Date   : Fri, 15 Jan 1993 14:26:09 CST
From   : hanscom@eid.anl.gov (roger hanscom)
Subject: Re: MediaMaster

In <1993Jan13.161405.23310@wixer.cactus.org> Lindsay Haisley writes:

>I have seen references to a product for DOS called MediaMaster which enables
>the reading and writing of files to and from a variety of CP/M floppy
>formats.  Who puts this product out, and what is their address, phone or
>email address.
>
>To avoid unnecessary net traffic, let it be said that I already have 22DISK
>and am aware of the capabilities of Uniform-PC.  The information is for a
>friend who is looking for a program to work with a CP/M disk format not
>supported on either of these products.

The company is Intersecting Concepts.  I don't have their address or
phone number handy just now.  Be careful of MediaMaster.  They advertise
bunches of CP/M formats, but I suggested it to a colleague of mine and
after paying a very high price for the software, he found it wouldn't
work for his format.  He asked me to try it on some others, and I was
not able to read the only 2 other formats that were on their list of
formats supported, and available to me.  When I tried to talk to them
about the problem over the phone, they were very rude, and no help at all.

As I have said before, others have tried the product and liked it.  Perhaps
it works with the more common formats.  My experience was quite different.
I use, and swear by, 22DISK.

I suggest that you have your friend buy a supported copy of 22DISK.  The
vendor claims that they will help a user define just about any format to
the program.  If your friend decides to buy MediaMaster, please...please..
get him/her to try (somehow) out the particular format of interest *BEFORE*
he/she writes the check

            roger            hanscom@athens.eid.anl.gov