Re: What do you do with an Apple //?

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <199708011929.VAA00157@basement.replay.com>,
Anonymous <nobody@REPLAY.COM> wrote:

[snip]

>Single speed?  Bad advice, Randy.  Have you ever tried to use a GS
>archive CD in a single speed drive?  It crawls.  This is not an insult,
>but if you are actually planning to _use_ the drive for anything other
>than playing music CDs, then a double speed is a must.  Double speeds
>are going as cheap as singles these days and with the right drivers,
>they play music discs just fine.
>
>I tried a single speed before and it sucked.  Trying to load an archive
>or a program using such a drive, well you might as well be using a
>floppy.

I have a CD150 on my IIgs. Did you think I just pulled my advice out of my 
ass? The speed is adequate. The advantage of the single speed (CD SC, CD SC
plus, and CD150) is their using Apple proprietary SCSI commands. These are
what the supplied drivers in system 6 use. If you like the plug 'n play, no
muss no fuss setup characteristic of Apple systems, this is the thing for you.
BTW I don't play audio discs on my IIgs since you can't get audio to come
out the internal speaker plus it won't work in 8 bit apps. I use the ol' 840
to play audio discs.

>12X, maybe even 6X drives would be an overkill for the GS (no one
>writing CD games), but 2X makes things bearable.

I used to use my CD150 on my Quadra 700 and the speed was good enough to
play quicktimes off CDs. That's pretty respectable, and considering what
single speed CDs go for now, I think it's a good setup.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com