Re: CDROM Burners

[fadden@netcom.com (Andy McFadden)]

In article <19991222012614.21957.00000310@ng-cf1.aol.com>,
Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>>You'd need CD recording software.  It can be done, but it's not trivial
>>to write.
>
>There might be timing issues if the objective is the standard
>single or multisession CD burning software.  However,
>DirectCD, which saves data in packets and (for CD-RW
>drives) works similar in principle to a regular hard drive, the
>Apple II is more than up to the task.  Someone just has
>to write an Apple II version of DirectCD.

Oh, is that all? :-)

You're right about one thing though: the Apple II would probably
struggle to keep up with the recorder if you were writing on the fly.
It would do just fine writing from an ISO-9660 image file though, and
you can create those with mkisofs, which might not be unduly difficult
to port.

In the final analysis I don't think it makes much sense though.  Throwing
600MB image files around isn't the Apple II's strong suit.

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