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Re: Minimum requirements for CD recording on an A2500?
« on: October 28, 2003, 06:13:54 PM »
You'll need MakeCD or BurnIT software packages, both are commercial but you can try out the demos on Aminet.

But I'll tell you this right now: you're going to struggle to be able to burn with an 030 and 9MB of ram.
 

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Re: Minimum requirements for CD recording on an A2500?
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2003, 09:04:13 PM »
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But I'll tell you this right now: you're going to struggle to be able to burn with an 030 and 9MB of ram.

Why is that? All I want to do is format Amiga CDs and copy files to the CDs. What I already have should be MORE then enough to do this.


No, it's not. CD writers aren't simple recorders: they need a constant stream of data while writing or they skip and the cd is ruined.

An 030 just isn't up to this. I can do it on 040/25 - which is twice the speed of an 030/50 - but I need 64MB of cache. And that's with burnproof (JustLink and JustSpeed). Any less ram, or if I try to do something else in the background, and it's coaster time.