Re: CD Roms

[bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean) writes:

>Is the resolution in 320 or 640 mode? Or they switch (say when the data is
>picture, 320, etc 640)? But if second case, what happened if the data contains
>both pictures AND text?
 
 Pictures are displayed in 320 mode to maintain aspect ratios; you can
shrink pictures to half-size to get an overview. Otherwise, pictures
are scrollable.

>But that means you are using the CD-ROM as a dictionary or encyclopedia. Isn't
>it true most CD-ROM works like HyperStudio/Hypercard stacks, in which they
>present you a screen at the beginning, then you move along according to the
>instructions?

  I'm not sure about that, but wouldn't doubt it.  If a particular
CD is truly a HyperCard stack, the stack could possibly be converted
for use on a IIGS, but discQuest does NOT do this.

>Do you have an accelerated GS?

  It's fast on an unaccelerated machine, too. The bottleneck is your
CD-ROM speed.

>15 _or_ 14?

 I counted 13, but there are a couple others out there that we don't
have at Sequential yet I believe will work. Call it 15  :)

>: My advice? GET IT! for me, the Shakespeare and Sherlock Holmes CD's
>: were worth the whole thing.

>Not for me, unfortunately. I am looking for games (sad), music (not just audio
>but with description, perhaps graphics and animations) and others. Actually
>I am looking for something similar to HyperBole, if anyone remember it. 

  Big Red Computer Club is thinking about producing a CD with lots
of IIGS games on it.

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