Re: 2 New IIGS CD-ROMs -- And more on the way! :)

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <3AUG199619085731@vax2.concordia.ca>, spec@vax2.concordia.ca
(Mitchell Spector) wrote:

>   Yet there are other reasons for owning a CD-ROM, especially considering
>the older 1X and 2X (external SCSI) drives can be found for under US$30-$40.
>It makes a nice method for playing musical compact discs for one.

The only time I've found that useful is when my stereo's CD player had to
go away to get repaired (I wrote a program for an Apple IIe clone to allow
it to play audio CDs, so that I didn't have to tie up my IIgs).

I've always found the audio CD play facilities rather clumsy on the IIgs,
since they are too dependent on being in a desktop program.  I spend most
of my time on the IIgs in ORCA/Shell or ProDOS-8 software, and having to
go back to a desktop program just to play a CD is rather cumbersome.  It
also has the annoying habit of stopping audio play whenever you switch
operating systems or reboot.


On the Mac (and OS/2, probably Windows as well) the player program is
never far away (unless you're playing a full screen game, in which case
you probably don't care about the CD anyway!), so it much more convenient.

-- 
David Empson
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