Re: Digisoft Innovations

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

David Wilson <mcs6502@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Jun 7, 11:24 pm, limtc <thyech...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What is Golden Orchard?
>
>It is a CD of Apple II files released in 1994 (I bought a copy). It is
>bootable (if you have an Apple SCSI or High Speed SCSI card and a SCSI
>CD-ROM). It has ProDOS and HFS partitions (7 in all I think). It has
>AppleWorks, DTP, BASIC, fonts, Games, Utilities... as well as IIGS
>systems 1.1, 3.1, 4.0, 5.0.4, 6.0 & 6.0.1 and ProDOS 8 and lots more.

    You can get a better idea of what was contained on the disc, as well
as details of the compilation and what Golden Orchard is, reading Jim's
original announcement that was posted to this group back in 1995:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/browse_thread/thread/add2c859302cf82d/3c067d057191ced3?lnk=st&q=#3c067d057191ced3

    I'm thrilled to see this available as freeware! I've been wanting to see
the disc since it was first announced in the 90's. Didn't own a CD-ROM
drive back then, but of course now that I do I downloaded and burned
a copy. Worked perfectly, I'm just browsing it now....lots of *interesting*
stuff on it, and best of all much of it can be run directly from the disc!

    Any chance of getting scans of the original disc label and jewel case
insert too? :) Personally I would love to see other CD-ROM collections
re-released as freeware (e.g. GEM, IIgs SIG CD from Germany, Time
in a Bottle, YourWordBox, Apple's System 6 Golden Master).

    Incidentally, on a site tangent, while looking for the original list of
data from the GO CD, I stumbled upon Jim's website which has an 
MP3 collection of IIgs music from games, demo, etc:
http://www.maricondo.org/iigs-music/

Mitchell Spector