Re: DiscQuest(tm) Multimedia CD-ROM system (long)

[ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)]

Brian Tao (taob@ionews.io.org) wrote:

: DiscQuest(tm) utilizes standard SCSI CD-ROM drives and will support
: currently available CD-ROM titles from leading multimedia publishers
: such as Creative MultiMedia, Grolier, Compton's and more. DiscQuest(tm)
: Software, developed by Sequential Systems, Inc. and Procyon, Inc.,
: provides text search, still graphics display and audio from
: DiscQuest-supported titles. Bundled with Sequential Systems' RamFAST
: SCSI interface, search performance of the DiscQuest System(tm) using a
: non-accelerated Apple IIGS is similar to that of a Macintosh LC.

: DiscQuest GS(tm) software (for Apple IIGS computers) will be made
: available to resellers and end-users for use with other SCSI-type CD-ROM
: drives and for dealer bundling. The software includes a copy of Creative
: MultiMedia's popular title "The Family Doctor". DiscQuest(tm) suggested
: retail: $99.95.

: The DiscQuest GS System(tm) is a bundled product that includes
: Sequential Systems' DiscQuest(tm) Software, an external CD-ROM drive
: with cable and one disc caddy, a RamFAST SCSI interface, and four CD-ROM
: titles.  Suggested retail for the complete bundle will be around $650.

I found the above too good to be true! I am waiting for something like that
for quite a while! 

OK, some questions: how many pecentage of CD-ROM titles in the PC/Mac world
can be used? Some rough estimates please? 10%? 50%? Many of the CD-ROM titles
I known contains exe files and are not machine independent.

The CD-ROM titles listed contains colour graphics. How is it represented?
Monochrome? How does the interface look like? Can I just go out an grab some
CD-ROM titles and expect them to work? If not, how to make sure they will work?

Have tons of questions, probably too excited. Please sent me any details about
the above products. Finally there is some hardware worth buying to upgrade my
GS!

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: Brian Tao:: taob@io.org (Internex Online, 416-363-3783, 27 lines, v.32bis)
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