Is the Dragon Archive CD-ROM any good?

[Tsyr]

Yes it does have some flaws. The search engine is fairly primitive. It is a pain to use because of constant CD swapping. How many CD's does it have - 4? 6? I don't recall off the top of my head. Also, it seems to want to lock up on me after I use it for an extended length of time.

But it is so useful and entertaining, it is still worth the money. My advice is to copy all of the pdf's to your harddrive. Get a full copy of Acrobat. Now you can index all of the pdf's in acrobat and use its search function to go thru all of the issues at once with no disk swapping. You also could probably copy all of the pdf's to one dvd disk to avoid it eating up all of your harddrive space.

Actualy, a friend and I were just talking about that today... We're gonna try to use his DVD burner and burn all 5 CDs onto a single DVD... He thinks he can set it up in such a way that it will work. I'm sceptical, but he is fairly good with stuff like that.

Less than legal? ....hmmm... I dunno if that's covered in the "single backup" clause that so many software licenses have... But it's for my personal use only, so... *shrug*

 

[Tsyr]

But, uh, yeah. It's a very, very good product.

 

[Tsyr]

One last thing...

I would also like to point out that if, like me and some others on this board, you at all are interested in Hackmaster, this is something I would consider a 100% "must buy". While hackmaster is modified from Basic/1E/2E, it's not by as much as 3E... most of the rules in there will work just fine for Hackmaster.