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From: utoddl@uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: 3 games on CD-ROM for Amiga
Message-ID: <1990May3.174527.18593@uncecs.edu>
Date: 3 May 90 17:45:27 GMT
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <297@tlvx.UUCP> sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp) writes:
>
>CD-ROM for a while there, I noticed Toy's 'r' Us carries a $300 [not sure on
>price] CD-ROM for one of the games systems.  Shoot!  Someone make an interface
>for the Amiga! :-) Seriously, you can see that CD-ROM is now within reach.  And
>if it makes better games, I'm all for it.)

Yep.  Just the other day a friend and I were thinking about the possibility
of buying sets of games on a single CD-ROM.  How would you like to get
a CD-ROM with the following:

   1.  A killer flight simulator
   2.  Frogger (with great sound samples)
   3.  SimCity
   4.  Populus
   5.  System Vr4

I think that might go over pretty well.

(The blunt instrument for those of you who are 500+ articles behind:
    Any machine with a CD-ROM drive on it could be running some flavor
    of UNIX as easily as any game.  What a waste--getting a CR-ROM to
    store 200Meg of sampled engine noise when you could have REAL
    computing power from the same box.  A 500 could do it.  Imagine,
    "Commodore Breaks the $1000 Price Barrier for UNIX Machines--
     UNIX in the Home Becomes Real At Last!"   Hmmmmmm, Nah!)

-- Todd M. Lewis