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Article #173Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
From: r... Ron Christian x5545
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 19:33
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 19:33
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In article <399d30$b...@gandalf.rutgers.edu> ste...@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ricky _suAve_ Stella) writes: >Think about it for a second... Can you afford $50 a game ??? Then you >can probably aford <$150 for a cheapo double speed CD Rom drive... If >they are not cheaper now... That's true. At first I disagreed with the decision to force all of us to get CD-ROM drives (not only Origin, but a lot of software vendors) but then two important things changed: (1) CD-ROM drives got a LOT cheaper, and (2) a version of smartdrive was released that caches CD data, so lower performance drives could be used in applications that used to require fast, expensive CD drives. I still use my single speed NEC top loader, I just buffer the hell out of it with smartdrive. Haven't had to consider upgrading yet. (Maybe with WCIII :-) Besides, these days, you practically can't buy a soundcard without getting a CD drive thrown in. :-) Ron -- You can't give power to government and confine it only to those politicians who share your ideology. -- Oliver
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!news.ege.edu.tr!news.metu.edu.tr!mother.usf.edu!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!uwm.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!gasco!titan!roc From: r...@gasco.com (Ron Christian x5545) Subject: Re: Origin - CD-only forever! Message-ID: <Cz2GzD.B6C@gasco.com> Sender: ne...@gasco.com Nntp-Posting-Host: doubloon Organization: NorthWest Natural Gas Company, Portland, Oregon References: <38ep3g$5gj@adam.cc.sunysb.edu> <1994Oct24.013219.10665@pimacc.pima.edu> <399d30$bnr@gandalf.rutgers.edu> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 19:33:13 GMT Lines: 24 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit