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From: safire@panix.com (Mark Safire)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: CD Sampler Info; Cross-platform (Mac/MPC) questions
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Date: Thu, 06 Jan 1994 14:19:49 -0500
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In article <dross.757708853@cs.wisc.edu>, dross@cambizola.cs.wisc.edu (Dan
Ross) wrote:

> 
> "The Future Is Now" CD Sampler
> 
> Nowhere is it clear who publishes this disc.  It says "Electronic Arts" in
> a few places, but the only company I could get from 800 directory assistance
> for a company with that name was one that does stuff for the military!
> 

Call Electronic Arts at 415-571-7171 if you need to reach them. I don't
think they are doing anything for the military but who know ....

> The Space and National Parks demos, and Total Distortion, are kind of neat.
> The Ugly Duckling demo has enough to make it a bit entertaining for kids;
> it's reminiscent of a color version of the Manhole or other interactive
> click-here-and-there and see what happens programs.
> 

Total Distortion was not released when I called CD-ROM Warehouse a few days
before Xmas, but that may have changed now.

> Question:  Mac/MPC CD-ROMs
> 
> I have SoftPC and was hoping to be able to access the files for MPC or IBM,

Good luck! If you did get it to work it would run as slow as molasses.

> 
> Dan
> dross@cs.wisc.edu

Best,
MS