Re: Interest in GS CDROM?

[ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)]

In article <1994Jan22.032526.28170@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>,
jmaricon@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Jim Maricondo) wrote:

> DigiSoft is currently considering the production of a new IIGS CD-ROM
> disc.  How much interest would there be?  We don't want to make it and
> then have only 20 copies sold, for instance...  On the other hand, if
> we could sell 100, we'd get the project underway immediately.  So,
> what say the masses?  Just how many AII users have CD-ROM drives now
> that they are much cheaper?

I would get one if this GS CDROM came out. This in my opinion, is much more
improtant to ME than the titles in discQuest.

> Most of the stuff on the disc will be in HFS format, so AII users with
> access to Macs with CD-ROM drives could copy off files and bring them
> home to the GS as well..  There might also be a prodos partition for
> P8 programs..

Will this fill HALF the CD-ROM? I wouldn't like to get something with only says
10 MB used up, like some of the other CD-ROMs for Apple II.

> It would certainly have a mongo amount  of the latest AII freeware and
> shareware..  There also would be a lot of  other data files, including
> many megs of MODs, animations, fonts, sounds, songs, pictures, tons of
> programming source  co de and utilities,  etc.  Also included would be
> disk images of all of the French/etc disks I have access to, including
> a   lot of demos  and  other disks that never   did  make any national
> networks...  GS items would be emphasized and give n priority.

Sounds like GEM '94! - which is what I am looking for! Another type of CD-ROMs
I am looking for are games...

> Remember, it's all tentative at this point..  Price is no exception.
> I'd guess somewhere from $40-60 at this point, with possible special
> offers to Twilight II owners and bundle deals with Twilight II v1.2
> (which still is a couple months off, so don't panic :)

Reasonable price. 

> We're open to your suggestions!  What would you like to see?

More GS (or Apple II) specified graphics instead of GIFs or Macpaint (includes
a couple of GIFs btw for testing out with converting software), more GS
specified sounds like Diversitune and synthLab, and yes, make sure most of
the software (besides the FTA demos) are harddisk installable, so that you
can simply launch any program on the desktop.

<<Jim

Thanks! Finally came across another reason to buy a CD-ROM!

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