CompuServe Thread

Ric, You can either buy a cdrom emulator (software) or you can make a test cdrom (one-off). Depending on how many times you have to repeat the cycle, making the one-off could be more practical, since that would cost probably less than $300 if you have a service bureau (like mine) do it. The emulator software, depending on whose you buy, is usually part of a premasterming systems and can cost thousands. Kathy [GO ONEOFF]

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 call these QuickOne(tm) discs. Once you have tested it, our disc manufacturer uses that disc, without reformatting or re-encoding, to clone a master. A QuickOne disc complies in all respects with the Red Book, Yellow Book and Green Book standards, and may therefore be used with any commercially available CD player, CD-ROM drive or CD-I player. These discs are functionally equivalent including performance characteristics, to that of a mastered CD. If you decide to support multiple platforms, it is the only that I know of to accurately test every platform prior to mastering. I hope that helped… sorry if I had my marketing beanie on too tight. 🙂 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