#Project Guterberg
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Being a proud new CD-ROM user, I went out and bought several new CD-ROMS which
purportedly ran on an Amiga. Included was Project Gutenberg. Imagine my
suprise when I opened a window and found that there were not Amiga program
files on the disk. Does anyone know if there are any IBM emulation programs
(such as the one published by Dev-Ware) which will allow me to execute the
programs on this disk (however slowly) to be able to used the full search
capabilities of the rom? The idea of loading a single test file at a time is
not very appealing.
I don't know of anything yet…
Bob Comer — Cruising the nets on Autopilot!
Cheyenne, Wyoming U.S.A.
Check out this months AW, it has a CD-ROM article, and Project Gutenberg
is listed as Multi-Platform. Try contacting the author… maybe she can
help you with how PG made it on the list if it's not Amy compatible… or
what you may (or may not) be doing wrong.
Chris – Fast and Low on my '020!
"MicroSoft": from Micro = small, and Soft = limp.
PMJI, but I'm using Project Gutenberg, no problem. It's an ISO-9660 format
CD-ROM that'll work with a plain CD-ROM drive on an Amiga, or CDTV, or
almost any player.
So you opened the file window and didn't see Amiga icons, but the files
are there. But if you open a Command Line Interface and type DIR you'll
see them. Alternatively, load up your word processor or text viewer (I
browse the Gutenberg selections using View80 2.0, because it lets me open
ten texts at a time) and in the program's file requester and you'll see
the disc listings. Or, even, if you're using Workbench 2.x or up, go up to
the Workbench menu and in the Window pulldown select View By Name.
You're right that there are no executables on that disc, and that's
intentional. Project Gutenberg was specifically designed to work with as
many computer platforms as possible. Therefore, the texts on it consist of
plain ASCII files. The idea is to call up those texts in the software of
your choice. You can use a hypertext engine to set up your own links, if
you need that. Just be clear on the concept: A Windows or Mac user
wouldn't see anything different.
— Ron Legro / MILWAUKEE WI USA via AUTOPILOT
["Phun, phun, phun on the Infobahn…"]