Mac titles for CD32 via Shapeshifter?

[Seiya]

i have rebel assualt working harfile that i tested with Shapeshifter. i used a 750 MB hardfile. compressed are 416 MB.

@Thairacerjp
you must have a big hardfile to copy Rebel Assualt CD because, i think, when you mount you have 2 files: original iso image and Mounted CD.

[Retro1234]

I'd love it if someone could make a video from real hardware.

Originally Posted by thairacerjp

after so many issues for transfert data from WB to shapeshifter i found a solution by installing ballistic on my mac and it was so easy to transfert via unix folder, i really don't know what happends on workbench but i have the skill now , i put a vidéo de Alone in the Dark running on shapeshifter for show the difference between WINUAE & CLASSIC WORKBENCH ON CD32 TF330, not bad on low resolution, just have to wait the next CARD
i have a problem with rebel assault, when i mount image, virtual disc said that i no have enough ressource on winuae, i will tet on real hardware for see.
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@thairacerjp is that with MuEVD?

@wairnair did you ever try a lower version of system 7?

[thairacerjp]

Originally Posted by Retro1234

I'd love it if someone could make a video from real hardware.





@thairacerjp is that with MuEVD?

@wairnair did you ever try a lower version of system 7?

it's AmigaAGA EVD , +1 for video on real hardware

@ Seiya : thanks, i will try again

[NeoHippie2016]

A little question from me: ahem, all the games only work on an emulated Amiga, right?

[Retro1234]

They work on Emulated and real

[Retro1234]

Shouldn't there be a bit of a speed increase in NTSC 60hz etc

and finally what format is the Rebel Assualt CD ? ISO or HFS???
I'm just thinking how slow is it going to be accessing the HFV from Real CD with the Rebel assault CD Disc image on it might be better to mount the disc image under Amiga or something?

or if it's a standard joilet format just copy the files over to the compilation Disc??

[Seiya]

Rebel Assault is Toast image. Of course from CD loading hardfile require more time than from Harddisk.

[Retro1234]

Accessing HFV on FastFilesystem FFS was always slow but not on other file systems like PFS3 or SFS or even FAT32! on real Amiga but what about ISO 9660.

but if the game can be run off a standard ISO 9660 CD instead maybe theres another way to do it.

[Seiya]

some times also for mac are available Rips games, but i not found nothing about Rebel ASsault. Maybe with a deep research you can find something.

[wairnair]

Originally Posted by thairacerjp

i have a problem with rebel assault, when i mount image, virtual disc said that i no have enough ressource

Don't know about "virtual disc", but System 7.6.1 has Disk Copy built in and can mount .img files fine. It mounted Rebel Assault fine too. The game can be launched either from the mounted img, or you can copy the executable to HDD.
There is a v1.06 patch in a separate .img on the CD. I copied that to HDD and just ran the game from that.

grats for getting AITD work. If that WinUAE config is really similar to a TF330 then it looks very playable too. (I set emulation speed to cycle exact and boosted CPU by 50% so that it performs almost the same as the real hardware. You can check with Sysinfo.)

edit: I wrote .iso but it's .img. Fixed that.

[wairnair]

Originally Posted by Retro1234

@wairnair did you ever try a lower version of system 7?

I tried yours when we started out, it was v7.1 or something like that. Looked the same to me performance-wise as the later releases..

