@ hazydave. Please tell me about these.

[LordSpunky]

Finding an external SCSI DVD drive on ebay is the best way, unless your trapdoor expansion doesn't have SCSI capability.

Nope just got some random 8MB expansion card........no SCSI hence PCMCIA

[Argo]

Wow, I haven't seen those in a long time. Though only in a magazine for a brief time.
I ended up getting a refurbed SCSI CD drive from MacMall and a SquirrelSCSI.

[Digiman]

But you don't need akiko to run 99% of the games and an 030 would be fast enough to do the same job anyway. Akiko was pretty much a failure.

Think they realized it and hence it got shelved.

[runequester]

It is a shame! I always thought a CD32 could be linked to the A1200 to use as a CD drive, but I think I dreamed it!
I would love a CD drive for my A1200 and PCMCIA seems the only way.......if I could find one!

Other than SCSI, people have done stuff with the IDE option too, though you have to be a bit more crafty

[desiv]

It is a shame! I always thought a CD32 could be linked to the A1200 to use as a CD drive, but I think I dreamed it!

I thought you could do that with PARNET?

Nope (been googling), it can't.  No parallel port on the CD32.

There is one on the CDTV, so I think that's what I was thinking about.

No idea how compatible a CDTV hooked to an Amiga 1200 with PARNET would be...

desiv

[maffoo]

This, and CD32, should have had a SIMM socket to add 32bit Fastram 2mb-4mb. Both were going to effectively be stuck at 7mhz 68020 speed which was a massive mistake for the sake of adding the SIMM socket for next to nothing.

I seem to remember reading a preview of this drive in Amiga Format, and I think it was going to include either 4mb or a SIMM socket to mitigate the loss of the trapdoor slot. This could just be my memory playing up though.

I had a Zappo drive attached to my A1200's PCMCIA slot back in the day, much better idea IMHO.

[maffoo]

I thought you could do that with PARNET?

Nope (been googling), it can't.  No parallel port on the CD32.

There is one on the CDTV, so I think that's what I was thinking about.

No idea how compatible a CDTV hooked to an Amiga 1200 with PARNET would be...

desiv

There was a kit that let you network an A1200 and CD32 using the serial port, maybe that's what you're thinking of? Never tried it, but I suspect it was slow!

[LordSpunky]

Other than SCSI, people have done stuff with the IDE option too, though you have to be a bit more crafty

Hmmmm, yes have I not seen someone stuck a female IDE port on the outside of the A1200 case? [Assume a 2.5 - 3.5 adapter needed]....hmmmm it maybe an option! Can't afford SCSI

There is one on the CDTV, so I think that's what I was thinking about.

No idea how compatible a CDTV hooked to an Amiga 1200 with PARNET would be...
desiv

hmmmmm I want a CDTV too!!!!!

[desiv]

There was a kit that let you network an A1200 and CD32 using the serial port, maybe that's what you're thinking of? Never tried it, but I suspect it was slow!

Yes..
http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/amiga/cd32/33-How-do-I-use-my-CD32-as-a-CD-drive-or-slave-drive-for-ano.html

I was stuck thinking parnet, but the CD32 has not parallel, but it does have a DIN serial..

Would probably be pretty slow, and I still wonder how compatible...

desiv

[Zac67]

Would probably be pretty slow, and I still wonder how compatible...

My first CDROM was a an A500/A570 parnetted to my A3000, got ~50 KB/s - serial will probably get you ~5 KB/s.
Compatible? Not really worth mentioning aside from having access to a CD.

[Darrin]

There was a kit that let you network an A1200 and CD32 using the serial port, maybe that's what you're thinking of? Never tried it, but I suspect it was slow!

I installed OS3.9 onto my A3000 once using a serial link to access the OS3.9 CD in a PC's CD ROM drive.

"Slow" was an understatement, but it worked.