Simple question about CD32 games

[orb85750]

Will they work on an A1200/4000 equipped with a CD ROM drive?

[Matt_H]

For the most part, yes, but it depends on the specific game. I've found SCSI CD drives to work better than IDE ones. The closer your system is to a stock 3.1 machine, the better results you'll have.

There's an old tool called CDBoot that mounts the CD drive very early in the startup-sequence and allows you to "boot" from CD32 discs. CacheCDFS and AsimCDFS also have CD32 emulation environments. There are also some useful tools in the CD32 devkit on the Amiga developer's CD - the cd.device wrapper is particularly handy.

[CLS2086]

The Registred IDEFIX'97 got a CD32 emulator  ;-)

[orb85750]

Matt_H wrote:
For the most part, yes, but it depends on the specific game. I've found SCSI CD drives to work better than IDE ones. The closer your system is to a stock 3.1 machine, the better results you'll have.

There's an old tool called CDBoot that mounts the CD drive very early in the startup-sequence and allows you to "boot" from CD32 discs. CacheCDFS and AsimCDFS also have CD32 emulation environments. There are also some useful tools in the CD32 devkit on the Amiga developer's CD - the cd.device wrapper is particularly handy.

Thanks for the info!  I think I actually own AsimCDFS somewhere in my closet.

[marcfrick2112]

Matt H: That's weird that SCSI drives work better than IDE... I thought the CD32 drive was some other interface type..  
   I can say that most of my cd32 games work on my 1200T, and my 4000's, but some need an actual CD32 controller to play them... and I only have 2...one belongs to my CD32  :-D

Is there any way to change CD32 settings in CacheCDFS?

[Matt_H]

RE: SCSI vs IDE

The caveat, of course, is YMMV :-). Judging from the docs on the Dev CD, it seems like a SCSI-equipped A4000 with a CD drive was Commodore's recommended development system.

In theory, yes, the interface type shouldn't matter, but my guess is the various cd.device emulators do a better job mapping to a SCSI controller.

[motrucker]

I have had the best luck with Asimware CDFS on my A1200 with a SCSI drive. As long as Chaos Engine runs, I'm happy...