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You get hardware cacheing on a SCSI drive; it's just built into the drive as it should be, and is different for each maker/design. A software cache is always a good idea if it doesn't cause more problems than it solves, since it speeds up all graphics-intensive activities as well.…
Never heard of CD GEN, but I note that Pinnacle's new recorder is under five grand and allegedly has not only red book (and the rest) support but also audio outputs. Haven't seen it, though, just reviews. I would suspect that most recorders out there are cranking out beta copies…
Good old rule of thumb: only the top of each line does "everything possible today" (which means this week). NEC, Texel, and Toshiba all make such drives. What you want to look for without getting technical is if they claim they are XA and Kodak compatible and if they run…
You don't need that kind of hardware cache with SCSI drives. The throughput is amazingly fast without that nonsense in the way. If you use the on-board BIOS chip there is no memory penalty; the BIOS essentially makes the connection but runs off the board on boot up. The manager,…
Well, I'd love to have a Philips recorder myself, so if you could spring for that the logical thing to do would be to just hang a stock CD ROM on the SCSI chain and use it for playback tests. Okay, you'll have to remove the disk from the Philips…
Glad I could. Shows what I remember. I thought it was 2.22….
The big problem with SCSI on the PC side was a total lack of standards, so it might as well not have been SCSI at all–proprietary drivers drove proprietary cards. Corel changed that by coming out with CorelSCSI, a software solution based on the ASPI standard originally developed by Adaptec…
So far I've heard varying theories as to why it's slower off the PAS, but the only thing I can say for sure is that every time I've tried it both ways it holds up. I do give MediaVision credit, though, for providing a standard SCSI port at all, which…
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Okay, as I currently have a SCSI-based EISA system with not one but two, count 'em TWO, SCSI-2 EISA controllers installed, I think I can answer your questions here. 16 bit is always better than 8 bit because it doubles the data path. It won't make your CD ROM work…
I don't think CL is licensed by MS to sell that disk separately, but I've seen several similar multimedia upgrade CDs. Sure makes adding a new driver or changing one thing a lot simpler, doesn't it? What I'd like to see is MicroSoft simply offer WIN31 on CD ROM for…
Yes, I write science fiction for a living (see Lynne's comments earlier in this section). The Windows on CDR was from a beta test I participated in. It's great and I wish MS would offer it commercially. You need to save your GRP and INI files. On the other hand,…
I've done more rewrite since going to computers than before (the first DANCING GODS book was not done on computer). I don't do version rewrites–what you see is essentially first draft. However, I DO revise individual sections, passages, etc. Often the more complex books are actually written out of order,…
MicroSoft says you can use the new MSCDEX with DOS5. It fixes the bug that did not allow MSCDEX to work properly if loaded high (or so they say).
Yes, it does, but at least some PAS16s require the use of no IRQ higher than 10 if you want that SoundBlaster support enabled. Don't ask me why. Mine's one of 'em.
ECHOES is all over now. Depends on geography, though; trade pbs are shipped from Random House HQs in Westminster, MD, so they make it across country and across the northern border in a progression. Yeah, it only takes a few hours to read one but it takes months to write…
Just use Tech Support or Sysop. They'll get it.
I forgot the context, Matthew, sorry. Too many messages and replies and the original context message is gone now. Reinstalling Windows is a pain in the rear but it's sometimes a good idea to do it occasionally anyway. I reinstalled Windows when I added a second hard drive and discovered,…
Many of the higher-end graphics packages (like CorelDraw) provide Kodak viewers, but you can also order inexpensive software (I believe it's called Kodak Access) directly from Kodak. Somebody from Kodak here will probably be able to tell you where it can be ordered in Britain (it's available from a toll…
Which of my 43 published novels do you want a short description of? Go to any bookstore (chain bookstore in particular, such as Waldens, Daltons, Brentano's etc.) and look in the science fiction section under Chalker. I have eleven million copy plus selling books, so I'll be there.
Well, the original OS/2 code was MicroSoft's, so you'd expect much the same error codes there. I have a certain grudging admiration for MicroSoft. Remember how they promised no more UAEs if you went from WIN30 to WIN31? And they kept their word. They renamed them….
Ron, they haven't figured out how to quadruple the CD capacity yet, and I'm afraid that's what you'd need!
Okay, one at a time…. I don't know the Mitsui. If it says XA anywhere, it's Kodak CD compatible. It it doesn't, it may be single session compatible but not multisession compatible (i.e. it might be able to read everything laid down in one pass but not anything added later…
Interesting. I knew of a lot of error messages but never saw a GPF message outside of Windows….
No, I'm a science fiction writer, mostly, and that means that if I make a mistake I hear about it for years. Besides, MathCAD was cheap (AAAS member special) and is fun to play with.
