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Thanks, Deirdre'. I received a prompt answer from Pinnacle Europe this morning, and he basically blamed my Adaptec PCMCIA SCSI card. I'm going to talk to Adaptec, and do some more experimentation on my own. I'll let you know what I find out. – Harry (you can call me Ray,…
Arrgh. I'm not sure how to set the forum settings, other than to have Tapcis rejoin the forum, which I've done several times. Guess I'll ask for help from the Tapcis forum, unless someone here knows the command.
Deirdre', Another reply mentioned that he does not use the MSCDEX driver when recording. Do you have any info or recommendations on the effects of that?
Paul, what general type of platform are you using? Desktop machine, hard drive type, etc? That sounds like a lot of hassle to go through, at least the part about maintaining a stripped copy of Windows itself. What I'm trying to pin down is whether there's a big overhead factor…
I went into CompuServe's permanent settings and changed the username there, and rejoined the forum, but last time I scanned the forum it still said "Hello, Daniel G. Mintz" . I tried switching Smartdrive off for the D: drive, and used the TEST feature, and still underran the buffer after…
Thanks, Dana, I'd be interested in hearing about your findings. Harry Gardner (A.K.A. Daniel Mintz, hoping the forum recognizes my real name now)
Thanks for the suggestion, Deirdre'. I'll try it, but it seems like if I measure 1000KB/s with Smartdrive ON, then that drive should easily keep up with the RCD1000, unless the recording software is adding some tremendous amount of overhead. Do you know any more of the technical background on…
#CD-R data stream help?
Message #118428
Ok, I've scanned through the current forum message base and seen a lot of expert help here – kudos to all of you who are so active on this forum. Hope you can shed some light on my problem as well: I recently joined the recordable crowd with a Pinnacle…
SCSI, DOS 6.2, SCANDISK
Message #87565
I have Corel SCSI with an Adaptec adapter and a Fujitsu 500MB hard disk. I am running DOS 6.2. Is there any concerns I should have in using things like SCANDISK and/or Norton's utilities on the SCSI disk?? – Dan
Who is us?? – Dan
I'll be glad to provide any information you would like. What information would you like? Title Government Agency + contact Producing Company + contact Access engine This kind of thing? More? Less? – Dan
You know, it seems to me that it would be nice to have a section here that dealt with educational and other software related to children. I wonder if it would support enough traffic to make it worth considering?? Regardless, please continue to express your opinions about CD software for…
FWIW, I have been getting Nautilus for some months now and have not had any problems until the June disk. I have a Stealth VRAM. When using the Stealth drivers I get a fatal error. This error occurs nowhere else. When I switch to the regular old VGA drivers, I…
Convert Data to CD ROM
Message #52148
You might try Folio software. We use that to allow access to a bunch of documents for a CD that we have produced for the Department of Defense. It works pretty well. The new version 3.0 is pretty slick. Also it is not too expensive, especially for the runtime. -…
#CDAUD.ZIP PRG.
Message #52147
Mark, Is the new version that is it the CDROM library okay?? – Dan
#Best CD-ROM titles
Message #52146
Do you really like the Manhole?? My 7.5 year old daughter played with it for a few days and quickly lost interest. Running it under DOS is okay (not great). Running it under Windows (on a 486/33 with 8 MBytes of RAM) is extremely tedious. The animation is at best…
#Best CD-ROM titles
Message #52145
If you want to know a little about what is going on with the Federal Government, feel free to contact us. We are doing a small number of CD's for the Department of Defense. We are working with a company who is doing the same for many other government agencies.…
But most of my customers/users have Windows. – Dan
Microsoft Viewer 2.0
Message #52132
Thanks most importantly for the cautions. I'll let you know how, whatever I do, goes. If it goes. – Dan
If I were to purchase these two packages – Microsoft Viewer 2.0 and Toolbook, it is my impression that I would be able to put together MM "solutions" at least at some basic level for customers. This assumes that I just want to take text, video clips, and audio clips…
#Stealth VRAM and Nautilu
Message #51683
I finally got my Stealth VRAM to work — after months of trying. Now I get a GPF in Nautilus — TBook GPF in S316.DRV at 0001:47E8. Sigh. Any comments/suggestions? When I switch back to my old boring VGA drivers, it works. (I know — Doctor, it hurts when I…
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#Microsoft Viewer 2.0
Message #51670
If you had to choose either Toolbox or Microsoft's Viewer software to do MM applications, do you have a preference? Anyone else have one?? – Dan
The chairman of our company is on the board of directors of an integrator with offices in the US, Hong Kong, China, and other locations in the Pacific Rim. Depending on your requirements, it may be possible that we could help out with the CD production and work through the…
I recently produced my first CD for my day job company – 5000 copies for a Federal agency involving text and images. I have also been talking to a few friends about producing some niche "print" based CD's on my own . I would be glad to discuss what we…
I recently when through the same set of questions. My company — small integrator in the DC area — was asked to produce 5000 CD's for a Federal agency containing text and images. We ended up using a search engine called Folio which works pretty well. Their new version will…
#PhotoCd Software
Message #41477
I would be interested in the address and/or phone number of ADI. – Dan Mintz WJ Culver Consulting
I have run into the same problem you did. A Federal customer approached us to produce a fairly large number of CD's to distribute information internally and to commercial users. I spent a lot of time attempting to find out about companies that work with putting textual and graphic materials…
I have two IDE hard drives, and an old CD ROM drive which I will replace eventually – I have no idea what the interface is to the CD but for discussion purposes lets assume that it is not SCSI. I have an SBPro so could use that proprietary interface…
Thanks for all the information, as soon as I select which forum to delete from my Tapcis directory, I will add Folio's. – Dan
Thanks. I'll call him sometime this week. Will let you know if anything happens. – Dan
Access Software
Message #37935
How do you like Folio so far. Do you have many images along with text? If so, does it handle images okay. – Dan
Thanks. – dan
What's Rick's id? – Dan
Upfortunately, I work for a small company and am barely/almost a Folio user/reseller sort of, so I will not be in Salt Lak City at the meeting. Perhaps you, or someone else, could EMAIL or send me the announcements. – Daniel G. Mintz WJ Culver Consulting Inc 8500 Leesburg Pike…
I'll be calling sometime on Tuesday, I hope. If not, then Thursday. Thanks for responding. – Dan
Why not send me a vendor contact for TMS. Thanks. – Dan
Daniel G. Mintz WJ Culver Consulting Inc 8500 Leesburg Pike – Suite 402 Vienna VA 22182 Thanks. – Dan
Video on CD
Message #37175
I have a customer *** sigh *** who would like to put some VHS tapes, with sound, onto CD for distribution to a number of users (around 5K) of theirs. Anyone do this? Any suggestions? Anyone willing to talk to me on the phone Monday or Tuesday? Dan Mintz WJ…
Well Frank, if Folio is clunkey and boring but working, do you have some thoughts on something that is neat and wonderful and works — even for repacking not-small things, even when they are not organized for print. Also, let me revisit your comment on Smarttext a little more –…
Thanks for the info. Right now we are likely to go with Folio. Any suggestions on what engine to use when we are going to be accessing a lot of pictures/overheads along with the text? – Dan
#Access Software
Message #36743
Any comments on the following Access Engines: Folio Quantum Kay Software (I probably spelled this wrong) Lotus Bluefish ? Thanks. – Dan
Of course, there never seems to be a simple answer to these things. I have 8MB of memory which sounds like an amount that is on the bubble. How much would Speedway cost?? – Dan
I have 8MB of RAM. Does this sound like enough to use Speecache+? – Dan
Someday perhaps. Now if I can get my poor long suffering spouse to let me wire the PC to the stereo and TV and attach the cable connection to all of them … – Dan
Using the floppy disk as an example, it is possible to read and write multiple machine formats — at least popular ones — on different machines (MAC and PC — I think) so there is hope yet. Thanks for the info. – Dan
I understand. To the extent that the issue is software, not actual physical format differences then eventually some creative person will develop software to read it. To the extent that the difference is physical differences in the CD format then it would require a clever drive — like the Maxoptix…
#Speedcache Plus
Message #29198
I have been looking at getting a 3rd party disk cache to speed up disk access. Regular disk access if the more important issue since I only use a CD-ROM from time to time. Having said this does anyone have any experience with Speedcache Plus in terms of faster CD…
#Photo CD, CDI, Tandy
Message #29086
Is there now — or do we expect sometime soon — a drive that is photo CD compatible (XA?), CD-I, and Tandy — the new thing that Tandy is coming out with that connects with a TV. Specifically, I would like to get a drive that could read the cd's…
Sorry for the delay, conflicts between my sound board and fax board lead to my modem not working
#Hissing from my CD-ROM
Message #21378
I have an old Hitachi drive (actually an Amdek), which eventually I will replace with a MPC compliant something or other. It sat around for a few years until I got a fast enough PC that booted through the MSCDEX stuff in less than a lifetime and now I use…
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