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Offline moschops99Topic starter

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how to get cdtv games working on my a1200
« on: February 29, 2008, 02:45:08 PM »
hi can anyone tell me how to get cdtv games working on my a1200
thanks andy
 

Offline darksun9210

Re: how to get cdtv games working on my a1200
« Reply #1 on: February 29, 2008, 02:58:06 PM »
well, unless you got the real commodore CD1200 add on to boot straight from CD into the game, its not gonna happen. so you're gonna have to run the CD from workbench.
make a little script to run which adds the CD's system directories to the search path
(assign c: cd0:c add) etc etc. as thats where the game will expect to find its files, and you can either execute cd0:s/startup-sequence, or find and run the game file directly.

or there is a CDTV/CD32 degrader/emulator you can download off of aminet, or get from the IDEfix97 package, you can use for a more streamlined approach.

most CDTV/CD32 games should work as they are mostly amiga rips. you might find you are missing the CD audio though.

its been a while since i tried to run real amigaCD games so your mileage may varey, and i'm sure there are other people here who can help out with much more uptodate info on getting this working :-)

A500, A600, A1200x3, A2000, A3000, A4000 & a CD32.
and probably just like the rest of you, crates full of related "treasure" for the above XD
 

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Re: how to get cdtv games working on my a1200
« Reply #2 on: February 29, 2008, 03:00:07 PM »
I had some mixed results with the CDTV emulator thingy included with AsimCDFS.

Offline darksun9210

Re: how to get cdtv games working on my a1200
« Reply #3 on: February 29, 2008, 03:11:12 PM »
yeah i seem to remember (but could be wrong) that sometimes the games try to take control of cd.device, which is present in the CDTV and CD32, but not a standard miggy. plus there are those CDTV.tm and CD32.tm files that have to be available in the root path...

most the time the CD versions don't really differ from the normal versions, so i really wasn't that bothered. but there are some WHDLoad files out there for some CD versions of games which take care of everything, and run it straight from your hard disk...

A500, A600, A1200x3, A2000, A3000, A4000 & a CD32.
and probably just like the rest of you, crates full of related "treasure" for the above XD
 

Offline scuzzb494

Re: how to get cdtv games working on my a1200
« Reply #4 on: February 29, 2008, 11:35:26 PM »
Hi

With the Power Computing CDROM drive I have the software gives you the CD32 emulation... dunno if its any use but I guess I could put the disk on the website if its any use.

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