Re: CD ROM Ues on Apple IIgs [R(82)]

[grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)]

In article <9303301657.AA21712@lakeoa.mednet.af.mil> myers@LAKEOA.MEDNET.AF.MIL (David L. Myers) writes:
>drives, and a Apple high speed SCSI.  I am thinking of daisy 
>chaining a CD-ROM to the hard drive, but I am not really sure 

I am in about the same situation as you.  I have an older Rev. C Apple SCSI
card and an old Toshiba XM-2100A drive I got for $20 someplace.

My  drive works fine with System 6, but the CD-Remote NDA won't play
audio discs.  Apple CD drives will, though.
Basically, you need a real SCSI drive, not "fake" SCSI like some IBM ones.

As far as CD's, there is the GEM 1990 disk with some demos, AW templates
and programs, and lots of other stuff (only about 148MB, though) but
it is probably out of date.  At $119, I have not bought it, yet.

I did discover that you can read  ISO 9660  discs.  I have a cheap
$14 GIF disc (Walnut Creek "GIFs Galore") that works great, but only
Super Convert (Seven Hills) allows me to load the images (other programs
are too restrictive on filetypes and names to work).

I found another CD with MOD songs that I hope to try soon.

Macintosh TrueType font discs (for Pointless) would be a natural use, I
think, but make sure they are Macintosh HFS disk.  IBM TrueType are not
the same, and won't work.  I haven't tried this, yet.

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Grover Thomas       grover@emunix.emich.edu   (Nifty quotes currently down)