Actually, I work at 1024X1268, and I do use wallpaper, but it's only that tiny "paper.bmp" file from WIN30. It's just easier on the eyes and doesn't take much memory. Besides, it keeps me from having my son sneak in and put on one of his own creations…. With the…
Sorry, Lynne, but naked wimmen is one of my trademarks. If I leave 'em out my editors (usually women, by the way) want to know why….
Awww…. I'm getting used to "I'm back." It's like an old friend….
Yeah, well, Prodigy keeps getting more and more expensive and you still get the ads! I have several services I find useful for different things: DELPHI is friendly and is great for online "live" stuff, has great email, and very cheap ($2.50 a month) access to the Internet. BiX I…
Because somebody could read "digressions" and think we were just digressing on Nautilus subjects, which we often do….
Just your friendly cable monopoly in action, most likely. Some of the emerging dish technologies might even give some apartment dwellers a way in, although you'll need to be facing south or west! In Britain, they have a 50-channel Ku dish system and it's fascinating to see all the tiny…
The good news is that there are several just as you describe out there. The bad news is that I can't give you the titles of any of them because my wife and son have been raiding my CD ROM files here and I can't find where they put half…
You miss my point. If you could make a camera that would only accept Kodak film you could almost afford to give away the camera, and, in any case, it would be a one-time charge. On the other hand, Kodak processing companies who do Photo CD charge for the service…
Well, why not? After all, nobody's going to mistake a thread with a name like that for anything about Nautilus or CD ROMs, are they?
Fine; join the club, then, and answer everybody else's questions. The key isn't just the bill; the key is to use BBS management software that limits that bill and also allows you to manage your own time. TAPCIS is my own choice; it logs on, downloads my EMail and all…
That's where a dish comes in handy. ALL national media as well as governments go in for such things. I don't believe the CBC when it's examining a lot of Canadian politics, nor the Beeb on British, but what they say about other places, including ours, is often the best…
You actually expect the truth from government briefings? How naive…. I grew up in close proximity to Washington, D.C. I know better.
Invasion? Maybe, but didn't we all? The Indians invaded from Asia, then the Spaniards and Portuguese invaded from Europe, followed closely by the English, French, Dutch, even the Swedes. For a period between the Civil War and the Twenties most major cities looked and sounded like a Disney exhibit with…
Funny–I got the impression that Kodak's Photo CD was introduced so that Kodak could sell it as a service and make a lot of money. I doubt with their patents and copyrights that they would be too thrilled to see competing photo companies offering it without paying royalties. Kodak is,…
You'll agree that multisession XA is really best in firmware; current MPC CD ROM drives now include support for it within their chip set, and a few offer firmware upgrades from single-session to multisession capability. However, I don't know of any way to play and use multisession XA disks using…
I don't think the AVI system is practical for much beyond what it can now do, and considering how critical matched video drivers, sound drivers, and the like are, I really wonder just how much progress we can expect on the anarchic PC side. So MicroSoft annoints the S3 or…
Well, it's pretty much anything the regulars want to make it, isn't it? If you have a CD ROM question, I'm sure folks here would be happy to answer it (most of us are veterans of betas and multimedia stuff and all that) and if you have a question for…
The French farmers are so powerful that the entire French government is scared to death of them. They actually kill politicians. They also attack, beat, terrorize, and whatever British and other truckers bringing imports into or even THROUGH their countries. I watch the BBC news every night. We have no…
Involving ourselves in the affairs of other nations is a constant, not something new, that's all I'm saying. And a good examination of the wars and revolutions around 1848 and 1871 will show you that civilian wars aren't that unusual, either. The most instructive thing about the Serbs and their…
Speak for yourself. We Celtic Americans will not rest until every single road sign is in Welsh (and hence forty feet long)!
Paul, I am self-employed and with a pre-existing condition. Blue Cross is currently getting me for $1095 a MONTH for coverage for me and my family and I can't switch because nobody else will take me. It's about at the top range that I can handle (but it only takes…
Good. I'm not going crazy, then. The trouble is, while I'm getting much better TEST results I'm not seeing a humungous (or even noticeable) increase in actual playing quality. Oh, well….
Very few centrist parties command majorities; they just don't have the fanatical followers and dedicated tops to take them there and keep them there. Poll after poll indicates that the majority of British citizens agree more with the Liberal Democrats on most issues, yet it has not and probably will…
They generally refer to it as Kodak Multisession, if that helps, and, yes, it's a different "standard." But right now it's the only game in town for the Kodak CD photo format and is likely to be the one used by others when they come along because it's in the…
Well, I admit that I have a Brittanica in the house, but it's not on CD ROM. Of the 3 that are now, the Groliers has more depth of information than the other two in my opinion. Okay, so the F&W and Comptons are aimed at middle/junior high and the…
You can't. You either buy the CD ROM that is specifically designed to work with the port or you can't run one from it. It is a proprietary interface. However, you CAN hook a CD ROM to any of the dozens of fine SCSI cards around and then just run…
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