While they were fragile and you had to handle with care, it made it really easy to load homebrew on in the early days of its public domain days. You could just burn the game to a disc and chuck it in, with minimal wear to load the rom into ram or what have you and thats it. It again feels like shovelware, but they were picking up development on their flagship CD title like black ice white noise around its release. Last 3 betas or so were 9/20/95 9/27/95 10/5/95, at least the ones that leaked, with 10/5/95 definitely being the last one made. With the CD attachment being released on 9/21/95. So you could tell they were being serious. Took them 2 hot weeks to realize it wasnt going to happen, after pumping in something like a million bucks into it for the shoestring operation that they had. Now theyre worth something stupid because out of 20,000 units sold I think half of them went back to Atari. Strictly for collectors.. the game drive and the emulator will get you there otherwise.

Heres a segment of cinepak off one of the beta discs.. extracted from one of the discs. its 15fps 240x180 natively, it could handle 24fps 320x240.