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Toast Gets Yamaha F1 Extension
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
November 5th 2002
Make full use of DiscT@2 with this Toast plugin.
MagicMouse Productions have released Discus EE , a Toast plug-in that allows users to
laser etch CDs with Yamaha's F1 CDRW.
Yamaha introduced the DiscT@2 feature with its 44x24x44 F1 CDRW, which enables
graphics and lettering to be etched onto the unused portions of CDs. Audio CDs, for
example, can be tattooed with the name of the artist and album title.
While the F1 as a FireWire or IDE drive is supported by Toast, the Discus EE Toast
plugin incorporates the following features:
� Toast is designed to directly hook up to Discus EE to make it fast and easy to
create etch designs.
� The same powerful but easy functionality of Discus, with a nice shades-of-blue
realistic display of what you get on an etched disk.
� Automatically hooks up to Toast; it receives the percentage burned on the CDR and
shows you with a dotted line where you can begin your design.
� It automatically can import the Toast track names from audio projects
� You can quickly and easily create curved text.
Discus EE is available only on a CD (no downloads are offered) at $12. You can see the
results by checking out this screenshot.
Analysis: I'm saving the pennies for one of these F1s. Fast RW performance and
built-in etching. Some feel the DiscT@2 feature is frivolous and disc-wasting, but
it's also just plain cool and if you have space to spare on a CD, why not use it? And
I'll bet every CDRW rival will introduce a similar feature over the next 12 months, as
52x or 56x is about the ceiling for CDRW and they've got to sell these commodified CD
burners somehow.
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