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Re: DiscQuest(tm) Multimedia CD-ROM system (long)
- Subject: Re: DiscQuest(tm) Multimedia CD-ROM system (long)
- From: bazyar@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)
- Date: 22 Nov 1993 20:24:42 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <2cm9cr$3nq@ionews.io.org> <2cpssf$m4h@nuscc.nus.sg>
ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean) writes:
>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.
We have 13 titles; that's what the list was for :-)
>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?
Any color pictures are converted to 16-level grayscale; no detail is
lost in the translation, and you can scroll around the big 640x480 pictures
or view them in a "half-size" mode. Buy the CD's from Sequential
and you will be sure they work. :) (and also help us support you!)
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