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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Stew on November 10, 2004, 01:52:30 AM

Title: Amiga Forever and CDRom support
Post by: Stew on November 10, 2004, 01:52:30 AM
  I have not used Amiga Forever in a long time. (I had a state of the art 450mhz P3 at the time). I never had tried to get the cd working. Does the new Amiga Forever have CD support? Can AsimCDFS work under emulation with an ide cd drive? Is there a tutorial on this somewhere?

  Thanks all!
Title: Re: Amiga Forever and CDRom support
Post by: gurgel on November 10, 2004, 04:35:08 PM
Well, I have one Amiga Forever 6.0 and it installs the Workbench 3.5, wich has support for CD-Rom in it.
Just insert the cd in your drive and icons will appear in your screen.
Title: Re: Amiga Forever and CDRom support
Post by: Stew on November 10, 2004, 07:30:07 PM
 Sound great I will have to buy it! Thanks
Title: Re: Amiga Forever and CDRom support
Post by: Stew on November 10, 2004, 07:44:32 PM
 I have one more question about Amiga Forever 6. Can I copy my hard drive from an Amiga onto a Jazz disk and boot from it on the PC?  Would save all that configuring to get my workbench to the pc.
Title: Re: Amiga Forever and CDRom support
Post by: gurgel on November 10, 2004, 08:09:33 PM
You mean that you want to copy your Workbench from your Amiga to PC using a Jazz drive and then start the emulation ?
In this case I think it's all right !
Title: Re: Amiga Forever and CDRom support
Post by: Samuar on November 10, 2004, 08:41:17 PM
...whereas actually trying to boot off the Jaz drive would be a painfully slow experience - being a tape drive and all.
Title: Re: Amiga Forever and CDRom support
Post by: Stew on November 11, 2004, 01:12:04 AM
  The Jazz drive is a cartridge system.Each cart is seen as a hard drive with it's own rdb. The drive is about as fast as any of the Amiga  hard drives I have had. The controller is the limiting factor in the Amigas. I have used them to boot the Amiga by setting the boot priority to the Jazz first. As long as a bootable disk is present it will boot whatever workbench I have on there. I had 3.1, 3.5 and 3.9 all on thier own disks. Did not increase my boot times noticeably.