CD32 game on A1200/A4000?

[McVenco]

Quick 'n easy question (I think):

Is it possible to play a CD32 game on an A1200? I recently got a load of CD-ROMs for free (again), and amongst them there was a CD32 game Oscar/Diggers.

Can I play this on my A1200, with a non-autobooting CD-ROM player, or does it need to boot from CD? If it does, can I play it on my A4000 then (which *does* have an autobooting CD-ROM player)?

[A4000_Mad]

I use a great prog called CD-Boot. It puts an additional startup-sequence in your S drawer. At boot up your Amiga first looks to see if there is a bootable CD in your drive. If so, it gives you the choice of booting into the CD or into Workbench. It makes an A4000 or A1200 act just like a CD32 8-)

It checks your CD drive at a very early stage of booting up as CD32 games usually require the full 2MB of chip ram of course
 :-)

I've had it for years myself, but to see if it is still available you could contact the author Thomas Kessler. His E-mail address is/was kessler@fim.uni-erlangen.de

A4000 Mad

[motorollin]

There is also a CD32 emulator in the IDEfix package on AMinet. A *much* better solution though is to use WHDLoad to install the CD32 game to hard disk. The WHDLoad CD32 installers fix the games so they run "natively" on the A1200/A4000, so they don't need a CD32 emulation (or the CD) to work.

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moto

[A4000_Mad]

I totally agree with Moto. WHDLoad cannot be praised or recommended enough. In my opinion you can't beat playing your games directly from hard drive and being able to press a single key to exit back to your Workbench screen.

You can get WHDLoad from here http://www.whdload.de


I've checked and the CD32 installer for Oscar/Diggers is available. Go here http://www.whdload.de/search.html and type Diggers in the search box. It says " Supported are two different floppy versions, the CD³² version and the CD³² Oscar/Diggers-Bundle".


For your game click on the writing 'WHDLoad Install for Oscar (Flaire Software)' and then download the file 'Oscar.lha'  :-)


A4000 Mad

[McVenco]

Thanks, I'll give it a go!

[keropi]

but what about audio tracks? some games have audio tracks on the cd, does whdload use the cd for music if present?

[motorollin]

Audio tracks won't work if you WHDLoad the game.

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moto

[DrDekker]

As far as I can remember, the CD32 had an AKIKO chip for doing chunky-to-planar conversions (what ever that is), so any game requiring the use of this chip won't work on any other amiga.

[Louis Dias]

I thought the AKIKO functionality was encapsulated into a library and that the A4000 was fast enough and had a software version of that library, hence, could run CD32 games, since that's what they were developed on to begin with.