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A1200 into a CD32
« on: August 26, 2009, 03:48:12 PM »
Hi,

If i brought an a1200 would it be possible to a buy a external CD drive and effectively turn it into a CD32 and it will play all the CD32 games etc..?

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Re: A1200 into a CD32
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2009, 04:17:52 PM »
It's possible to play CD32 games on a A1200 with external CD drive. You could use the Squirrel SCSI driver disk to make a bootable CD32 disk or install it on your HD.

To make it more compatible you need kickstart 3.1.
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Re: A1200 into a CD32
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2009, 04:25:53 PM »
Thats great - thanks for the reply.

I currently have a Minimig and might have to sell it to buy a1200.

For some reason i want some original hardware!!
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Re: A1200 into a CD32
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2009, 04:26:28 PM »
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Hi,

If i brought an a1200 would it be possible to a buy a external CD drive and effectively turn it into a CD32 and it will play all the CD32 games etc..?

It's not possible to play all games, A1200 doesn't have the Akiko c2p hardware.
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Re: A1200 into a CD32
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2009, 04:27:24 PM »
Which is also used by some games I believe for some weird loading routines.
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Re: A1200 into a CD32
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2009, 04:29:42 PM »
Hmmm... thats interesting to know.

I have read people talking about WHDload? will that enable me to load CD32 games from my harddrive?

Maybe im barking up the wrong tree?
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Re: A1200 into a CD32
« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2009, 04:48:55 PM »
Yes there are some WHDLoad for CD32 games
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Re: A1200 into a CD32
« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2009, 05:20:19 PM »
I did a quick search on WHDLoad site for CD32 and got 70 hits.
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Offline Cammy

Re: A1200 into a CD32
« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2009, 07:03:12 PM »
I could never get Microcosm to work on the A1200 with Squirrel SCSI emulation, but all the other games I tried worked. If you play WHDLoad-installed CD32 games, you will often miss out on hearing the music due to a lot of CD32 games using CDDA tracks instead of MODs for their music.
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Re: A1200 into a CD32
« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2009, 10:01:35 PM »
I played Microcrosm with my A1200 and the Squirrel CD32 emulation without problems.
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Re: A1200 into a CD32
« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2009, 10:53:51 PM »
I also played that with no trouble with an archos overdrive and cd32 emulaion.

I have got a boxed in perfect condition copy, god its a crap game
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Re: A1200 into a CD32
« Reply #11 on: August 27, 2009, 12:38:11 AM »
Yep thanks to the efforts of the WHDLOAD team you can (almost) get the full CD32 experience on a 1200 sans a CDROM drive. As Cammy mentions you'll often miss out on music/speech....check out Beneath a Steel Sky for a job done well (as long as you have 129mb FAST RAM).

Another option is to do wireless connection to your Windoze machine and connect to it's DVD/CDROM drive using EasyNet (it appears as an icon on your WB just like a normal Amiga drive), I've never got this working myself but I've heard that other people have so you may be able to use this method to play CD32 games.
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