Path: rcfnews.cs.umass.edu!barrett From: hrallen@bgnet.bgsu.edu (Royce Allen Hunt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews Subject: MINI-REVIEW: AsimCDFS 3.5 Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications Date: 8 Apr 1996 00:51:46 GMT Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett Lines: 58 Sender: amiga-reviews@math.uh.edu (comp.sys.amiga.reviews moderator) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4k9nv2$821@kernighan.cs.umass.edu> Reply-To: hrallen@bgnet.bgsu.edu (Royce Allen Hunt) NNTP-Posting-Host: knots.cs.umass.edu Keywords: CDROM, filesystem, driver, multimedia, commercial X-Review-Number: Volume 1996 Number 10 Originator: barrett@knots.cs.umass.edu Do You CD Light? A Review of AsimCDFS 3.5 If you are thinking of joining the world of CD-ROM storage, multimedia, and games, then this is a product worth looking into. AsimCDFS covers about anything you would ever need from a filesystem and CD utilities for the Amiga. Of the advantages of the product: 1. Support- pick almost any CDROM drive and any SCSI controller, and you will have a working drive. (This includes rewritable CDROM) 2. Ability to "rewrite" files to the hard disk buffer. This is not mentioned in the manual, but I have been able to do it. 3. AsimTunes- One of the best audio CD players around, although it is a bit ugly. It has an extensive library, and a customizable screen (it can even be placed on custom screens or the Workbench) Depending on your CD-ROM drive and your SCSI, you can even output your audio through the Amiga. 4. PhotoCD and Corel Disk compatability. As I have not used photo CD's, I will not review this feature. 8( 5. Mountable RAW sector 6. CDTV/CD32 emulation Disadvantages (these are the problems that I personally have had) 1. Full support for CDROMS and SCSI cards. This is a hard task and I commend the programmers for the long list of drives and SCSI that they have supported. However, when I changed SCSI cards from a Dataflyer to an Octagon, I lost support for CD32 games. This bugged me because I needed an autobooting SCSI in order to play some CD32 games (Dataflyer is not autobooting). 2. A nicer interface for the AsimTunes utility. Asimware has started to make it look better by replacing the "word" button for eject with a "symbol" button, but what about the other buttons for play/pause, stop, etc? Also, why doesn't fast forward work with my CDROM drive (Sanyo CRD254S)? In comparison to other CDROM filesystems... I have only used the CDFS for the CD32/OS3.1... AsimCDFS is excellent. I hope that the programmers for AT Gmbh take note when they integrate CDROM into the new OS. AsimCDFS 3.5 made by Asimware Innovations Inc 600 Upper Wellington St Hamilton, Ontario Canada L9A 3P9 (905)578-4916 -Royce Hunt --- Accepted and posted by Daniel Barrett, comp.sys.amiga.reviews moderator Send reviews to: amiga-reviews-submissions@math.uh.edu Request information: amiga-reviews-requests@math.uh.edu Moderator mail: amiga-reviews@math.uh.edu Anonymous ftp site: math.uh.edu, in /pub/Amiga/comp.sys.amiga.reviews Web site: ftp://math.uh.edu/pub/Amiga/comp.sys.amiga.reviews/index.html