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?

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

The results aren’t 100%, but there are tools to simulate a CDTV environment. AsimCDFS is one such example. Also look into CDBoot.

Thanks folks

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

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.

Is it possible to know the model you are using ? I'm looking for a ce drive for my A1200.

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.

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.