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#Amiga & CD Rom???

    11-Dec-89 12:45:20
Fm: William Volk 76424,2765
To: Russ Witt 76625,20
I haven't been at Aegis in 18 months, but if I see John, I'll say hi. As to CD-ROM, the two major formats of CD-ROM are High Sierra and ISO 9660 (very similar). These are supported on the Macintosh and PC (and other systems). Now I've seen Amiga software that lets you treat a MS-DOS format disk as a normal Amiga disk. I.E. sort of like Dos2Dos, but stuff that actually runs in background and/or replaces the standard file system for that drive. The same thing should be possible for CD-ROM. The physical connection could be SCSI. Typical CD-ROM titles might have images in TIFF format so reading them isn't a problem. A title like Groliers Ency. might also need a retrieval engine. Alot of CD-ROM stuff is just files (clip art etc..). So it could be quite usefull to read IBM/Mac CD's. The standard format situation is really unique (when compared to floppies) and is worth supporting.