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Golden Orchard CD Ordering Information
Subject: Golden Orchard Ordering Information
Q: What is Golden Orchard?
A: Golden Orchard is the largest Apple II CD-ROM made to date. It
contains over 600 megabytes of files useful to Apple II owners, including
tons of freeware, shareware, utilities, games, graphics, sounds, music,
source code, and much more, all in uncompressed, easy-to-navigate form.
It is primarily targetted at the Apple IIGS owner, and can be fully
accessed on a Mac or Apple IIGS equipped with CD-ROM drive. (Apple IIe
owners can access the ProDOS partition only.)
Golden Orchard Shipping SOON!
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Golden Orchard will ship the first week of April! We are now taking
preorders, which will be sent out the first day we ship.
SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER: Save $5 off the normal $65 list price by
ordering now!
That's LESS THAN 10 CENTS PER MEGABYTE!
Pricing Information for Introductory Special
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Golden Orchard (Special) .. $60
Shipping & Handling:
United States ........... $2
Mexico/Canada ........... $3
Overseas ................ $5
To order, please send payment to:
Jim Maricondo
PO Box 11005
Stanford, CA 94309-1005
Make checks payable to Jim Maricondo.
Sorry, credit cards are not acceptable. User group bulk discounts available.
For further information, check out our world wide web site at:
* http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~jagaroth/digisoft/
Or email:
* jagaroth@mail.stanford.edu
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GOLDEN ORCHARD QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
MARCH 17, 1995 REVISION
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Q: What is Golden Orchard?
A: Golden Orchard is the largest Apple II CD-ROM made to date. It
contains over 600 megabytes of files useful to Apple II owners, including
tons of freeware, shareware, utilities, games, graphics, sounds, music,
source code, and much more, all in uncompressed, easy-to-navigate form.
It is primarily targetted at the Apple IIGS owner, and can be fully
accessed on a Mac or Apple IIGS equipped with CD-ROM drive. (Apple IIe
owners can access the ProDOS partition only.)
Q: Will the CD be readable on a PC?
A: No. The ISO 9660 file system (needed for the CD to be PC readable) is
just too restrictive and thus not very feasible for our needs. Instead
the CD has ProDOS and HFS partitions.
Q: Will the CD be readable on a Mac?
A: Yes. The CD has six HFS partitions (this was due to bugs in the HFS
FST, but it also allowed us to fit a LOT more on the CD since it reduced
HFS overhead considerably) and one ProDOS partition, all of which are
capable of being mounted on a Mac. However, you will need Mac CD drivers
that will recognize multiple HFS partitions and ProDOS partitions. The
only driver we know of that will do this is FWB's CD-ROM Toolkit. It will
mount the 5 HFS partitions, and if you have the ProDOS File System
extension (part of the Apple IIe card software for the Mac) it will also
mount the ProDOS partition as well.
Almost all files should fit on an 800k disk so you could read them on a
Mac with CD-ROM drive and transfer them to the GS manually. 800k disk
images are one exception, but you can convert them into their original
disk format on the Mac or the IIGS using included programs, so it
shouldn't be a problem.
Q: Will the CD be useful to an Apple IIe owner?
A: Somewhat. The ProDOS partition is around 18MB. It contains lots of
AppleWorks files, ProDOS 8 utilities and programs, BASIC programs, and
other items of interest to Apple IIe owners. However the definite focus
of this disc is the IIGS.
Q: What is the current status of the project? When will the CD be shipping?
A: We expect it to REALLY be shipping the first week of April (1995), if not
sooner! Right now the CD is being replicated by the CD manufacturing
company. We are presently taking preorders that will be shipped when we
start shipping.
Q: Will there be user group discounts? What about overseas orders?
A: If your user group would like to put together a group order, please
contact us (see below) for group discount information.
We encourage overseas orders but regret that we cannot accept credit cards
as a method of payment. Overseas orders will be charged a $5 shipping and
handling fee for air mail shipping.
Q: Where can I get more information?
A: If you have specific questions, or would like to receive a printed order
form/flyer in the mail, please contact:
jagaroth@leland.stanford.edu
If you have access to the World Wide Web, check out our new site, which
contains full up-to-date information on Golden Orchard as well as other
DigiSoft information. You can reach it at:
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~jagaroth/digisoft/
The specific Golden Orchard page can be reached at:
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~jagaroth/digisoft/orchard.html
If you would like to receive electronic ordering information when the
CD is shipping, please send your email address to:
jagaroth@leland.stanford.edu
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GOLDEN ORCHARD CONTENTS SUMMARY: (Partial listing)
Applications 81mb
Demos 10mb
Games 27mb
Graphics & Sound Demos 7mb
Graphics Utilities 5mb
Sound & Music Programs 10mb
System Utilities 4mb
Telecommunications 5mb
Disk Images 145mb
FTA Software 22mb
Graphics 51mb
3200 Color Pictures 8mb
Animations 10mb
APF Pictures 5mb
GIF Pictures 12mb
Music 64mb
MIDI Songs 5mb
MODs 22mb
SoundSmith Songs 16mb
SynthLab Songs 12mb
Sounds 13mb
Apple Software 28mb
System Software
HyperCard IIGS
AppleWorks 10mb
BASIC Programs 1mb
Stacks 28mb
HyperCard IIGS 6mb
HyperStudio 22mb
Bitmap Fonts 2mb
TrueType Fonts 28mb
Deprotects & Cheats 6mb
Icons 1mb
CDAs 2mb
NDAs 2mb
Inits 1mb
Finder Extensions 1mb
Patches & Updates 1mb
Text Files 25mb
Programming 124mb
From Apple 31mb
Data Compression 2mb
Assembly Source 8mb
C Source 10mb
Utilities 18mb
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Jim Maricondo | jagaroth@leland.stanford.edu
'98 | http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~jagaroth/
| Stanford University