Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: FRED FISH CD ROM? Message-ID: <1990Aug17.091116.20242@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 17 Aug 90 09:11:16 GMT References: <1860@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Organization: SF Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 55 lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes: > >I would buy a CD-ROM drive if an indexed Fish disk collection were available. >No question. > As would I, if it were available at $500 for the drive and $25 for the collection disk; that's just too good a price for all that software and those demos to bypass. I think a new release every ten FF disks is a bit much, though, probably every 50 would do? I suspect that there would still be _lots_ of work to do to make this CD-ROM be really useful "as is", since right now there is lots of stuff that 1) expects to see some particular disk name from which to access its auxiliary files or 2) expects to write on the disk from which it is run, and 3) other stuff I haven't thought of. Of course, just copying from the CD-ROM onto a disk with the proper name would work OK, but a lot of the convenience is lost. Nobody (that I've seen, I joined this thread 15 or so articles back) has mentioned one of the major advantages: CD-ROMs, with a little care, are nearly immortal, as opposed to floppies, which die a lot quicker than the 40 hours spinning on a single track their specs suggest they should endure. By the way, before we all put these big workloads on Fred, who has a job to work at and a life to lead besides collecting stuff onto disks for us, has anybody asked him if he's willing/able/interested? This isn't the first "wouldn't it be great if Fred would just ..." thread that has run on this long in this newsgroup without his concurrance this year. I'd like to see CBM task this job to someone, and a similar one to gather _all_ the Badge Killer Demo _entries_ (not just winners) onto a CD-ROM, and put each out as a promo for the Amiga (not just for the CDTV toy), at a "collected freeware" price, so we could all be showing our friends all this neat stuff the Amiga does so they'd run right out and buy their own Amiga 3000s. [Great sales idea, CBM. IS ANYBODY LISTENING? Why do we keep having to ask that? There should be somebody from Commodore sales mining the net for sales ideas as a full time job, we shouldn't have to bully them into noticing this kind of stuff. Where else do you get this much free and willing assistance? There should be someone from CBM management doing the same, to keep track of what CBM is (perceived to be) doing wrong, and follow up on it back at the shop to make things better, from the lousy support in Australia to the documentation bloopers right here at home to the incredible number of trashed harddrive reports that indicate the file system still needs either a lot of work or a world class self repair utility running constantly in the background.] {Finally made a BADGE meeting, didn't introduce myself to anyone, but I had to sign a release to SLAC for being on their property and hand it to Mike Meyers, so I may have blown my cover anyway.} Kent, the man from xanth.