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DiscPassage

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Category:	Reference
Year released:	1993
Author:	CMC ReSearch
Publisher:	CMC ReSearch

Download DiscPassage.img_.sit (380.57 KB)
For System 6.x - Mac OS 9

Manual

Emulation
This app works with: SheepShaver, Basilisk II, Mini vMac

Version 1.6 of DiscPassage is compatible to Macintosh SE/30 respective Mac II (and newer) models, while
version 1.4.5, which is also included in this download, runs on older hardware like Macintosh Plus or its emulator counterpart.

About DiscPassage:
DiscPassage is a program which provides a menu-driven user interface for accessing the information on your CD-ROM.
DiscPassage provides various means of accessing CD-ROM data, including a hierarchical "Contents" menu and "Search" and "Browse" facilities. In addition, DiscPassage offers facilities for displaying graphic images, printing text and images, playing sounds (if the CD-ROM has audio content) and copying text to user-named files.

DiscPassage will run properly only if there is a DiscPassage CD-ROM in the CD drive. DiscPassage CD-ROMs have the word "DiscPassage" or the word "CMC" printed on the CD-ROM or the CD-ROM jewel box.

Once DiscPassage has been installed on your hard drive, use the same installation to access all your DiscPassage CD-ROMs.
You may mount multiple number of DiscPassage CD-ROMs at once and browse to the desired CD-ROM from within DiscPassage's 'File' menu using its 'Discs' menu item.
If you pop in a DiscPassage CD-ROM that includes an Audio CD partition, DiscPassage may try to handle the Audio CD partition first, which will fail. In this case, just use the 'Disc' menu item in the File menu to select the data partition of that CD-ROM.

System Requirements for the Macintosh:
DiscPassage requires:

A Macintosh Plus or newer with CD-ROM drive.
System software 6.0.5 or greater
A minimum of 2 MB of RAM (2.5MB for Mac OS 7).
Color images require a color monitor; they are displayed
in 640x480 resolution in 256 colors. On a Color monitor, you need to have 32-bit QuickDraw enabled. Images automatically convert to black and white for the SE, Plus, and Classic.
DiscPassage operates under Finder or Multi-Finder environments,
as well as Mac OS 7.

Some DiscPassage CD-ROMs:
For a number of DiscPassage CD-ROMs available here at MacGarden, click this link:
Macintosh Garden/Engine/DiscPassage

That's not all what's available, there are other DiscPassage CD-ROMs as well, for example:
Yearbooks 1991 CD-ROM
American Family Physician (see Findarticles.com for details)

More Links about DiscPassage:
http://cd.textfiles.com/masterdisc/HELPTEXT
http://apple2.info/wiki/index.php?title=A2_Upgrades
http://apple2.info/wiki/index.php?title=Apple_II_CD-ROM#discQuest_Compat...

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Basilisk likes to crash when you quit DiscPassage 1.4.5 application, but works fine otherwise.
To get the CD-ROM recognized by DiscPassage, you may need to write-protect it, either in your host operating system or within the emulated Mac OS system.

Comments

by IIGS_User - 2010, June 24 - 4:16pm

Updated Download, Mirror and Readme to version 1.6
Version 1.4.5 is still included, for Mac Plus compatibility.

by IIGS_User - 2010, June 1 - 5:01pm

Added the manual, which is a summary of PC and Mac related Readme files found on DiscPassage CD-ROMs.

by IIGS_User - 2010, May 30 - 6:24pm

As for "Multimedia Audubon's Mammals CD-ROM" and "Multimedia Birds of America", I own these, too, but before uploading, I've to study the Guides to create Audio CD images.