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Offline magneticTopic starter

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PARNET A1200 to CDTV for CD Rom Usage??
« on: May 08, 2011, 03:41:32 AM »
Hey guys Like the title says, how feasable is it for me to Parnet a CDTV and A1200 together so the A1200 can use the cd rom drive to install software?
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Re: PARNET A1200 to CDTV for CD Rom Usage??
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2011, 03:48:41 AM »
Parnet was awesome back in the day!
Did that with my a4000 and my cdtv when i ran a bbs .. Had the whole fred fish cd going.. the disk images and individual files.. Those were the days!

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Re: PARNET A1200 to CDTV for CD Rom Usage??
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2011, 03:49:57 AM »
Dunno, but I'd bet the $25 for a buffered interface is better than the hassle.
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Re: PARNET A1200 to CDTV for CD Rom Usage??
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2011, 04:14:28 AM »
Quote from: magnetic;636465
Hey guys Like the title says, how feasable is it for me to Parnet a CDTV and A1200 together so the A1200 can use the cd rom drive to install software?


I don't know about Parnet, but I used to have my A3000 hooked up to my PC using Siamese and a serial link.  I installed OS3.9 that way off the disk in the PC's drive and all I can say is it was very slow.  Very, very, very slow.  How speeds over the parallel port compare to the serial port on the A3000 I couldn't say, but if speed isn't an issue then go for it.  :)
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Re: PARNET A1200 to CDTV for CD Rom Usage??
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2011, 02:41:33 PM »
I think Parallel is a little faster than Serial, but it's still going to be very, very slow.
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Re: PARNET A1200 to CDTV for CD Rom Usage??
« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2011, 02:48:35 PM »
My first CDROM was an A570 equipped 500 parnetted to my 3000. Peak speed was about 50 KB/s - 150 KB/s is 1x speed. Better get an IDE CD drive.
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Re: PARNET A1200 to CDTV for CD Rom Usage??
« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2011, 02:51:09 PM »
I had the network package for the CD32 to my A1200, which used the serial port (via the CD32 keyboard socket!), and it was slow - the software gave the option of different speeds, but the higher the speed, the more likely the link was to drop which meant a reboot of both machines to re-establish.

Parnet will work, so it is feasible, and it will be faster as the Parallel port is faster than the serial but speeds will still be MUCH slower than using a CD rom drive and an IDE interface directly on the A1200.
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Re: PARNET A1200 to CDTV for CD Rom Usage??
« Reply #7 on: May 08, 2011, 03:48:24 PM »
parnet works quite well, sernet not so much.
I used ParNet a lot in the earlier years..
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Re: PARNET A1200 to CDTV for CD Rom Usage??
« Reply #8 on: May 08, 2011, 04:04:55 PM »
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Re: PARNET A1200 to CDTV for CD Rom Usage??
« Reply #9 on: May 08, 2011, 04:57:05 PM »
I used this back before I had a CD-ROM for my 2000HD. It doesnt really act as an Amiga CD-ROM (not as a device) but does work okay for copying files and such. It is slow both because the CDTV CD is slow and becasue parnet isn't that speedy.
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Re: PARNET A1200 to CDTV for CD Rom Usage??
« Reply #10 on: May 08, 2011, 07:34:16 PM »
I used to use a parnetted CDTV with my A1200 too before I bought an IDE cdrom. It worked quite well but was slooow.
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