Shadow of the beast on CDTV

[alexh]

i wish to play Shadow of the beast on my CDTV...

Should be possible. Very possible if you have an external floppy drive.

Ah, you know any Amiga external floppy drive will work. Doesn't have to be a CDTV one.

is it possible find an ISO to play this game from CD?

There was no CDTV version of this game and so no ISO files exist, unless an enthusiast has made one using the WHDload hard drive installer.

I was thinking that probably disk and CD games are quite similar... (i.e. Turrican II).

Nope they are not.

I thought: not just change the startup sequence to boot from CD and leave the files on the floppy as they are?

Just not possible. Most games do not have file loaders but disk loaders. They hit the floppy disk hardware directly instead of going through the Operating System. You may be able to load the first file but as soon as the program goes to load more data it will not work.

You could make your own ISO, it will require you using the Amiga SDK(for the CDTV boot files), WHDload + Shadow of the Beast slave, MakeCD and WinUAE.

You'd have to read up on how to make CDTV bootable discs. (Probably want to use more than once source)

Shouldn't take more than 20-30 mins to learn and another 20-30 mins to execute. First you should ascertain if your CDTV can read CD-R discs before

[alexh]

Ah, the answer is no then. You cannot play Shadow of the Beast on YOUR CDTV.

You're gonna have to buy either an external floppy drive.

Or new ROM's for your CDTV (Remember that you need both CDTV and Kickstart ROMs)