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jotd · 08 September 2018, 22:08

I was interested about adapting CD32load for JOTD but got a cold shower from Toni (Wilen) who explained that the low-level CD-read routine that I'm using for CD32load (written by Psygore, who probably reverse-engineered Rob Northen routine to enhance it) won't run on CDTV because the CD hardware is different.

I'm not going to write a CDTV hardware loading routine, but if someone does, I'll be happy to integrate it to CD32load. Some games run with CD32load with just 1 meg (using IDE HD on A600). There are rare (silkworm comes to mind because it only needs 512k) but they exist.

AmigaDOS compatible games should run without issues though if they only need 1 megabyte. But non-AmigaDOS games won't run, even if the filesystem is DOS (ex: sensible soccer, SWOS, cannon fodder 2) because they take over the OS, and there's a hardware banging routine (written by Rob Northen, again

) to read OFS/FFS files without the need of the OS.

08 September 2018, 22:08	#4
jotd This cat is no more Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: FRANCE Age: 52 Posts: 8,319	I was interested about adapting CD32load for JOTD but got a cold shower from Toni (Wilen) who explained that the low-level CD-read routine that I'm using for CD32load (written by Psygore, who probably reverse-engineered Rob Northen routine to enhance it) won't run on CDTV because the CD hardware is different. I'm not going to write a CDTV hardware loading routine, but if someone does, I'll be happy to integrate it to CD32load. Some games run with CD32load with just 1 meg (using IDE HD on A600). There are rare (silkworm comes to mind because it only needs 512k) but they exist. AmigaDOS compatible games should run without issues though if they only need 1 megabyte. But non-AmigaDOS games won't run, even if the filesystem is DOS (ex: sensible soccer, SWOS, cannon fodder 2) because they take over the OS, and there's a hardware banging routine (written by Rob Northen, again ) to read OFS/FFS files without the need of the OS.