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there's something about Prassi recording software that you can't quite put your finger on, something that immediately clears away any looming gloom or haziness of mind. Whether it is the accused and now-banned CD Right! or Prassi's newest product, Prima CD Plus--coded from a tabula rasa to prevent a return engagement with Adaptec and its litigious legerdemain--this recording software not only innovates, but innovates boldly. Maybe it's the fact that the self-contained setup.exe file is only 3MB in size. Maybe it's that the program itself consumes only 1 MB, or maybe it's that the whole thing, with all supporting files, including the help, takes up only 2MB on your hard disk. Maybe it's the fact that the installation process itself takes only five seconds. Five seconds, no kidding. And all that good feeling comes before you've even started the program.
feelin' good again
The good feeling continues as soon as you start the Primo CD Plus. Primo CD Plus doesn't use wizards, per se, and thank God they didn't hire animators to work With the programming staff like some other cartoon crazies whose names we won't name here. Instead, there are three "Starters," one each for CD Copy, Audio CD, and Data CD. Each of these acts like a self-contained program, although it calls Primo CD Plus proper for its functionality.
You could conceivably record audio and data CDs and copy CDs without ever entering the main program. Only for those tasks that are beyond the simple functions of the starter interface do you need to enter the program proper, although once you work with it a little it is also, not surprisingly, very easy to use.
The main interface looks a lot like Prassi's previous products, but with several enhancements. The two-paned window shows all attached CD-ROM drives and recorders in the left pane. The detail and feedback given to the user about the attached devices and any discs that might be...