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#Advice

    11-Jul-93 12:16:59
Sb: #Advice
Fm: Andy Farlie 100047,30
To: All
I've been in and out of this forum a couple of times and you guys seem to know where its at for CDROM questions (I guess that's why its the CDROM forum). I've actually got my mitts on one 🙂 Unfortuneatly its on very short term loan 🙁 I have a 486@33 with 16Mb ram, a SoundBlaster V1.5 and a 1Gb SCSI2 disk with a FASST-7000 controller, windows 3.1 and DOS5. The CDROM is from Compaq and appears to be rebadged SONY CDU561-31 (or at least that is whats on the base of it). Here's the question. What additional stuff (I've got MSCDEX disk with it) do I need to drive this thing? Can I make it play Audio CDs and if so how? Are there any good shareware/freeware products out there that will drive this CDROM unit. I don't mind paying some to a shareware author but I object to paying large amounts to software corporations when I wont have the use of the drive for very long. (Mind you I may get hooked and then I'll be back with questions about which one to get for myself!) Thanks in advance Andy Farlie UK