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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: redneon on February 23, 2005, 10:14:52 AM

Title: Use CD32 as A1200 CDROM Drive?
Post by: redneon on February 23, 2005, 10:14:52 AM: Is there any way I can use my CD32 as a CDROM drive for my A1200? Preferably so it actually shows up as CD0 but I don't particularly mind.

Darrell
Title: Re: Use CD32 as A1200 CDROM Drive?
Post by: Trooper on February 23, 2005, 11:49:58 AM: Yes there is, But you will need another piece of hardware called the communicator If you can find one. This is a box that connects to the serial port on the side of the CD32, But is really only useful for transfering files.

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=695 (http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=695)

The transfer rate is extremely slow because it is via the serial port, So is not practical for running game on. I used to use one and i think i still have it. I had tried running a few game with it and most of them would crash. Thoughs that did run took ages to load, Got bored and gave up.

Get yourself squirrel scsi interface and a scsi cd-rom drive or a buffered ide interface and a ide cd-rom drive. These combinations will be so much more useful than hooking up a very slow serial connection between your 1200 and CD32.

Trooper
Title: Re: Use CD32 as A1200 CDROM Drive?
Post by: keropi on February 23, 2005, 11:55:15 AM: @redneon:
you maybe needing this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5166814846&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT
Title: Re: Use CD32 as A1200 CDROM Drive?
Post by: adonay on February 23, 2005, 01:46:17 PM: does someone here rememmber those white cd 32 lookalike cd addons for the 1200 used pcmcia slot.is there no way to network a cd 32 other then serial what about sx ??? would be better to mount network cd drive as cdo.or if you have a pc(WINX86) mount the shared cd rom on the pc as cd1 possibly cd0 and rock and roll..

adonay 8-)
Title: Re: Use CD32 as A1200 CDROM Drive?
Post by: redneon on February 23, 2005, 01:59:44 PM: I do own Network PC from Weird Science. But my understanding was that PC drives didn't read Amiga CDs properly. That's why I wanted to use the CD32. Can Network PC work over TCP/IP? Because if it can it wouldn't be that slow anyway. But I don't think Network PC can mount as CD0.

Darrell
Title: Re: Use CD32 as A1200 CDROM Drive?
Post by: keropi on February 23, 2005, 02:04:05 PM: so what if u use pcmcia? on my system with a 060/50 the pcmcia 10MBPS lan connection is ~50-60 kb/sec...
I don't know if I missed a setting, but it's not that fast...
Title: Re: Use CD32 as A1200 CDROM Drive?
Post by: adonay on February 23, 2005, 02:12:58 PM: Quote

keropi wrote:
so what if u use pcmcia? on my system with a 060/50 the pcmcia 10MBPS lan connection is ~50-60 kb/sec...
I don't know if I missed a setting, but it's not that fast...

well it is an alternative if you dont want to buy new stuff so you can add cd to your 1200.

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But my understanding was that PC drives didn't read Amiga CDs

never had anny problems so far here used stuff like os3.9 disc .HEIMDAL 2 ++++games .cucd"s from 96-97 no problems.but be aware dont try to play games on network this is slow use whdloads for cd 32 games and install on disk(hd)

adonay
Title: Re: Use CD32 as A1200 CDROM Drive?
Post by: adolescent on February 23, 2005, 03:58:17 PM: @keropi

You should be getting much faster than 50-60KB/s on that setup. But, what TCP/IP stack are you using, and more importantly how are you measuring the 50-60KB/s speed. (ie. FTP has much less overhead than SMB traffic.)
Title: Re: Use CD32 as A1200 CDROM Drive?
Post by: GPT on February 23, 2005, 07:40:41 PM: With my pcmcia card 10Mbit/s i get 400-500 kbit at best with a Blizzard 603/200 060/50 96Mb and BVision.
And it's all on my towered A1200.
Title: Re: Use CD32 as A1200 CDROM Drive?
Post by: Piru on February 23, 2005, 08:10:56 PM: @keropi

I managed to get over 850 KB/sec speeds with ftp, on A1200 BPPC 060 and pcmcia nic.
Title: Re: Use CD32 as A1200 CDROM Drive?
Post by: FrankBrana on February 23, 2005, 09:30:01 PM: IIRC cu Amiga magazine , in one of his numbres that came with that little CD32 libretto inside, showed a cable conection for cd32 to 1200.

I think it was a simple cble, no box at all.

Maybe someone has the schematics which IIRC came with the magazine.

Regards