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#3 New Adult CD-ROM Discs

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#18444From: Al HeynnemanFeb 19, 1992 8:59 PM
Dave, Will these work on a Mac? Cheers, Al
#18452From: Dave CreamerFeb 20, 1992 4:44 AM
Al, Our CD Discs are ISO-9660 format. The whole idea behind ISO-9660 was that it would be a common format, readable by all operating systems. All that is required for a Mac to read an ISO-9660 disc is a program called Foreign File Access and a file for this program called ISO-9660. These programs are distributed free by Apple and are shipped with all CD-ROM Drives for the Mac. Similar drivers exist for VMS and Unix. A Sun workstation with the proper driver should be able to pop an ISO-9660 CD-ROM Disc into a Sun CD-ROM drive and access all the GIF files as if they were stored on the Sun's own hard disk. All of the images (95%) are in (.gif) format, the .gif file can be viewed & manipulated on Mac's, Amiga, IBM, & UNIX and is a universial image format. The animated graphics are Grasp (.gl) and Autodesk (.fli) would be a problem since they are DOS programs, unless of course there is a conversion program made for them. The .gl and .fli amount to about 5% of the total files on the CD discs. I have file viewers available for UNIX to view .fli and .gl as well as pkzip for UNIX. …Dave
#18481From: Al HeynnemanFeb 20, 1992 7:58 PM
Dave, Hum. I'd suspect that the GIF files are the only thing that I might be able to use then. I have the appropriate CD drivers, etc. How much of the total disk is comprised of GIF files? What is the content of these GIFs? Cheers, Al
#18485From: Dave CreamerFeb 21, 1992 1:16 AM
Al, Like I said in the last msg. 95% are .gif and as far as the contents go more XXX than your wildest fantasies. You won't be disappointed. ….Dave
#18509From: Al HeynnemanFeb 21, 1992 9:24 PM
Dave, I noticed that there was quite a size difference between the 3 CD disks. If I was to only buy one, should I choose the largest one? What would you recommend? Cheers, Al
#18568From: Dave CreamerFeb 23, 1992 11:26 AM
Al, 2 or 3 just flip a coin, they both quite good. Dave