7.5.3 boots similarly quick, 7.6.1 is noticeably slower. I guess it boils down to how many services they start on startup and 7.6 has definitely more of them. (If you keep SHIFT pressed they boot without extensions and both are very quick)

[thairacerjp]

Originally Posted by wairnair

Don't know about "virtual disc", but Syste thnm 7.6.1 has Disk Copy built in and can mount .img files fine. It mounted Rebel Assault fine too. The game can be launched either from the mounted img, or you can copy the executable to HDD.
There is a v1.06 patch in a separate .img on the CD. I copied that to HDD and just ran the game from that.

grats for getting AITD work. If that WinUAE config is really similar to a TF330 then it looks very playable too. (I set emulation speed to cycle exact and boosted CPU by 50% so that it performs almost the same as the real hardware. You can check with Sysinfo.)

edit: I wrote .iso but it's .img. Fixed that.

thanks for advises, yesterday i found the right img file and it's rocks ! , speed is very good, not far 100 %, even POP2, after the intro it run near 80% speed, for "retro1234", i put another hardware video on real CD32 TF330, i was so glad that i forgot to activate the colour before launch game , but after colour is ok.
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[wairnair]

Originally Posted by thairacerjp

thanks for advises, yesterday i found the right img file and it's rocks ! , speed is very good, not far 100 %, even POP2, after the intro it run near 80% speed, for "retro1234", i put another hardware video on real CD32 TF330, i was so glad that i forgot to activate the colour before launch game , but after colour is ok.
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Wow! Nice to know it's running well on real hw. Is it playing from HD?

[wairnair]

In the meantime I was struggling with AppleScript to auto-start Rebel Assault. Now, I came up with this very advanced script that mounts the image, waits 10 secs and then launches the game no prob...

global counter

property counter : 0

on idle
	if (counter = 1) then
		-- display dialog "Quitting"
		tell application "MacOS:Rebel Assault"
			activate
		end tell
		return
	end if
	if (counter = 0) then
		tell application "MacOS:Apple Extras:Disk Copy:Disk Copy"
			activate
			mount "RA:GameImage.img"
		end tell
		set counter to 1
	end if
	return 10 -- Idle time in seconds
end idle

...except it doesn't work with ShapeShifter, only Basilisk!

[Retro1234]

@thairacerjp Nice Video Thanks is that with AGA-EVD?

Is this game gonna work from a HFV on a CD?

[thairacerjp]

@wairnair, yes it's play from HDD, you know, i still not found the bug who prevent me from transfert via Amiga to shapeshifter, so i use Basilisk on my mac and it's so easy to share data, with basilisk i can choose many image disc (img, iso, toast) and it's work, shapeshifter is not as convenient as him !
did you know a true program who convert nrg,iso, bin or toast to img ? i have tried isobuddy but it's crap, i have burnt nrg image and made iso with imgburn and it's not good for shapeshifter....... keep the good work
ps : and some game asked for 68040, so i have to wait the future card but it's great ! 26 years to see rebel assault on CD32 ah ah.

@Retro1234 , yes, still AGA-EVD, work from img

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by thairacerjp

did you know a true program who convert nrg,iso, bin or toast to img ?

Try PowerISO.

• Convert BIN to ISO
• Convert DMG to ISO
• Convert NRG to ISO
• Convert IMG to ISO
• Convert Any CD / DVD Image File to ISO
• Convert Any CD / DVD Image File to BIN
• Convert ISO to BIN / CUE

I'd imagine it would work the other way around.

...or maybe try one of these: https://softadvice.informer.com/Iso_...Converter.html

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by thairacerjp

i have burnt nrg image and made iso with imgburn and it's not good for shapeshifter

Hold on, you can make an .IMG file using ImgBurn...

Just mount whatever image file first via Daemon Tools Lite and then create the .IMG from the virtual drive.

[thairacerjp]

Originally Posted by DamienD

Try PowerISO.

• Convert BIN to ISO
• Convert DMG to ISO
• Convert NRG to ISO
• Convert IMG to ISO
• Convert Any CD / DVD Image File to ISO
• Convert Any CD / DVD Image File to BIN
• Convert ISO to BIN / CUE

I'd imagine it would work the other way around.

...or maybe try one of these: https://softadvice.informer.com/Iso_...Converter.html

Nice mates ! i forgot this one, i had tried ultraiso but it was defective.

[Seiya]

wow, it run very fast on TF330 Rebel Assault!