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- From: vitas@grace.bah.rochester.ny.us (Vitas Povilaitis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews
- Subject: REVIEW: VGA Spectrum CDROM disc
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
- Date: 13 Feb 1993 20:47:40 GMT
- Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett
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- Keywords: CD-ROM, graphics, sound, commercial
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- PRODUCT NAME
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- VGA Spectrum CDROM disc
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- BRIEF DESCRIPTION
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- A CD-ROM disc of sound and graphics.
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- AUTHOR/COMPANY INFORMATION
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- Name: S & S Enterprises
- Address: P. O. Box 552
- Lemont, IL 60439
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- Telephone: (800) ROM-DISC
- [766-3472]
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- LIST PRICE
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- Unknown
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- SPECIAL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
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- You'll need a CD-ROM drive and CD-ROM filesystem software.
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- COPY PROTECTION
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- None
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- MACHINE USED FOR TESTING
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- Amiga 2000 running OS 2.04.
- GVP G-Force 40: 40 MHz 68EC030/SCSI II/12 MB RAM
- 15 MB total RAM
- Toshiba CD-ROM drive
- Xetec CD-ROM filesystem software
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- Since the disc is standard ISO 9660 format, it should be readable on
- any CD-ROM drive under any OS revision. I have not tested this disc on a
- CDTV.
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- REVIEW
-
- Because it's so hard to find CD-ROM discs for the Amiga, I think
- more people should review discs from other platforms to see if they are
- usable with the Amiga. I'm writing this review in the hopes of encouraging
- you to do the same.
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- The disc has been produced with the IBM PC user in mind. All the
- supplied support software is for MS/DOS. Consequently, the disc is mastered
- in ISO 9660 Level 1, which means that filenames are limited to MS-DOS length
- (8 characters plus 3-character suffix). However, the filenames are generally
- meaningful.
-
- The disc contains about 586 MB of graphics and sound files. The
- root directory contains the following sub-directories:
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- ANIMATE
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- FLI Uncompressed .fli files. I don't know how to run
- these on the Amiga.
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- GL Uncompressed .gl files. There is at least one grasp
- animation player for the Amiga
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- PLYR ZIP'ed MS-DOS animation players
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- ZIP MS-DOS self-extracting archives
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- CLIPART MS-DOS self-extracting archives
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- DEMO Contains ZIP'ed demos for MS-DOS.
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- UNZIP Various sub-directories containing uncompressed
- programs and data. Very little of the data is
- usable by the Amiga.
-
- GAMES Contains ZIP'ed games for MS-DOS.
-
- UNZIP Various sub-directories containing uncompressed
- programs and data. Very little of the data is
- usable by the Amiga
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- GIF Contains eight sub-directories of a variety of
- unsorted GIF files of varying quality, and a
- SWIMSUIT sub-directory.
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- MAC Contains two sub-directories of a variety of
- unsorted MacPaint files.
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- PKWARE MS-DOS ZIP package
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- SOUND
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- CMF? Four uncompressed CMF directories. I don't know how
- to handle these on the Amiga.
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- CMS1 One uncompressed CMS directory. I don't know how to
- handle these on the Amiga.
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- ROL? Five uncompressed ROL directory. I don't know how to
- handle these on the Amiga.
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- SBI1 One uncompressed SBI directory. I don't know how to
- handle these on the Amiga.
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- TRKBLAST
- Uncompressed MOD directory. Use a MOD player like
- EdPlayer.
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- VOC1 Uncompressed VOC directory. Use a sample player
- like OPlay [OmniPlay].
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- ZIP EXE files; probably self-extracting MS-DOS files.
-
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- TEXT Some text about the CD-ROM
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- UTILITY EXE files; probably self-extracting MS-DOS files
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- This files are of various quality and much like files you'd find
- on a BBS.
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- The graphics files can be viewed on Amigas by many different
- programs, such as ADPro. The audio files can be played by many different
- sample players, such as OPlay.
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- DOCUMENTATION
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- The disc comes with no instructions.
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- LIKES AND DISLIKES
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- Its too bad that there are MS-DOS self-extracting archives on this
- disc; it makes the data unportable, and unusable on the Amiga without a PC
- emulator.
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- [MODERATOR'S NOTE: The self-extracting archives can be
- extracted on the Amiga using UnZip 5.0. - Dan]
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- The files are of various quality like the ones you'd find on a BBS:
- not the greatest, but nice to have around.
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- BUGS
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- None.
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- CONCLUSIONS
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- This is a collection of various files like you'd find on a BBS.
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- COPYRIGHT NOTICE
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- Copyright 1993 Vitas Povilaitis. All rights reserved.
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