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#Control Pioneer CLD-91
Message #139370
All, Does anyone know if there is something I can get to hook up my Amiga to my laserdisc player and control it? All I need is simple control, like Play and Pause. And I need to be able to do it through Arexx commands, so whatever hardware it is…
You buy my company's product, CD NET. We sell products for all versions of Netware, plus LAN MANAGER or any other NetBIOS network. You can either set up a dedicated CD-ROM server or, if you are using Netware 3.11 or higher, connect your CD-ROMs directly to the file server.
Try removing VCDROM.386 from the [386Enh] section of your SYSTEM.INI file. Some Microsoft titles have a problem with this driver. As an alternative, try executing a MOUNT command from the CD NET WORKBENCH to mount the CD before selecting the Developer CD from your Workbench menu list of CD-ROM titles.
Not yet.
Heck, no. I'm glad to have you hear. Besides, I stuck my nose into your forum first .
Karaoke CD Standard? That's a new one on me. Is this the same as CD+G or CD-V? You mention a "White Book". The only other mention I've seen of a "White Book" was referring to the CD Bridge spec., which has nothing to do with Karaoke.
Just wanted to confirm what Kathy said. I think the most important reason for keeping CD-R discs out of the sunlight is the same reason for keeping standard CDs, LPs, Laser Discs, and tapes out of direct sunlight: They tend to warp when they get hot in the sun.
Oh, yeah! Exotic CD formats are a favorite hobby of mine!
I definitely agree that the size of games is rapidly outstripping the average user's hard disk capacity. Believe me, I've strongly requested that my friend push for CD-ROM. It's not always cheaper to put software on CD-ROM. For a large production run, the cost is around $2000 plus $1-$2 per…
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CD ROM MANUFACTURE
Message #638
Meridian Data sells the Philips 521 with our PERSONAL SCRIBE CD-ROM mastering software. Or you can buy just the software from us. I like the 521, it's fast and sturdy. The 521 itself is capable of recording any sort of Multimedia disc your heart desires. However, the software you use…
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Load Audio from CD(ROM)
Message #637
It works well now, but as I said, it wasn't easy. We get reproducable data grabs. There is frame drift, but our software corrects that. It has to be streamed to hard disk before it can be recorded.
Oops, forgot 2. 2. I don't have any experience with the Pinnacle or its software. From what I do know about it, you should be able to record a disc that you format with our software, but it would not be easy. 1: I see – you mean, make the…
1. Depends on what you mean by "open". What you can do with MSCDEX commands is: A. Find out what Logical Sector Numbers the file is stored in. B. Read those Logical Sectors. So you can't "open" an associated file in the DOS sense of obtaining a file handle and…
If you have more discs than drives, yes. The only way around this would be some sort of disc changer. I would avoid these like the plague in a network environment. Trying to flip two discs back and forth slows access to a crawl.
That's correct. We support the Mac System Use fields in our CD PUBLISHER FOR MACINTOSH.
Yes, I am referring to associated files. Our Meridian Data CD PUBLISHER FOR MACINTOSH supports transferring Resource Forks to Associated Files. This allows you to produce pure ISO 9660 discs that properly represent the Data and Resource forks. PC's using MSCDEX cannot access Associated Files using standard DOS funtions. They…
Well, our Meridian Data CD NET FOR NETWARE has one solution. We include two NLMs in our package. One mounts the CD-ROM drive as a native netware volume, and requires the usual time to remount the directory tree. The other NLM (CDNETSVR.NLM) mounts the disc immediately, without having to scan…
OK, I'll take them one at a time: 1. Yes, you can store any Macintosh data or program file, including both the data and the resource fork, on an ISO 9660 disc. This is how I recommend you make a disc that you want to run on both Mac and…
I'm using a Western Digital WD7000. I've used it with a Toshiba 3201 and a 3401.
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#PC <=> Mac?
Message #50626
Simple. MacPCCD-ROM. The Mac has an internal hard disk which terminates one end of the SCSI bus. The CD-ROM drive has a SCSI terminator, which terminates its end of the bus. I just load my CD-ROM device drivers onto my Mac and my PC, and they both happily read the…
CD-ROMs are like floppies: they can have various directory formats. The most common format is ISO 9660. To read an ISO 9660 disc, you need a driver for your computer that will translate ISO 9660 to your computers native disk format. For MS-DOS, this tranaslator is called MSCDEX.EXE (MS-DOS CD-ROM…
Usually the disc is essentially divided into two partitions, an HFS partition and an ISo 9660 partition. The Mac will see the HFS partition and ignore the ISO partition. MS-DOS PCs will see the ISO partition and will ignore the Mac partition.
