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A very expensive but complete API is made by Sony called FTR. Although they have an API for the Mac, their emphasis is on Windows. They say the API is mainly for large book publishers (hence the price SRP ~12K) but all the users that have worked it is say…
Ric, Give Tom Santos (the owner or just talk to one of his elves) a call at 415-863-6222. He said he just got three more in but I bought another… The $399 price is for an external for cash/check. The killer news he gave me today was Quadra 950's for…
Their software sells for $595 and $1495 or fairly close to those numbers. The $595 does PC compatible CD's and the higher prices package supports additional features. The software appears to be driven by different internal companies is why I suggested at least checking them out. -dle
You might try Sony's Electronic Publishing Company. I know they have a good PC based package called Multimedia Formatter which they do seem to sell unbundled. -dle
Spoke with Sony yesterday and learned that you can have 2 color label placed on CD-R blanks for free. The catch… it is done in Japan with a 1000 disc minimum. Although at $18 each it did require some consideration. I would be very interested in whatever you find out.…
Ric, Could you send me the info as well? Please include professional licence information as well. Thanks. David L. Edwards Shoestring Engineering, Inc. 584 Castro Street, Ste 508 San Francisco, CA 94114 USA 415-920-6920 415-920-6922 (fax) AppleLink,AOL: dle Compuserve: 76344,1702
At least one solution would be the TOPiX software from Optical Media International. Very expensive and perpetually beta. -dle
Thanks for the info. As soon as DF 1.2 arrives, I guess I will update. -dle
Ric, The drive is the Apple 300 external for $399 cash. It is based on the Sony CDU-8003 mechanism. Included with the drive are the following: Demo discs: Mac Applications, Mac Games, Kids Read: Cinderella, From Alice to Ocean, Nautilus Intro, Mozart, Apple Chronicle, Photo CD, & CD-ROM Titles Sampler.…
Grant, I play audio CD's just fine and I know I have the latest drivers from AppleLink (namely 3.0.4). I run on a Q950. What problems are you having or might it be QT 1.6 which I didn't install…. -dle
The price, $399, is a cash price at Macadam in San Francisco. It is their current regular price and they had three or so left two days ago. Credit is something like $419. They ship stuff around the world (literally since they supply a distributor in Aus.) You can give…
I tested this and found that the Apple drivers gave only slightly better performance using the default parameters of CDT. However, you can adjust params with theirs. I used mine under too many that it didn't make sense and the 300 is fast enough for me. I did this using…
Michael, If you are interested in RW Optical LaserDisc and/or WO Optical LaserDisc, you might want to give one of the deities in that arena, Mark Heyer of HeyerTech. They introduced me to the media a while back… but I still learn something every chance we get to talk. He…
Robert, You might be surprised to hear (as I was) that the Apple 300 (Sony CDU-8003) drive is now available retail for ~$399. I just got another one to replace my antique 3301 after hearing that price. Once again, my local dealer beats my June developers pricing… Scary. 🙂 -dle
Richard, After using a CD simulator or your best "seat-of-the-pants" guesstimate, you might consider having the premastering done on a Sony CDW-900E or its equivalent. This professional CD Writer produces a disc that is equivalent to a manufacturer's stack check disc for the price of a consumer one-off disc. We…
Lisa, What do you have your cache in the Memory CP set to? If it is greater than 512K, set it to 384K or 512K. Larger values will severely degrade SCSI performance (3-5 times slower) regardless of CPU/system version. I had a few problems with SpeedyCD and random hangs, never…
Multimedia Authoring
Message #51676
Frank, I really like Authorware Pro. In only about four hours, I was able to do a few tutorials and then jumped write in to creating my interactive package. It is a very good package although it does take some getting used to when working with multi-layer screens. I finished…
CDROM distribution
Message #51675
Jeff, The report is called "Optical Storage Media Market Research Report" and was sponsered by Apple Computer. Production by Dana Morgan of Digital Dreams. Apple direction by Randy Haykin. Printed 4/93. There isn't any part or isbn numbers. I think it will be difficult to obtain but you can reach…
MacWarehouse Deal
Message #51674
Jason, Almost every internally terminated device uses removable inline parts. They are usually found close to where the SCSI cable connects to the drive's electronics. Every drive that I have encountered used two or three parts placed end-to-end. The parts will be socketed and very thin. Carefully remove them and…
