Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!ims103 From: IMS103@psuvm.psu.edu (Ian Matthew Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Fred Fish on CDROM....now being advertised Message-ID: <90248.132524IMS103@psuvm.psu.edu> Date: 5 Sep 90 17:25:24 GMT References: <455@hal.CSS.GOV> Distribution: comp Organization: Penn State University Lines: 28 lupe@alanya.Central.Sun.COM (Lupe Christoph - Sun Germany Consulting - Munich) writes: >stevem@hal.CSS.GOV (Steve Masters) writes: > >>On p.43 of the October AmigaWorld is an ad from Xetec for an Amiga >>CD-ROM system. As part of the ad, they say they will include with >>the system a CD-ROM with the Fred Fish library through #360. > >Any pricing ? External version is listed at $699 and the internal version lists at $599. The internal version works with the 2000 and 3000, and the external version works with all models. >>The ad says the system reads ISO9660/High Sierra discs...Is this the standard >>used in the CD-ROM data bases currently available? Put another way, is this >>reader good for anything today, or are we still some time away from putting >>this tremendous resource to use on our Amigas? > >Yes, ISO9660/High Sierra is the standard for CD-ROMs. >E.g. the Sun CD-ROM "player" (it *has* an audio output) plus SunOS SW >can deal with them. Would be interesting to try the CD-ROM on it. The ad says it has audio jacks for sound. I wonder if you could digitize sound directly off a CD? Ian Smith