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CD ROM

    23-Aug-91 22:47:09
Sb: #32690-CD ROM
Fm: John Gager 71336,624
To: Donald Gross 75006,1057
I will have to agree Don, putting a program such as "Lemmings" on CD Rom without making any major improvements or adding new levels is a little silly. But, then again the CD Rom version is about the same price as the disk version, and they did improve the sound quality. CD Rom is such a new technology that it's full potential has not been used as yet, IMHO. Most of the IBM CD's I've seen are pretty lame, and while there are a few good CDTV disks, there are a few other's that get boring in a hurry. We had a very active thread going here on the future of CDTV a couple of months ago. With the introduction of CD-I this fall, I'm not giving CDTV much of a chance, but who knows? It will take a major marketing effort from CBM, and considering CBM's past history in marketing, they will more than likely botch any effort to get CDTV off the ground. John (in beautiful downtown Walla Walla) – via Whap!