Time to soup up those CD-ROMs

Roderick Manhattan has secured republishing rights for a US software product which promises to get users CD-ROM drives working as fast as their hard drives.

The software comes in two versions. d-Time 95 which soups up the CD drives of Windows 95 users and d-Time 10 which does the same for DOS or Windows 3.1 machines.

According to Roderick Manhattan d-Time increases the speed of the CD-ROM drive by using the PCs hard drive, which is 100 times cheaper than using a Ram cache but 10-60 times faster than a CD-ROM drive. The technology works by selecting critical information from the CD-ROM and storing it in an acceleration file on the hard drive for future retrieval.

General manager Jacqui Vause said: