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Re: Digisoft Innovations
On Jun 13, 11:24 am, Mitchell Spector <mitch...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> David Wilson <mcs6...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Jun 7, 11:24 pm, limtc <thyech...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> What is Golden Orchard?
>
> >It is a CD of Apple II files released in 1994 (I bought a copy). It is
> >bootable (if you have an Apple SCSI or High Speed SCSI card and a SCSI
> >CD-ROM). It has ProDOS and HFS partitions (7 in all I think). It has
> >AppleWorks, DTP, BASIC, fonts, Games, Utilities... as well as IIGS
> >systems 1.1, 3.1, 4.0, 5.0.4, 6.0 & 6.0.1 and ProDOS 8 and lots more.
>
> You can get a better idea of what was contained on the disc, as well
> as details of the compilation and what Golden Orchard is, reading Jim's
> original announcement that was posted to this group back in 1995:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/browse_thread/thread/a...
>
> I'm thrilled to see this available as freeware! I've been wanting to see
> the disc since it was first announced in the 90's. Didn't own a CD-ROM
> drive back then, but of course now that I do I downloaded and burned
> a copy. Worked perfectly, I'm just browsing it now....lots of *interesting*
> stuff on it, and best of all much of it can be run directly from the disc!
>
> Any chance of getting scans of the original disc label and jewel case
> insert too? :) Personally I would love to see other CD-ROM collections
> re-released as freeware (e.g. GEM, IIgs SIG CD from Germany, Time
> in a Bottle, YourWordBox, Apple's System 6 Golden Master).
>
> Incidentally, on a site tangent, while looking for the original list of
> data from the GO CD, I stumbled upon Jim's website which has an
> MP3 collection of IIgs music from games, demo, etc:http://www.maricondo.org/iigs-music/
>
> Mitchell Spector
We will post the original label for those who want to burn their own
here soon. Jim has a copy of the original Jewell case cover I believe
and once it has been scanned, we will put it on the site.
On a separate note, the Twilight II disks have been located and will
be available on the site again this weekend.
Cheers
--billm--