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Offline CyberusTopic starter

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Copying an unreadable Amiga CD
« on: July 08, 2003, 11:55:28 PM »
One of my friends presented me with a CD in the pub earlier - Tower Assault. He had seen it in a charity shop and bought it for me. He must have eagle-eyes, as most of my friends wouldn't even know an Amiga game if hit them in the face, but to find one amongst all the crappy hits of the eighties CDs is no mean feat...

Anyway, I got it home after the pub, popped it into the CD-ROM of my towered A1200 and it just doesn't like it at all. I've looked at the CD, and it doesn't seem particularly scratched or anything (apart from the odd superficial one); I tried cleaning the CD, and this doesn't help either. Now in the past I've had music CDs that play on some (usually newer/better) CD players and not others. So perhaps my aged 4X CD-ROM might not be able to read it, but a newer player might...

So is it possible I could take it to a PC owning friend with a CD writer, whose CD drive might be more likely to read it, and he could try and copy it to a nice new CD-R? Forgive my ignorance, but I do not have a CD-writer, and didn't know if you can just copy an image of a CD or if has to be PC filesystem to make a copy.
Perhaps this is technically piracy, but I do own an original copy!
I like Amigas
 

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Re: Copying an unreadable Amiga CD
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2003, 12:06:36 AM »
With a toothbrush???
Perhaps some iron wool or a brillo pad would be better.... :-D
I like Amigas