On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, John Shepherd wrote:

I found that the only way I could read the multimedia stuff was using an old PC with CD-ROM DOS drivers installed - the windows CD drivers on the same machine wouldn't recognise it! ...I ended up copying the entire data portion via a DOS session (I think it's about 100 - 200 Meg) to hard disk, dropped back into windows and ran it from hard disk. Pretty tortuous procedure (and not for the technically illiterate!), but it's actually worth it - "disk" still puts a lot of todays "enhanced" CDs to shame!

ahh, there's an idea. i've got "disk", too, and have never used the multimedia portion cuz i never got it to work. i will look into this.

An electronics shop near me used to sell the format (this was in the late 80s) - the only thing I really remember was that the rack of available titles was laughably small, and they had a demo disk of madonna permanently fixed in the machine. I seem to recall that Front 242 released a CDV single (possibly headhunter?) somewhere along the line too...

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