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In article <38n309$b...@mojo.eng.umd.edu> doc...@glue.umd.edu (John Sabean) writes:
>Origin has been handling this techology.... What do I mean? Take 
>WC Armada for example. 13 megs it takes up. This easily fits on 3 1/2"
>disks and costs just as much to duplicate, perhaps cheaper.... (My
>numbers on CD reproduction are a year old, so don't quote me on that :) )
>There is no need for it to be a CD only product, as it is now. Yes, you

WC Armada is available on diskettes.  It is not CD ROM only.

>can play it off the CD and if you don't have the HD space, thats a good
>option, but what kind of delays do you get playing it off the CD? I haven't
>tried because I don't have DOS drivers for my CD ROM. Can anyone tell me?
>I bet they're fairly annoying. I'm not argueing against CD ROM only
>games either. Games like Rebel Assult and the like are great! My point
>is that Origin has been notorious for putting games on CD ROM and 
>advertising them as "Playable off the CD" when doing so is so unbearbly
>slow that only those that were low on HD space would ever do it! 

I have tried it off the CD.  It is slightly slower than from the hard disk.  
It's playable, but since I have the hard disk space, I'll continue to run it 
off the HD.

>I said I'd reserve my judgements until then, but I have a sneaking
>suspision that Origin will push the CD technology and have too much
>data left on the CD. Thats where the mistake comes in, because the
>CD ROM speeds are not ready for it. Unless of course they recommend
>a triple speed CD, which I won't be suprised if they do. Thats my
>point. Ready to buy a cheap double speed CD ROM for $100? Sure,why
>not. Ready to trade that in for a triple speed for a considerably
>higher price? Few of us are.... But that's the kind of thing Origin
>has been doing for the past few years....

So far they are putting double speed drives as recommended for WC3.  So, if 
you believe that, you won't need a triple speed drive YET.

Cheers
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