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From: olsen@hpfcdq.HP.COM (John Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pirating CD-ROMs - A Little Reality Please
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Date: 18 Dec 90 15:46:07 GMT
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specter@disk.UUCP (Byron Max Guernsey) writes:

>That is only 4 years away(1995) and that implies that we will all have CD
>ROM drives in 4 years. I have no plans to buy a device that only 2 or 3
>games use and several programs (such as encyclopedias, fred fishisks,etc)
>use. And I am almost certain game manufacturers won't produce A LOT for
>this thing until enough applications such as the encyclopedia appear that
>many many people will already have one. 

How many of you can remember way way back to when you would never need
a floppy drive because you had everything on those nifty cassette tapes?

>My last arguement is, not to be overly fussy, but what game do you know of
>that takes up an entire cd rom? The largest game I currently know of ...

And how many of you remember way way back when games would fit into 16K?
Those floppy disks (the ones you finally broke down and bought) that could 
store 132K were absolutely HUGE!!

>There just AREN'T many 3.2 gigabyte games available for amiga!

Yet.  If something is available and useful, it will first get used, then
later depended on, just like floppies, hard disks and multiple megs of RAM.

>To agree with you though, I suppose some new games could be produced which
>used LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of digitized music and Images.

Expect it.  Especially lots of pictures.  Digitized sound tends to have
a much higher load-time:play-time ratio, so it's not as effective as a couple
thousand HAM images. (IMHO)

Instead of saying "nothing today uses this technology" why not ask "what can
you do with this that was impossible before?"

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John M. Olsen, Graphics Technology Division  (303)229-6746
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