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From: chymes@fribourg.csmil.umich.edu (Charles Hymes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CD-ROM and the Amiga
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Date: 2 Jul 90 15:37:34 GMT
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In article <3347@crash.cts.com> seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from stevem@hal.CSS.GOV
>
> 
>That, and many of the other databases on CD-ROM, are more than likely MS-DOS
>format...let's get real here, it's just like software.
> 
>You can't just put in an MS-DOS 3.5" disk in an Amiga and have it work, just
>like you won't be able to use their CDs.
> 
>Sean

According to the Dude who was speaking at the CDTV seminar at AmiExbo
in Chicago, ( I dont know his name be he wrote Maxiplan and is a major
CDTV developer) CDTV will support the hundreds of existing CD Roms
already produced for existing platforms, including the IBM PC. Thats
what he said, and it makes sense. All that it takes to use thhose
existing databases is to know the format that they are stored on. And,
by the way, you CAN just put MS DOS data disks into an Amiga and use
them, I do it all the time. Sence I have a filesystem that knows the
format of MSDOS disks mounted, I can read and write MS-DOS disks just
as I can AmigaDos disks. It will be the same for CD rom.

Charlweed Hymerfan.