One (Amiga) company that creates their CDs under a non-Amiga system is Grasshopper LLC - the publisher of PageStream!
I had to change the CDFS, on my A2000, for their Icons and File Names to be rendered correctly. . . . . otherwise their Icons appeared as a truncated name ending in '.inf'
I'd come across this very thing with the FIRST CD-ROMs I ever bought! These were a couple of Multimedia CDs from
KNOWLEDGE MEDIA,
CA 95969 USA.
Their CD contained Graphic, Sound, Fonts, and Text files; along with various Applications for Amiga, Macintosh, MS DOS, Windows, and UNIX.
The Amiga application; a demo-version of VIVA (early Multimedia authoring tool), had all the part names rendered in MS DOS-type 8.3 character format; including the icons!
To reveal the disc contents on the Workbench; 'Show All files' was required. It had Amiga, DOS, Extras, Mac, and Media directories. Inside the Amiga directory was:
Amiga.dir
Amiga.tre
Amiga.txt
&
a Drawer named- "Viva".
Inside that, the files included "Vivaiicd.inf" & "Vivai_dm.inf" and "Rename.bat"!
This last was a TEXT file that went:
Rename DEMO AS Demo
Rename VIVAI_DM.INF AS VIVAII_DEMO.info
Rename VIVAI_DM AS VIVAII_DEMO
Rename VIVA.DFS AS viva.defs
Rename VIVAIICD.INF AS VIVAIICD.info
; File VIVAIICD Not Renamed
After copying the Viva directory to my A2000, I simply 'PASTED' that file into a Shell, and pressed RETURN to correctly name the Files and turn those '________.INF' Files into Amiga Icons!
