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From: tt@thor.acc.Virginia.EDU (Tang Tang)
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Subject: Re: DAK's CD-ROM package: anyone try it?
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Date: 6 Feb 91 21:42:42 GMT
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In article <1991Feb6.165851.6013@cbnewsc.att.com> freak@cbnewsc.att.com (c.e.malloy..iii) writes:
>In article <5619@husc6.harvard.edu> albert@endor.UUCP (David Albert) writes:
>> I was thinking of getting the CD-ROM package advertised in DAK. Has
>> anyone gotten it and been happy or unhappy with it? I'm particularly
>> interested in the included software. How good are each of the pieces
>> -- the encyclopedia, atlas, reference set, and huge library of
>> literature?
>>
>I have the DAK (Sony) CD-ROM package. So far I am reasonably happy with
>it. (See below for a Question.) The hardware installation was simple.
>Just plug it in and power back up. The software was a different story,
>but it had nothing to do with the software from DAK. Since I have an
>AT&T 6383E/33 WGS (386 @ 33 Mhz) and the system has it own internal
>cache, there was a problem with Smartdrive. Once I removed that every-
>thing was fine.
>

  I got the DAK package also, and am pretty happy with it.  One thing weird
about it is the drive controller, in the manual they call it the "Sony bus".
Maybe someone on the net can tell me what's a "Sony bus" and how it's
related to SCSI.

>Now for my question. The DAK CD-ROm unit came with w program that will
>play Compact Discs (the audio kind), But I am having real problems with
>it. If I load the program and then insert the disc, nothing works. If
>I load the disc and then start the program, I can play the disc, but
>if I remove the disc, insert a new one, and reload the program, nothing
>works. To get anything, I must reboot the system. Does anyone have, or
>know of, a really good program that will play CDs? I know that is just
>a dream, but is there are MS Windows 3 program?

  Yeah, that cdplayer program is brain damaged.  Try the one that comes
from Sony.  It works much better, except there isn't any mouse support.
I also a config program for the encyclopedia from DAK, it allows you to
change the default colors.  Let me know if you want me to e-mail it to you.

Tang