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GEMini CD-ROM disc
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Available from: UNICA, 061 429 0241
Price: £23.33
The GEMini CD-ROM is one of the first CDs to come out for
the ST that is packed full of PD & Shareware programs,
fonts, music, demos, graphics files and almost everything
you could want for. With this disc you could actually start
up a PD library of your own as you'd already have 700 floppy
disks of PD!
There is one little thing wrong with the disc, though. All
the programs are in two forms; ZIP compressed format and
uncompressed. This means every program is repeated twice.
The reason for having these repeats is because the disc is
supposed to be used with a BBS; the compressed files are for
quicker downloads. I think they should have chosen them all
to be in compressed format as then we'd have loads more
software on the disk than there already is.
There are 2,800 files on the disk which is 600Mb, but do
remember the files are repeated. However, there are still
loads and loads to choose from. When you double click on the
drive icon you are presented with some folders seperating
the compressed and uncompressed programs as well as some
files that contain all the programs that appear on GEMini.
When you go into one of the folders you get a list of other
folders such as ones that contain DAs, graphics and
utilities and then you go into those and choose the programs
you want.
GEMini is really worth buying - you get over 600Mb of
software on one disc priced at just £23. If you wanted to
buy these programs from a PDL you'd probably spend about
£800. This means buying GEMini and a CD ROM drive is
actually cheaper!! Of course it's even cheaper if you
already own a CD-ROM drive.
If you don't have a CD-ROM drive then your best bet would be
to buy the Apple CD-300 drive for £200. Unfortunately, Atari
never released their CDAR drive in 1988 which means we have
to resort to buying third party drives. To connect your ST
to the drive you will require the ICD Link as well as its
driver software. For more details write to us at the usual
address. The Apple CD-300 is available from Harwood
Computing on 0773 521606.
From: Unica
Contact: 061 429 0241
Price: £23.33
The Uppers....
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* Packed with 2800 files of software
* Very, very cheap.
* You could start your own PDL with it
and the Downers
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* Requires a CD-ROM drive to use it.
Overall: 80%