Re: Golden Orchard v. AUGE CD

[Mark Fisher]

In article <digisoft-2304951830140001@zallen.stanford.edu>, 
digisoft@hypermall.com (Jim Maricondo) writes:

>>
>> 6. The aforementioned duplication of the GO.PRODOS partition
>> "wastes" 15MB for little apparent gain.
>
>The apparent gain here is usability on a IIe, or under ProDOS 8.  15mb is
>only about two percent of the CD's contents, so it's a very small
>sacrifice in our opinion.
>

Yea! //e usability is a _huge_ plus to me, I don't own a IIGS, and was 
wondering if that $85 CD-ROM Pre-Owned has for sale would be of any use to me. 
Ok, 2% isn't _much_, but al least you thought of us //e users. I'll borrow my 
friend's IIGS's CD-ROM when she gets G.O. and see how it works. Thanks!

>
>If this is a good success and we get enough interest, we would consider
>doing more CDs in the future.  I have about 100-200mb of compressed Apple
>II files from America Online for instance that I haven't decided what to
>do with.
>

Oh, yes, _please_. An archive of AOL files, a _lot_ of which are ProDOS 8 
goodies would be a monster project/blessing. The Apple // ftp sites have little 
in the way of 8-bit stuff, and AOL's collection would be a terrific thing to 
have around. If you do decide to go through with this, are you interested in 
other shareware/freeware programs? I have a _ton_ of diskettes from a defunct 
Dayton users group.

>
>I hope this doesn't sound too argumentative or negative.  I just wanted to
>share some of the great effort that goes into putting together as much
>data as is on Golden Orchard.
>

Not at all; I, for one, understand completely. You should see some of the 
_dogs_ they call CDs in the IBM world. The reviews of G.O. have, on the whole, 
been positive, I think you can be proud of your product.

Fish   <'><