Jeff, The Apple report was distributed to AMP members as part of their Multimedia program. Unfortunately, my copy seems to be buried but I will send you more info when I find it again. I would recommend applying to AMP for all serious Apple-compatible multimedia developers. They deliver a lot…
A word of warning… never set a cache size of >512K. Regardless of what the default setting may suggest, NEVER set it larger than 512K. This is true for all versions of the Mac OS. I have documented that all SCSI performance is severely impacted by exceptionally large cache sizes.…
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Multilingual/Multicultur
Message #50815
For an excellent example, Check out "Just Grandma and me", one of Broderbund's living books, on CD-ROM. It has English, Spanish and Japaneese language support. And it does a good job (for the two I could check) as well. -dle
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#MacWarehouse Deal
Message #50814
Actually, every internal termination I have ever found can be removed. The devices that offer only a single connector can be worked around as well. I thought all such beasts were slain but I recently had a client using Bernoulli so I picked one up and much to my amazement,…
Sean, On the Mac it's just as easy. For PC CD-ROM's, I use TOPiX and use it to format the CD on my Sony. Just to insure that the CD works, I then run SoftPC and verify the CD from DOS and/or Windows… Not too bad for a Mac… :-)…
Ryan, I believe I sent one via e-mail and the other was a posting reply but as you say… it HAS been a long weekend. I will rummage around my msgs and see if I can find both of them. -dle
They should be available on either MacDev or Macsys forums. The latest version is 4.0.2 and they are part of the Apple CD driver package… unfortunately, I don't think they have them unbundled for separate downloading. Just extract the FFA and associated files and you should be set.
In addition to Compton's, there are a few specialized encyclopedias that I am aware of. These are Countries of the World Enc and CIA Multimedia World Factbook both by Bureau of Electronic Pub, US Atlas by SW ToolWorks, and Time Table of History by Compton. Finally, you might want to…
Sanjay, One other item that may be of assistance… A new program called CommonGround has been released which can give you the best of both worlds. It indexes text but stores the document exactly as it entered. I use it to permit me to send electronic flyers without worrying about…
FYI, a CD-ROM can hold upwards of 250,000 pages of text… garphics are a bit harder to quantify although I just finished 3 picture archives for a client and they were averaging 7000 graphics per disc. David L. Edwards Shoestring Engineering, Inc.
Glenn, Although the media itself is more expensive, consider the following: 1) All your archive disks will probably fit on a single CD. 2) Indexes can be created so that you can instantly access and of your documents. 3) The CD-ROM is a disk so you maintain the heirarchial structure…
Ryan, Check out the file mfg.txt in section 8. Unfortunately, Rich hasn't updated it recently so I will e-mail some info on our company. David Edwards Shoestring Engineering, Inc.
Michael, I will email some information on our CD-ROM mastering services. For existing business lists and references, you could try ZP4 by Semaphore (408-688-9200) and Dialog Busisness and Industry References by Dialog Info Svcs (415-858-2700). Enjoy. David Edwards Shoestring Engineering, Inc.
You might try contacting Sony and/or Apple since they both have special programs in place designed to "get CD-ROM's to the masses." My company would be interested in more details about your operation, we do CD replication for clients that might be interested in your services. Also, are you exclusively…
The Sony CDW-900E has digital audio output as well as digital data in and out for daisy chains. Software can read the CD-ROM for verification as well. It writes double speed and produces discs that comply in all aspects of Red Book, Yellow Book, and Green Book standards. We call…
There are several products that will work, the ones I am aware of are from Roland Corp and include 2-3 stereo inputs that is mixed and amplified. The mixer is housed with the speakers. All their units are shielded so they won't upset your montitors. David Edwards Shoestring Engineering, Inc.
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#URGENT! CD and Syst.7.0
Message #49119
You may also need version 3.0.1 of AppleShare. Seems like there was a bug with 3.0 and CD-ROM's. David Edwards Shoestring Engineering, Inc.