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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: HE-MAN on March 15, 2004, 02:28:18 PM

Title: floppy game work on your CDTV or CD32
Post by: HE-MAN on March 15, 2004, 02:28:18 PM

hi every one!

I wonder if anyone of you have done a bootable CD on CDTV and CD32 that is showed here (http://acdldp.emuunlim.com/bootablecdr.shtml)

I would like to be able to play games like Wings, Indiana Jones III, Operatin Stealth, Heimdall on my CD32. So I maybe are going to learn or try to do it, but it sounds pretty hard.

Title: Re: floppy game work on your CDTV or CD32
Post by: Orjan on March 15, 2004, 03:38:51 PM

Ive read it, and thought about it myself, and the next time Im ordering something, Ill take the developer disc too, and try it out... It seems simple enough, though...

Title: Re: floppy game work on your CDTV or CD32
Post by: Cyberus on March 15, 2004, 05:42:25 PM

I have also thought about this, and would like to do it. Let me know if you have any success - I have too much to do at the moment to do something like that!

Title: Re: floppy game work on your CDTV or CD32
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on March 15, 2004, 07:47:32 PM

Tried it, didn't work, both on CD32 and CDTV :-(

Maybe it works with Alcohol 120% instead of WinOnCD

Title: Re: floppy game work on your CDTV or CD32
Post by: HE-MAN on March 16, 2004, 11:35:51 AM

To bad, But it must be possible. Someone did a CD with 200 games on to CD32, so why should it not be possible to do one on a CD.

Title: Re: floppy game work on your CDTV or CD32
Post by: pjhutch on March 16, 2004, 12:45:19 PM

For Amiga games to work on CD32 you need a CD Burner that supports:

ISO/RockRidge File System (NOT Windows Joliet)
Correct Volume and Trademark IDs
If game is on multiple disks, then you need a startup script that will assign volume names to same CD volume or to different folders (you will need the Assign command)
Boot files (so C32 can boot off it)
A compatible CD Burner software.

Best way to test this is to try it with hardfiles in Winuae with all the files copied to it so you can test startup scripts and various settings.

Title: Re: floppy game work on your CDTV or CD32
Post by: Cyberus on March 16, 2004, 01:50:55 PM

When I thought about this before, I imagined the situation like this:
I can have a 650MB bootable partition on my hard disk. When I boot from this partition, I can run HD Installable games by clicking on their icons. I should be able to fit quite a few games on this partition.
Making a bootable CD, would just be a case of burning a copy of the the partition, taking into account the requirements for making a bootable CD on the CD32 - such as the .tm file. Can anyone explain why this wouldn't work?

Regards

Title: Re: floppy game work on your CDTV or CD32
Post by: smerf on March 21, 2004, 02:49:48 AM

Hi,

I have been trying to figure out how to burn software on CD's to play on CD32 myself, so far my count is 506 cd's no play and 0 play. oh well!

Amiga CD32 - SX-1 8 meg memory, Blizzard 604e 230 mhz, 68040 040, 64 meg memory, 2.2 gig hard drive. OS 3.9.

( on the blizzard card don't ask, my secret, Heh Heh)

smerf

Title: Re: floppy game work on your CDTV or CD32
Post by: leirbag28 on March 21, 2004, 03:06:21 AM

One good piece of advice is to:  burn your CD's at 1x or 2x because the CD32 has problems with CD's burned at higher speeds.

Also the CD doesnt have to be bootable.............once a shell window pops up just type something that will execute the Startup-sequence and the CD will run...I boot OS3.9 off a CD this way on a CD32

Title: Re: floppy game work on your CDTV or CD32
Post by: leirbag28 on March 21, 2004, 03:13:44 AM

By the way.look at this link..............Sony has been spying on Amiga, specifically the CD32/SX32 combo for their ideas for the Sony PS2

http://media.ps2.ign.com/articles/500/500522/img_2048989.html


Remember.they own Psygnosis!

Title: Re: floppy game work on your CDTV or CD32
Post by: justthatgood on March 21, 2004, 04:43:33 AM

@smerf



:lol:


You shouldn't keep secrets, they are too hard to keep when you are all toasted up :pint:  That's just my policy