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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: crawff on August 26, 2009, 03:48:12 PM

Title: A1200 into a CD32
Post by: crawff on August 26, 2009, 03:48:12 PM

Hi,

If i brought an a1200 would it be possible to a buy a external CD drive and effectively turn it into a CD32 and it will play all the CD32 games etc..?

thanks

Title: Re: A1200 into a CD32
Post by: amiga1260 on August 26, 2009, 04:17:52 PM

It's possible to play CD32 games on a A1200 with external CD drive. You could use the Squirrel SCSI driver disk to make a bootable CD32 disk or install it on your HD.

To make it more compatible you need kickstart 3.1.

Title: Re: A1200 into a CD32
Post by: crawff on August 26, 2009, 04:25:53 PM

Thats great - thanks for the reply.

I currently have a Minimig and might have to sell it to buy a1200.

For some reason i want some original hardware!!

Title: Re: A1200 into a CD32
Post by: Piru on August 26, 2009, 04:26:28 PM

Quote from: crawff;520982

Hi,

If i brought an a1200 would it be possible to a buy a external CD drive and effectively turn it into a CD32 and it will play all the CD32 games etc..?

It's not possible to play all games, A1200 doesn't have the Akiko c2p hardware.

Title: Re: A1200 into a CD32
Post by: jj on August 26, 2009, 04:27:24 PM

Which is also used by some games I believe for some weird loading routines.

Title: Re: A1200 into a CD32
Post by: crawff on August 26, 2009, 04:29:42 PM

Hmmm... thats interesting to know.

I have read people talking about WHDload? will that enable me to load CD32 games from my harddrive?

Maybe im barking up the wrong tree?

Title: Re: A1200 into a CD32
Post by: jj on August 26, 2009, 04:48:55 PM

Yes there are some WHDLoad for CD32 games

Title: Re: A1200 into a CD32
Post by: zipper on August 26, 2009, 05:20:19 PM

I did a quick search on WHDLoad site for CD32 and got 70 hits.

Title: Re: A1200 into a CD32
Post by: Cammy on August 26, 2009, 07:03:12 PM

I could never get Microcosm to work on the A1200 with Squirrel SCSI emulation, but all the other games I tried worked. If you play WHDLoad-installed CD32 games, you will often miss out on hearing the music due to a lot of CD32 games using CDDA tracks instead of MODs for their music.

Title: Re: A1200 into a CD32
Post by: amiga1260 on August 26, 2009, 10:01:35 PM

I played Microcrosm with my A1200 and the Squirrel CD32 emulation without problems.

Title: Re: A1200 into a CD32
Post by: jj on August 26, 2009, 10:53:51 PM

I also played that with no trouble with an archos overdrive and cd32 emulaion.

I have got a boxed in perfect condition copy, god its a crap game

Title: Re: A1200 into a CD32
Post by: NovaCoder on August 27, 2009, 12:38:11 AM

Yep thanks to the efforts of the WHDLOAD team you can (almost) get the full CD32 experience on a 1200 sans a CDROM drive. As Cammy mentions you'll often miss out on music/speech....check out Beneath a Steel Sky for a job done well (as long as you have 129mb FAST RAM).

Another option is to do wireless connection to your Windoze machine and connect to it's DVD/CDROM drive using EasyNet (it appears as an icon on your WB just like a normal Amiga drive), I've never got this working myself but I've heard that other people have so you may be able to use this method to play CD32 games.