Yeah, you can do it, but it's not easy. Usually, it means recording a lot of data twice: once in the ISO 9660 partition and once in the HFS partition. Remember, PCs can't see the contents of an HFS directory tree, and Macs (in general) can't read the contents of…
ISO Directories
Message #49890
So long as the parent of directory number 100,000 is one of the first 65,535 directories, this is not a problem. You will have a problem if the parent of directory number 100,000 comes after the first 65,535 directories. Therefore, a more complete listing of the limitations on directories is:…
Glad you asked. Our company, Meridian Data, publishes CD NET FOR DOS. This software will let you turn a PC into a dedicated CD-ROM server. This server can be accessed by any DOS NetBIOS workstations, including DOS LAN Manager workstations. For more info, you can call our sales number: 800-767-2537…
My company, Meridian Data, makes products for sharing CD-ROMs on a Netware network. We have CD NET FOR NETWARE, which let's your Netware 3.11 file server also act as a CD-ROM server. We also sell CD NET FOR DOS, which lets you set up a computer as a dedicated CD-ROM…
Yep, this is the CLUT bitmap bitstream. None of the fancy video effects of CD-I.
Early draft versions of the XA spec. did not define a video data format. The current May 1991 version does include a graphics standard.
I think your reference to the CD-ROM XA spec as "the Yellow book ISO 9660 extension" may confuse people into thinking XA is the one and only Yellow Book and ISO 9660 extension. While CD-ROM XA is an extension to both the Yellow Book and the ISO 9660 spec., there…
You're absolutely right. CD-I graphics format is from different from XA graphics format.
Actually, the limits under ISO 9660 are: Maximum number of entries (files and subdirectories) in a single directory: 126,322,565 Maximum number of directories on a single disc: 429,496,729 Much more than anyone is likely to need anytime soon. My guess is most ISO reading and writing software would give up…
I wanted to clarify the use of dots (.) and semicolons. The format of an ISO 9660 File Identifier is: NAME.EXTENSION;VERSION The NAME and EXTENSION can contain Upper Case letters A-Z, digits 0-9, and underscore (_) characters. The VERSION can only contain digits, representing a number from 1 to 32767.…
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#shared cdrom on ibm lan
Message #48755
You can probably attach the CD-ROM drives driectly to the LAN SERVER file server and make them appear as network hard drives to your workstations. The disadvantage of this approach is that some DOS CD-ROM applications use CD-ROM specific functions that won't work on a network hard drive. An alternative…
My company, Meridian Data, sells CD NET for just this purpose. For more info., call us at 800-767-2537.
There are anumber of subtle differences between CD-I format and CD-ROM XA format: 1. The first track (Track 0) of any Compact Disc contains a table of contents. This table lists all the tracks on the disc. On a CD-I disc, the data tracks are omitted from the table of…
The current version of the CD+G spec., as well as the CD+MIDI spec., was published by Philips in a System Description titled "Compact Disc Digital Audio System, Subcode/Control and Display System, Channels R-W" dated May 1991. In a letter accompanying this book, Philips said it intended to submit this document…
Whether a drive says XA or not has nothing to do with whether it's multisession or not. Multisession and XA are two entirely seperate things. Some people tend to link them together because PhotoCD is the first popular XA application and the first popular multisession application. However, an XA drive…
Recording data in Track 1 Index 0 is one of the tricks I alluded to. Since audio players normally mute their output during Index 0, this should get around the problem of getting static during the data portion of the disc. However, there are some problems with this trick: 1.…
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#bypass mscdex checking
Message #47665
The MSCDEX functions and CD-ROM device driver functions are doucmented in the CD-ROM Programmer's Guide for MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions from Microsoft.
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CD-ROMs on NWLite 1.1
Message #46312
When you run MSCDEX on your system with the CD-ROM drive, make sure you use the "/s" switch. This let's MSCDEX know you intend to share the CD-ROM drive on a network. MSCDEX then adjusts itself to be compatible with network software.
You can also buy an NLM version of CD NET. This NLM version supports all CD-ROM device functions, like our stand-alone CD NET product. It also supports native Netware access like SCSI EXPRESS (this feature was just added in our latest release, 4.40).