Overclock your 32x or 40x Artec or Aopen to 48x!!!
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 3:19 pm[TITLE EDITED SEE BELOW]
Reason I ask is as follows:
I've been having a look at the Artec 48x CDRW drive. The latest ones seem to have a firmware version which is a bit more media friendly (still picky but it seems to work to an acceptable standard with Ritek and Prodisc 48x media).
Meanwhile I've ascertained that it's highly likely that the 32x and 40x Artec drives (and therefore 32x and 40x Aopen ones as well as they are firmware-compatible) may be overclocked to the 48x firmware -- the circuit board and chipset are near-identical, and totally different to Artec's new 52x drive (which is quite an impressive piece of kit from first impressions).
The problem is I can't get the firmware for the 48x writer. If there was a hacked version of the Ricoh installer available that could backup the old firmware to a file even without a replacement one that'd be ideal, as would a version that installed firmware regardless of whether the ID's matched (as all Ricoh installers have a backup facility).
Anyone know where I can get one of these?
Reason I ask is as follows:
I've been having a look at the Artec 48x CDRW drive. The latest ones seem to have a firmware version which is a bit more media friendly (still picky but it seems to work to an acceptable standard with Ritek and Prodisc 48x media).
Meanwhile I've ascertained that it's highly likely that the 32x and 40x Artec drives (and therefore 32x and 40x Aopen ones as well as they are firmware-compatible) may be overclocked to the 48x firmware -- the circuit board and chipset are near-identical, and totally different to Artec's new 52x drive (which is quite an impressive piece of kit from first impressions).
The problem is I can't get the firmware for the 48x writer. If there was a hacked version of the Ricoh installer available that could backup the old firmware to a file even without a replacement one that'd be ideal, as would a version that installed firmware regardless of whether the ID's matched (as all Ricoh installers have a backup facility).
Anyone know where I can get one of these?
Maybe it was Front Page that converted them, but those pictures in .jpg format are 5 to 10 times more bytes than they need to be, and not as clear. This is particularly so for the CD Doctor graph, which I know started out life as a perfectly sharp 6-7 kByte .png file (as compared to the blurry around the edges 61 kByte .jpg version). While JPEG is great for photographs, PNG (and even GIF) are usually better for screen shots with their sharp edges and large runs of constant color.
I wasn't criticizing, just offering some helpful suggestions.