Where's the MakeCD site?

[Paul_Gadd]

someone on here said Makecd cant do psx stuff, thats a bit weird...i mean.. did u actually check it out before you stated it?..

Clearly i said it can not copy protected titles, i used to burn PSX games with MakeCD and every protected game needed the Image patched with either Amippf or PSXHacker (excellent tool) before burning, MakeCD chokes on simple stuff.

Burning software on the Amiga has a hell of a long way to go.

@BoingBoss

You keep saying Adaptec, so i assume you mean Adaptec not Roxio? Adaptec =  :-) Roxio =  :-(

[B00tDisk]

BoingBoss wrote:
Hi B00tDisk,

Win98 SE.

Windows 98 Second Edition is THE best Windows for Home Use.

Windows 2000 and NT are THE best for business.

Windows XP Home and Professional Editions just plain SUCK!

My best friend uses Windows XP and he has had nothing but problems with it.  I on the other hand, continued to use Windows 98 Second Edition and I have NEVER had any problems.  My friend also uses the Nero software and now agrees with me that the Adaptec software is better.   :-)

Wow.  Your Friend.  What a computing authority!  Stop the presses, fire John Dvorak, we've got a real authority here!  Your Friend!   :roll:

Do you want to know what "sucks"?  Unsupported OS's.  And 98SE is slated to be unsupported, if it isn't already.  So bye-bye, DOS-based, lousy-file-system enabled OS.  Ta-ta!  NT4 is as dead as NT3.51.

As to your opinions on XP, since you equally straddle being a troll and a fool, I'll just give it all the consideration it deserves.

NONE.

[Holley]

Burning software on the Amiga has a hell of a long way to go.

Yeah, all the way to a new version of Fryingpan, lol.

ok, this is getting daft now, we're getting down to normal argumentative selective hearing, how did we get from 'where's the makeCD site gone' to arguing over weather this guy could give a flying rats behind about copy protected playstation games or what version of Windows is best [sic].

Ho hum ...

[rayt]

Windows 98 Second Edition is THE best Windows for Home Use.

Windows 2000 and NT are THE best for business.

I switched from 98se to 2000 about a year ago and all I can say is that 2000 is a much better os in general, also for home use. We have 2004 and no one should use msdos anymore But I agree that xp totally sucks.. win2000 is faster and less bloated than xp and much more stable and secure than 98.. its the only windoze version I would recommend, but who cares about windoze anyway..

[BoingBoss]

Hi B00tDisk,

Wow. Your Friend. What a computing authority! Stop the presses, fire John Dvorak, we've got a real authority here! Your Friend!

Actually, my best friend is a "computing authority".  He has been working with computers for almost as long as I have.

Do you want to know what "sucks"? Unsupported OS's. And 98SE is slated to be unsupported, if it isn't already.

Just because an OS is no longer supported does not mean that it is not a good OS.  Windows 98 Second Edition runs just fine on my Pentium 4 PC, so why should I use Windows XP?  I have both versions of Windows XP and have installed both.  I took each version back off my computer after using it for only one week and went back to Windows 98 Second Edition each time.

So bye-bye, DOS-based, lousy-file-system enabled OS.

Most of the best games for the PC computer are DOS based games.  Most of todays modern games that run on Windows XP suck!

As to your opinions on XP, since you equally straddle being a troll and a fool,

Are you attacking me personally?  Because if you are, try saying that crap to my face, punk!!!! :pissed:

[Paul_Gadd]

Yeah, all the way to a new version of Fryingpan, lol.

Yeah right :lol:

'where's the makeCD site gone' to arguing over weather this guy could give a flying rats behind about copy protected playstation games

If you read the thread, the PSX LibCrypt was only an example. hardcore Amiga users like to slag down Windows software at every available opportunity but they should take a long hard look at their antique featureless software before attacking other platforms.

Also i personally do not give a rats ass about MakeCD or FP, if they do what you need then thats great.

