Southern California Distribution Issue 01 Part 08

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                  CD-ROM Informational Update 
                                         Updated Nov. 24, 1990 

Games Market: 
      Sierra has announced its official format of the CD-ROM systems. 
The systems will hopefully be avilable by March, 1991, and will carry 
a retail price of roughly under 800 dollars. The package will include 
a CD-ROM set, SoundBlaster, Sound Mixer, and a few CD-ROM games(NOT 
KQ5, SQ4.. etc). The CD-ROM drive, according to Sierra, will be at least 
500 ms in seeking time, hopefully will be 200 ms. The CD-ROM games will 
be released in Spring of 1991. Extra information indicate that Sierra is 
NOT going to use CD-AUDIO for ALL the music, instead, it will use the 
SoundBlaster for Speech, maybe some music, and lots of music will come 
from the PC Speaker, or via the Mixer. No other details are given. 

Multi-Media/Inprovements upon CD-AUDIO: 
      CD-ROM Informational Storage Standards XA and DVI will soon replace 
CD-AUDIO in the computer field because of their ability to store much more 
data(As in picture and music) than the standard CD-AUDIO. Both of these are 
VERY expensive, and they won't dominate the game market for a while. 

                                            -NewsCenter/SCD