# CD-ROM Mastering Etiquette

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.

Click on any of the topics below to select it:

- CD-ROM Basics
- Programming Do's and Don'ts
- Head Seeks and CD-ROM Mechanism Lifetime
- Optimization Issues

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.