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From: tdesjardins@spurge.waterloo.edu (Tim Desjardins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CD-ROMs in Print:  Good news and bad news
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Date: 9 Oct 89 06:39:44 GMT
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In article <767@jc3b21.UUCP> fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) writes:
>     I'm not vary familiar with CD-ROMS.  Does the fact they are
>IBM-compatible mean their data adheres to the MS-DOS format?  If so, does
>that mean the data on the CD-ROMS could be accessed on an Amiga with an
>MS-DOS file system mounted?  Granted programs on the CD wouldn't be of any

Not unless you have a bridge board with some kind of kludge to make it look
like an Amiga device. Secondly CD-ROMS are not in IBM format they are in 
the ISO 9660 format, generally, which all driver software is to support. What
is needed is driver software for the ROM drives themselves that support each
manufacturers CD-ROM reader. An extra caveat people like Apple and   
Microsoft have been publishing machine specific discs, for instance many Apple
specific discs contain Hypercard Stacks, and Microsoft has established a  
superset of the CD-ROM standard ISO 9660 called Microsoft extensions.

My memory is a little fuzzy so no flames please and thank you. Discs can be
considered as IBM specific if apllications on them are IBM exe files. But
pure data should look the same to everybody including the directory structure.
 ( is the standard ISO 9660? or 960? ? and what colour book is it? )
>--Fabbian Dufoe
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Have a nice day. 
Tim Desjardins.          
tdesjardins@spurge.waterloo.{edu|cdn}