Syncronys SoftCorp has a strategic alliance with Optical Access International, of Woburn, Massachusetts, to license, co-develop and exclusively distribute a Macintosh-based CD-ROM accelerator that will include OAI’s SuperCache technology. SuperCache has until now been developed and marketed as high-performance CD-ROM driver software for Mac-based server applications, and is currently under license to Apple Computer. It should boost the performance of CD-ROM-based games, multimedia and refererence titles, and should emerge in the middle of November, according to Syncronys. The company already plans to launch a PC-based CD-ROM accelerator called CD-RAM at around the same time. Syncronys – which achieved notoriety last year when it was forced to withdraw its Windows 95 SoftRAM random-access-memory doubler after complaints it didn’t work – is attempting to re-build its reputation with a raft of seven new products due out before year-end. Two – RAM Charger 3.0 and MacAccess2 – are already out. The others are SoftRAM 3.0, CD-RAM, the OAI Mac CD-ROM accelerator, and two unnamed products. Syncronys is based in Culver City, California.
