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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Spots who wrote (1684)	7/10/1998 9:11:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Sure. its Adaptec CD Creator 3.0 (upto 3.01b now) and Adaptec CD Creator Deluxe 3.0 (upto 3.01b now) Deluxe is unecessary. Its not the same as Easy CD Pro 2.01 or CD Creator 2.0 3.0 is a merger of the two programs one of which adaptec wrote and the other was formely Corel CD Creator. 3.0 features an amazing new buffer technology (it actually works) that allowed me to copy from a SCSI 6x IDE source to 2X Phillips writer directly and still be able to play quake at the same time. All other software I ever tried failed miserably even doing direct burns from a Hard Drive Image when I started to multi-task even slightly. Remeber this all on win 95 with P133. With any other software when I started a burn I wouldn't touch anything and then pray till it was done. Its got a very logical interface and does a good job with audio, data, and mixed CD's. A few flews. I'll detail them in a later post. The coaster proof technology though is a savior. It will still burn coasters if your source CD can't read files fast enough or sometimes burning over a network. The culprit in both these cases is exhorbitant #'s of very small files. It has the best interface and usability and reliability of any of the the following I have tried. Adaptec Easy CD Pro 2.11 Adaptec CD Creator 2.0 WinONCD (Big bucks wastte of money) Golden Hawk (smallest program, best mem consumption and CPU utilization, still burns coasters with multi-tasking) Nero (uses tons of CPU) Gear I haven't yet tried the one zeus got. Read a review in computer shopper last month and they complained about problems reproducing Live CD's with no gaps/clicks/or pops between tracks. It lacks some of the flexibilty of golden hawk for really esoteric stuff like custom indexing, subcodes, true sector by sector copy. Goldenhawks copier is great but their creation tool is far too complicated and lacks the robust buffering that Adaptec Easy CD Creator 3.0 offers. Goldenhawk copier does do TRUE sector based copying of virtually any type of disk. more later, gotta run, pizza man just pulled up.... Sean