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Hey Shane! If I may be so bold as to add to your wish list, disrtibuted rendering sure would be nice!
#CD ROM Formatting
Message #46777
What is the maximum formatted capacity of an MS-DOS CD-ROM? Is it truly 650 megs, or is this an unformatted number? Thanx
I don't know what you are refering to re: the PAS 16 MM Kit using so many interrupts. I am running the system now using only one! Yes, you can set up the system to use more if you wish different settings for DOS and Windows, but this is unnecessary.
CD Player
Message #41449
You should check out WinCD Professional, a real, non-shareware application, available at most major software retial stores. For about the same registration price as many of the shareware applications, WinCD Professional offers much more, including a CD database which allows you to record and store digital samples from your CDs…
I did hear such a system at the recent COMDEX show and I was very unimpressed with the quality. They are in essence trying to send data fast enough through the circuitry to emulate CD redbook audio. However, the computer does not have the ability to process data that fast,…
Having been involved with the Sherlock product, I feel obliged to answer your question. Sherlock Holmes features live video, and thus has to interleave the audio data with the video information to provide semi-synched audio and video. Also, the CD ROM drive can work with either data or CD Redbook…
Sorry to but in 🙂 *.DIB files are Device Independant Bitmap files (BMP files are a form of DIB). These are probably not music files but graphics. I would assume that the Windham Hill music is in CD-DA or standard CD audio format and not part of the DOS file…
I beleive that bookshelf uses CD Audio for the music. You can check this by attaching headphones or speakers to the audio out on the front of your drive (assuming it has this capability). I do not believe that there is a CD audio pass-through on the Compaq.
Sounds interesting. Are these DOS applications? Or do I need to deal with the "overhead" of Windows?
Can you tell us more about the titles you are releasing?