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Old February 23rd, 2010, 07:21 PM
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Re: microstudio download

Microstudio and Hoster both got away from using ASPI to communicate with the drives because it was very limiting and for every drive had to have special code added. Since sometime in version 3 they have used a universal communication that is recognized and used by most CD/DVD drive brands. This opened it up so many drives can be used and not a limited few.
Plextor stopped making those drives with ASPI and stopped listing karaoke (CDG) format as guaranteed to work.
MTU now sells Optiarc drives that are made by Sony and NEC jointly. I haven't run into any of these that don't work. Maybe some of the other users will post some other brands to look for.
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