-
- In the near-term, CD-ROM will be a solution to ever-increasing game sizes.
- Productivity software will never lead the way in making CD-ROM widely
- accepted - they simply don't use that much storage (example: Willy Beamish
- CD-ROM used approximately 150MB of storage space).
- But as for CD-ROM being THE future, that's bologna. Sheer marketing hype.
- CD-ROM is nothing more than a short-term solution to a long-term problem.
- CD-ROM is expensive, both in terms of development (ie: burners) and also to
- the consumer (ie: $400-500 just to hear a game talk to them). It is not the
- answer to all of our problems. It is a current solution to those who are
- willing to pay for it, but take over the world it will not.
-
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- Gregg Giles (Dynamix, Inc.) "Infinite Laser Dog" Development Team
- All opinions expressed are my own. ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu, BIX: ggiles
- Willy Beamish (MS-DOS CD-ROM, Sega-CD), Space Quest V (MS-DOS), A10 1.5 (Amiga)
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