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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: MidWinter?
Keywords: what's it like
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Date: 12 Jul 90 11:22:45 GMT
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In <8335@latcs1.oz.au>, barton@latcs1.oz.au (The Wasp) writes:
>i saw a gae called midwinter yesterday,  can anyone give a review please?
>
>Also I saw a startling little games pack for the C64.  It was a collection
>of 12 Megs (30 Games) on CD.  But this wasn't CDROM it was CD, yes just play the
>CD on any normal audio CD player and load into the C64 via a provided cable?

This little trick is possible because of the cassette port on the 64. The
cassette port accepts audio (best if 'squared off' rather than nice rounded
waves). 

>Is this sort of thing avaliable for the amiga?  I miagine that the CD could be
>treated as a raw sequential device (could it?).  But the transmission speed
>would need to be known right?

In order to do it on the Amiga, you would need a 'loader' that would accept
the audio from the CD player.

-larry

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