From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English)
Subject: Re: Three cheers for free CD-ROMS!
Date: 1997/11/18
Date: 1997-11-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <64rr1u$4be@saturn.brighton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8767qa6g46.fsf@mihalis.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me
Chris Morgan (mihalis@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: I can testify that John's CD is fantastic. I find the Walnut Creek
: CD-ROM to be a mix of the latest and greatest and a _lot_ of old
: obsolete junk. It is the ultimate resource but you need to spend time
: sifting the wheat from the chaff. On John's disc he has spent that
: time for you.
: Windows95 is pretty much essential however (a surprising hurdle at my
: last place, almost no serious Ada people had made the move yet).
No, it'll work with Win 3.1... but then, of course, the only GNAT version
you can use is 3.07 for DOS.
: (p.s. keep it to yourself, but my copy at least had shareware Doom on
: it as well).
...and Quake, and some others; after all, it's aimed at *students*... :-)
(Some of the games include source code, so that's another excuse.)
Incidentally, in case you hadn't heard, Mike Feldman has kindly agreed
to handle North American distribution; full details at the CD website
(see my .sig).
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-29 0:00 Three cheers for free CD-ROMS! Debora Weber-Wulff
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1997-10-30 0:00 ` John English
1997-10-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-11-01 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-11-02 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1997-11-17 0:00 ` Lynch
1997-11-17 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1997-11-18 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1997-11-18 0:00 ` John English [this message]
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