Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: cd-rom Message-ID: <13511@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 9 Aug 90 16:22:52 GMT References: <1990Aug9.005540.5558@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> Distribution: comp.sys.apple2 Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 11 In article <1990Aug9.005540.5558@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Bob Sherman) writes: >I think if enough developers send a complaint to DTS that these cd-roms >are useless to the GS developer community they will get the hint and make >the stuff available to us on a media that we can use. You can use the developer CDs on a IIGS, if you get a CD-ROM drive for it. Officially recognized developers were even given large discounts on CD-ROM drives. The real problem is that the typical Apple IIGS owner can't justify spending the $$ for a CD-ROM drive when there are only something like 5 CDs usable with the IIGS. Note that most Apple CD stuff is not in ISO/High Sierra format but rather Mac HFS. So much for standards.