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From: Ville Jouppi <vjouppi@sci.fi>
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On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 22:48:06 GMT, Nate Dannenberg <natedac@kscable.com> wrote:

>> I hear JOS will multitask with a gui eventually
>
>It already does, and quite well I might add :)

Ok.. I haven't had the opportunity to try it. :-(

>> and CD burning just might be feasible using the CMD SCSI controller.
>
>Actually I read someplace about a CD burner designed just for slower
>machines, made by Panasonic I think.  Its designed not to trash discs when
>the buffer underflows, instead it just turns the laser off.  I think this
>was posted either on the COPS or Homestead lists (see www.videocam.net.au
>in the C64 section for more details).

Plextor and Sanyo have those BurnProof-drives too.

>SUpposedly one of these would work on a CMD HD without the worry of too
>slow of access to the data.  Also I read that someone has already started
>working on a CD burner program, possibly for CD-RW discs (since those work
>more or less like a really big floppy disc).

Why not. as I said it just might be feasible.. Maybe connect a reader to the
bus and copy discs.. That would be a cool novelty item for the trendy
retrocomputing-person.

I've succesfully burned CDs at 2x on an A500 with only 4MB fast and an A590
controller.. Worked fine. The A590 manages 1,5MB/sec on a stock machine..
Quite impressive IMO.