A 3DO title uses the CD-ROM as its data storage medium. CD-ROM technology,
and its use in multimedia applications is still in its infancy. As The 3DO
Company and its developers have worked with the CD-ROM device over the
past year they learned a lot about maximizing drive performance and about
the capabilities and limits of the medium.
This appendix presents a collection of this information. It is intended to
help you understand the issues involved and provide guidelines methods for
creating titles for the CD-ROM drive.
The 3DO Company and its developers are forging new frontiers in CD-ROM
technology, pushing the technology to its limits. With careful and
well-planned execution, programmers can increase CD-ROM drive performance
and reliability by employing several techniques for reducing head seeking,
and making sure that they gracefully recover from data errors or
slower-than-expected data delivery.