Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!parc!biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!relay.puug.pt!news.inesc.pt!animal.inescn.pt!ciup2.ncc.up.pt!news.ci.ua.pt!etpds From: etpds@ci.ua.pt (P.SOARES) Subject: Re: CD ROM Today? Sender: usenet@news.ci.ua.pt (News Administrator) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 02:17:10 GMT References: <765808463.0@fourstar.mi> Nntp-Posting-Host: zeus.ci.ua.pt Organization: Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Lines: 46 Loyd Craft (Loyd.Craft@fourstar.mi.org) wrote: : You wrote: : > Has anyone bought this magazine? I can't decide if I would be blowing : > my $8 for it, or if it's a decent deal. Any comments? : I liked it... : I had trouble getting a few of the demo programs to work, but I think that : was my fault - only 4 megs in the system I installed it in. : The CD has several full texts of books which are searchable, and exists in : .txt format. : Some titles include: : The Arabian nights : War of the Worlds : Bullfinch's Mythology : Dracula : Frankenstein : 20,000 Leagues under the Sea : Works of Edgar Allen Poe : Journey to the Center of the Earth : In all, 26 titles... : All of the shareware that is discussed in the magazine is on the disk... Doom : 1.2 Shareware version is on there for instance... : Several utility demos, several commercial game demos, a couple of neat DOS and : Windows based utils for displaying and searching text (makes the junk in : Windows look bad - It's what is used to display the "electronic books") : It's also got another section that made it completely worth the high price of $8 : to me - A fairly large section on Internet... : If you're not a Windows user, you can pretty much forget using the disk, except : for some of the programs and text that exist... : Loyd Craft I would like to know something else about that magazine, once i couldn't find any magazine about CDROM. Please say something to my email adress - etpds@ci.ua.pt