summary doubledisk gold v hi netters as promised here are the summary of opinions on doubledisk gold v people seem to be quite happy with the product there is no much of opinion on how good it is compared to the industry leader stacker superstor pro is not considered since it is slower than stacker although just as reliable byte magazine s conclusion so it s hard to make any decision to go with stacker or with doubledisk gold v however it seems that at it is quite a buy buddy christyono buddy optics ece wisc edu summary of replies hello buddy i do not have dd gold experience i just ordered it i currently have dd the last version i am very pleased with its performance here is my suggestion if you do not have any compression software currently i would go with dos s compression all the discussion on the net indicates that for you get the compression built into the os plus the other utilities that you would pay way more than for besides you are now at dos whatever that means if you have doubledisk already like i do the cost is for the upgrade after thinking about it and asking the net i decided that i could not go wrong with the update cost i have never suffered from performance of dd i have a ms hd with large sw packages in both compressed and uncompressed format it works great not delays i think the a is better than b arguements are a lot of bunk they are all comparable in performance i am looking forward to being able to loadhigh the dd sw that has been an annoyance if you have stacker et al currently i would not see it worth the effort to upgrade just my regards mark bagdy buddy i got the same mailer about weeks ago i got ddg and installed it the documentation was in my opinion easy to follow i used the automatic installation not the custom and everything went smoothly there were some specific instructions on a readme file for dealing with max qemm ddg has an uninstall unlike dos if you need it my system has a mb hard drive before installing ddg i had mb free after ddg i had mb free pretty good statistics considering that my mb permanent windows swap file stayed on the uncompressed portion along with other drivers and such i have had no problems whatsoever i have noticed no slowdown other than it takes a little longer to boot either in windows or dos so far i am a very happy camper bruce bruce f steinke never know when you re going to bsteinke dsd es com need a good piece of rope software technical support engineer sam gamgee evans sutherland computer corp my mail my opinions i have been using doubledisk gold for a little more than a month on a dx mhz mb seagate drive running dos windows in enhanced mode i ran some tests and concluded that the speed of a doubledisk drive with a drive read cache is about equal to the bare drive without a cache i have no complaints about reliability it was very easy to install the only problem i had was with castle wolfenstein d i assumed the game was trying to bypass dos disk access and moved the game to the non compressed region of the disk since then the game has never given me a problem there was never any damage to the doubledisk drive compression performance for the whole disk has held steady around this is lower than expected but about size of my files are compressed image files and some large zip files if you have any more specific questions let me know dan i bought it an have been happy with it i use it on both mfm and ide mb drives i was using doubledisk before gold came out that is the same product msdos is shipping with no problems with either product ron bjornseth bjornset pogo den mmc com end of messages
