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From: hrallen@bgnet.bgsu.edu (Royce Allen Hunt)
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Subject: MINI-REVIEW: AsimCDFS 3.5
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Date: 8 Apr 1996 00:51:46 GMT
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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 

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