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Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Wednesday, 13 Apr 1994 09:07:17 PST
From: <JMH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Message-ID: <94103.090717JMH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: 5' 10 Pac Redux
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In my posting "5' 10 Pac Huh" I complained about problems encountered
in trying to get some of the CDRom's included in this offer to
work. I received a nice note from Jan Schwenk about this posting
in which he attributed many of my problems to MS-DOS and Mickeysoft.
While I am a major basher of the lame way the original PC was done,
the makers of the programs writing for this machineg MUST take its
frailities into account when designing their software. One of
my pet peeves is vendors, mainly gamers, that assume the machine
does NOTHING except run their program. Consequently they assume
every resource on the machine is theirs. This includes the Stellar 7
problem and the DOOM picadilio. Jan said he could help me with some of
the problems I have and I will be communicating whih him privately.

As to his CDRom of CDRoms, evidentally I gave it a HoHum, I didn't save
my copy. Jan took exception to this, probably rightfully. I wasn't really
interested in this product and had not tried it. I went back and tried
it. For anyone interested in such a listing this product is well worth
while. There is a LOT of information here! Making this a comprehensive,
totally error free product is about as easy as catching the wind in
a butterfly net, givin the quickly changing nature of such a listing.

I think $30 is NOT an unfair price for this bundle, however I'm still
bummed at the problems getting these things to run.

Jim

Again, These are MY OPINIONS ONLY!! I not even sure SLAC allows
opinions without management permission.