I will leave it there, as this thread has turned in to a Windows vs Windows battle.
 

[B00tDisk]

Are you attacking me personally?  Because if you are, try saying that crap to my face, punk!!!! :pissed:

Pretty sweet from a guy WHO HAS THREATENED AMIGA.ORG WITH DDOS ATTACKS.

Doomy, you're an authority on two things: jack and {bleep}, and jack just left town.  Any time you pop up with "advice" on Windows OR on the Amiga, I'll be right behind you making sure nobody's fool enough to take the bait and fall for it - or for your "deals", for that matter.

Come get some.

[lempkee]

paul_gadd:

well copy protected or not, amiga crackers cracked PSX stuff with and ON amiga , which means you can burn em on your amiga if thats what you want.

oh and MAKECD can burn VCD and SVCD for ages now (i just got it confirmed) along with other tools as Vcdimager (or what the hell its called) .

Alot of people turn their back to amiga because it doesnt "bloat" every tool up with endless of functions the general people wont ever have the need for.

some people call it power, but i like to call it bloatware.

i simply dont want a burner tool that can make a lager :-)
but im sure alot of people would.

[lempkee]

@boingboss , cant you just turn away or just grow up?

i'm more and more sure for everyday you post here that you aint for real , youre just here to mess the crap out of us and i for one is getting really sick of it.

SCRAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[Holley]

Paul - actually I think you'll find it's more a case of not caring about Windows than trying to slag it off - I don't think you'll find any diehard Amiga user said that MakeCD was better than any up to date PC burning program in this thread, you just seem to have come up with that all on your own ...

What it is is a utility that fits on one DD floppy and does everything that /most/ people want, just like all the good Amiga utilities.

ok, I'm done too now, lol :-)

[Brian Hoskins]

I use MakeCD regularly on my Amiga and it copes well with anything that I ever want it to do, basically it does what it says on the tin and I think that's fair enough.

I think it's a little daft to compare the likes of MakeCD with modern Windows packages which tend to be fully functional, all singing all dancing CD, VCD, DVD, file conversion and databackup programs.  It would be fair to say that these kinds of software packages easily outperform MakeCD in terms of what they can do.

With regard to MakeCD's ability to write CDs, which is what this argument originally started over (somebody suggested using a PC as it was a better solution) I think this is inaccurate.  MakeCD is quite capable of burning a CD just as quickly and effectively as any software on the PC, the difference is that the PC's hardware is far faster than the Amiga hardware so therefore it typically takes much longer on a (classic) Amiga to burn a CD than on a PC.  That has nothing to do with MakeCD's performance.

I think MakeCD is well in need of a major update now which includes an overhaul of it's GUI and more support for the needs of the modern computer user which I would agree includes support for DVD, VCD, and all the other toys that go with it.  I understand that you can actually burn a VCD using a combination of MakeCD and a third party program specific to VCD creation, but really this kind of support needs to be seamless in order to satisfy the needs of the average user.

We're back to the time-old argument that in order to get development on a computer platform you need users (customers) and in order to get users you need development.

Brian

[kd7ota]

BoingBoss wrote:

Windows 98 Second Edition is THE best Windows for Home Use.

Windows 2000 and NT are THE best for business.

Windows XP Home and Professional Editions just plain SUCK!

My best friend uses Windows XP and he has had nothing but problems with it.  I on the other hand, continued to use Windows 98 Second Edition and I have NEVER had any problems.  My friend also uses the Nero software and now agrees with me that the Adaptec software is better.   :-)

Well, all i can say is that Windows 98 SE for me slowly becomes unstable after awhile. No I dont randomly surf the net and have all sorts of adware or virsus, but it just stops working after a month or so.... So 98 is not great.

Windows 2000 did work out great for me, but was unsatisfied due to the fact that it kept bringing up the bluescreen and it couldn't be fixed.

Ahhh, the great Windows XP. Not a single single time it has ever crashed on me. Since a year ago i bought this motherboard and installed windows xp, this machine has been the most rock solid stable os i have ever used. No single lockup yet and runs faster then ever.

