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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Cyberus on February 14, 2004, 12:21:19 AM

Title: Making bootable CD32 cds
Post by: Cyberus on February 14, 2004, 12:21:19 AM

How is this possible, to make a bootable CD, such as a Workbench cd for example....
Can you just burn a CD the same way you'd make a bootable hd partition?

Title: Re: Making bootable CD32 cds
Post by: that_punk_guy on February 14, 2004, 12:27:40 AM

Hmmm... It might be worth having a gander at some Amiga Format CDs. They ditched CD32 support a few months before closing down but for a long time their CDs were CD32-bootable.

Er, in short... I dunno... ;-)

Title: Re: Making bootable CD32 cds
Post by: Castellen on February 14, 2004, 02:16:32 AM

From the MakeCD AmigaGuide manual:


CDTV/CD32 Boot Options
----------------------

Activate `Add CDTV settings to image' if you want the CD to be bootable
on the CD32 and/or CDTV.

The Commodore documentation as to the meaning of `FL nodes', `FH
nodes', `Retries', `Fast Search', `Data cache', `Dir cache', `Speed
Index' and `Direct read' is somewhat vague. Nonetheless, MakeCD
permits you to change these values. By all means tinker with these
options and judge how they affect performance on the CDTV/CD32. You can
usually leave the values as they are.

It is important that you chose a correct trademark file, otherwise the
CD will not boot. Trademark files can be found on the AMIGA Developer
CD v1.1 in the `CD32/ISO9660Tools_V1.04/ISOCD' directory. Choose either
`CDTV.TM' or `CD32.TM'. Please note that these files cannot be included
with MakeCD due to license rights.