CD32 games on A1200?

[Michael Doma]

Originally Posted by stx2199

if you read the doc I posted you will found that this CD32 emulator don't support CDTV games like the real CD32 console does

I hate reading docs... Sorry!
Is CDDA really THAT different on the CDTV?!
Oh and why don't you put this on Aminet?

I would also love to have a look at the source, if you'd allow. Won't spread of course. Thanks in advance!

[Aardvark]

Originally Posted by Michael Doma

I hate reading docs... Sorry!
Is CDDA really THAT different on the CDTV?!
Oh and why don't you put this on Aminet? !

It is on Aminet https://aminet.net/package/driver/media/IDEfix97

The CDTV uses cdtv.device to play CDDA, and the Idefix cd32emu doesn't try to emulate that.

CDTV audio does work if you install AmiCDFS.

[Michael Doma]

Originally Posted by Aardvark

CDTV audio does work if you install AmiCDFS.

Want to use the floppy version of cd32emu. Should I replace CacheCDFS with AmiCDFS right on the floppy image?

[stx2199]

Originally Posted by Michael Doma

Want to use the floppy version of cd32emu. Should I replace CacheCDFS with AmiCDFS right on the floppy image?

nope you are only replacing the filesystem which will not work
you must install the AsimCDFS package in a workbench hardisk installation

[Michael Doma]

Originally Posted by stx2199

you must install the AsimCDFS package in a workbench hardisk installation

Now I'm lost. What's the difference between AmiCDFS and AsimCDFS?

[Korban]

Why not just emulate the CD32?
There's nigh on zero difference in emulation speed between that and an A1200 if you use same setting for both regardless of what hardware youre running the emulation on.
Emulating an a1200 to play cd32 software and then involving workarounds/tweaks/software solutions to emulate most of CD32 seems an exercise in redundancy if you just want to use CD32 software.
Also WinUAE *IS* multithreaded.
Not for cpu, that pretty much wont work for any cpu emulation in any system, but it is multithreaded.
Its using 6 cores on one of my configs.

[Aardvark]

Originally Posted by Michael Doma

Now I'm lost. What's the difference between AmiCDFS and AsimCDFS?

Sorry my mistake. AsimCDFS by Asimware is the one with CDTV emulation.

[Michael Doma]

Originally Posted by Korban

Why not just emulate the CD32?

Because it seems to me A1200 it's running faster than CD32 on my host, so I'm giving it a try.
And the CDFS thingy is only for CDTV emluation (SimCity), not for CD32.

To my knowledge, WinUAE is not multithreaded, except for RTG. I see WinUAE maxing out 1 core and not using another one, until I switch to RTG. Could you give me the config that uses more cores for you?

Oh and the CPU is not the only chip of an Amiga. So other chips could be emulated on other cores. But as i understand Toni, synchronisation between them is impossible with multithreading.