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Offline Hyperspeed

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Re: Amiga games on cd, can this be done?
« Reply #14 from previous page: July 21, 2004, 01:32:45 AM »
What BoingBoss has suggested is fascinating.

I've never seen a Mini-CDR but I have seen the recordable flipcards
(which are basically a credit card that spins around in your CD
drive).

I don't get why you don't want to put them onto hard disk instead of
on seperate CDs, but I can see the advantage of being able to take a
disc around to a friend's house (like you'd do with a console disc).

Another thing you might find interesting - MakeCD has an option menu
solely regarding CD32 & CDTV auto-booting. It allows you to make the
CDs bootable and add copyright notices etc. You might want to try this
if your disc is to be compatible with a CD32/CDTV.

For the Amiga 1200 bare in mind that a lot of CD-ROM adaptors won't
autoboot a disc because the drivers are loaded from the hard disk. I
think Squirrel allowed autobooting but I can't seem to do it on my
SCSI-IV kit.

Maybe an IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drive would work best? Not sure...

Another thing you might consider is putting your games onto a Compact
Flash card or two, and having a portable PCMCIA card reader. this way
you can take the reader to a friend's house and a collection of
postage stamp sized disks (2mb up to 512mb!) and they can not only be
re-written to but are 10's of times faster.

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Re: Amiga games on cd, can this be done?
« Reply #15 on: July 21, 2004, 02:36:58 AM »
Hi Hyperspeed,

Auto-boot !   :-?

Why worry about that when you can just double-click on the game ICONS?!   :-D
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Re: Amiga games on cd, can this be done?
« Reply #16 on: July 21, 2004, 02:43:11 PM »
@BoingBoss/DoomMaster
you know how to put NDOS games on the hd (not making an adf or doing such with whdload)
And the canary said: \'chirp\'