Adaptec software is crap in my personal opinion. Nero has to be the quickest and fastest software for burning. Burns my dreamcast games without a problem. Burns Music CDs and plays on all the CD players i have used it on, and even burned a data cd and works perefectly with the Amiga.

So if you think this Adaptec is all mighty great, keep it to yourself and dont mention it.

@everyone else

I dont want to be bashed if Windows XP sux  :-D  :-)

I was only posting my experience with XP so far, and all I got to say is its running very well.  :-)

Also, im some 18yr old kid telling Doomy whats up.  :-D

Also, if he comments 'you sound 18' or even younger then that, just point and laugh.  :-D  :lol:


**This post not to be taken personally.**

[alberonn]

Well, I got a private E-Mail from one of the guys who told me the site was back up. That was a big relief for me. Now I have the needed files. I plan on buying this sucker when I have the cash. I may have downloaded the newest version, but I need the key in the package to get rid of the small limitations the unregistered version has.

I was worried that these guys may have disappeared. That would of really sucked.

As to using a PeeCee to burn CD's, well I don't have one! In fact, I have some friends who want me to hunt for some files for thier PeeCee since they don't have Internet right now. Being able to burn a Joilet CD for them is a nice ability to have.

It also nice to have the software on hand to do periodic backups of my Amiga partitions as well. Not too helpful to try to do this with the Windoze system, even though I have an X-Surf II with the Samba drivers.

[alberonn]

Geeze, I ask if anyone knows what happened to the MakeCD site and I create a Windoze flame war? Not my idea of what would be in here, but hey, that's the joys of message boards. You'll never know how people will respond.

I am not really interested in Windows at all. Whenever I get an Intel box, I'm more interested in Mandrake Linux. I have seem some games that a friend has found that are also on the Windoze machine, but run and look really nice on his system. Mind you he has a fairly beefy setup.

And Mandrake does more then games I know, it was pretty easy, (as Linux goes) to install, it seems to run pretty fast and has some good tools that come with it that help in managing the system. I'd have a bit of a learning curve, but I like playing with and learning how to do stuff on my systems.

Would I dump My A4000 after getting that box? Well, in a word... No. I can easily network my system via the built-in router on my DSL modem. An Actiontec 1524 that Qwest sent me. (I was happy that I didn't have to buy a router when I went Broadband. Especially since I have a PS2 and a Gamecube with online games for both.)

If some of you guys think the Amiga is obsolete and trash, why the hell are you on Amiga message boards? You ain't gonna win any converts here. And flaming us is just going to convince us more that Windows users are a bunch of rabid sheep.

[drHirudo]

I have Amiga and PC sitting next to each other, but my CDWriter is on the Amiga, the bigger Hard Disk is on the Amiga and I use more the Amiga. I fryied lots of PC and Amiga CDs (also PSX CDs, plus some LiveCDs for the PC like the SyllableLiveCD and KnoppixMAME) and didn't have any problem. The post about using PC for Amiga CDs was totally irrelevant and shows the competence of the poster. In fact a friend had burned some CDs on PC and the come home wanting to burn them again (wasting blank CDs), because they were written not in order and his MP3 player had problems with the tracks order. So I rewrote in on the Amiga and everything was okay and he gave me the old CDs which he didn't need anymore. Yes, it's a little slower than it should be on up to date computer, on my Amiga, but considering it's 12 years old machine now, without a single hardware update, the CD and the HD are on same cable and the HD is on 5400RPM, I think it does the job perfect. Of course the Windows fans will try to correct me, but before any of them ask - I don't care if Nero/Adaptec/{Your favourite CD burning software here} does the work better. BTW I tried Nero and it crashed on the install, later I installed it but wasn't impressed and removed it.

[Paul_Gadd]

Yeah the thread has gone wacky  :lol:

Anyway glad you found MakeCD.