15 March 2024, 13:59 | #1 |
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Running CDTV titles using an connected CD drive
I've recently been tinkering with one of those Sony Vaio drives on my A600. It works very well, but I was wondering: if I got hold of a copy of, say, Trivial Pursuit or Defender of the Crown II, could I boot into these from Workbench? Or any other CDTV title for that matter?
I know running CD32 on an A1200 requires some element of emulation like cd32emu, but the CDTV is much closer to an A500 - no Akiko chip nonsense here. So could it work? Or would the lack of extended ROMs hamper this effort? Last edited by PixelsAtDawn; 15 March 2024 at 14:01. Reason: Typing on a phone is frequently problematic |
15 March 2024, 22:33 | #2 |
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there is no CDTV emulator written yet
anyways some CDTV titles works on any Amiga running the executable from workbench so you can try it , I remember I tried an ugly CDTV game called pinocchio and worked in my A1200 |
15 March 2024, 23:43 | #3 |
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The results aren’t 100%, but there are tools to simulate a CDTV environment. AsimCDFS is one such example. Also look into CDBoot.
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16 March 2024, 02:18 | #4 |
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Thanks folks
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16 March 2024, 17:49 | #5 |
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CDboot was done mainly for winuae
AsimDCDF is not a solution either The CD32 emulator which I uploaded in the other thread don't support CDTV titles as the real CD32 console (stated in docs) to simulate a CDTV environment you need a booteable CD Amiga system + kick 1.3 otherwise lot of games will fail to boot/work |
17 March 2024, 11:12 | #6 |
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I've used in the past the Archos Overdrive CD32/CDTV Emulator for CDTV games, but I didn't manage to run this emulator with the Sony CDDrive.
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25 March 2024, 00:08 | #8 |
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I've been using a SquirrelSCSI on my A1200 with real CDs, and I tried one CDTV game and it booted and ran but I had the strange issue of it not playing the redbook audio. I know the SquirrelSCSI CD32 emulation doesn't claim to support CDTV games, so I'm not surprised that it didn't work right. However, I too am curious about what could be made to work for it.
I think I saw that the later SurfSquirrel CD32 emulation did claim to support CDTV games? However, I don't know myself if that later software would work with the original SquirrelSCSI or not. I also wonder whether my issue there might have just been a Kickstart discrepancy or something though too. I did try out setting my A1200 to OSC compatibility, and tried a Relokick floppy at the same time, though I'm not sure if they ended up working together and if that would have also held through the CD boot process. But I hopefully have a more robust solution for booting alternative Kickstarts now with an expansion card which supports that. Of course yeah, I do wonder about solutions which aren't specific to SquirrelSCSI too. Perhaps I should try booting it from Workbench like stx2199 mentioned. |
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AsimCDFS v3.9 (can be found on Turran FTP) does some cdtv.device emulation which enables CD audio.
No idea whether it works with PCMCIA CD drives, I only tested it on A1200 IDE which played CDTV Sim City fine with CD music. |
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