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vroom6sri · 15 April 2019, 12:45

I see. Has this been discussed before or does anyone know if any of the tech gurus on here have mentioned such an adapter previously. I find the idea of an emulated CD ROM drive pretty neat. I suppose if you could create an ISO on your PC (in a compatible format if that is an issue) and copy large files onto it it'd be a good way to get data from PC to Amiga as well as giving you a near-as-damn-it true CD ROM (and CD32 to some extent?) experience.

In the past I have managed to get my CF card from my Amiga working on my PC via WinUAE but in my case it's a bit of a faff and has, on occasion, screwed up the CF card meaning I have had to copy nearly the whole drive contents back on it from a back-up image (WinUAE is so damned good - bless you, Toni!).

15 April 2019, 12:45	#5
vroom6sri Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Peterborough Age: 47 Posts: 849	I see. Has this been discussed before or does anyone know if any of the tech gurus on here have mentioned such an adapter previously. I find the idea of an emulated CD ROM drive pretty neat. I suppose if you could create an ISO on your PC (in a compatible format if that is an issue) and copy large files onto it it'd be a good way to get data from PC to Amiga as well as giving you a near-as-damn-it true CD ROM (and CD32 to some extent?) experience. In the past I have managed to get my CF card from my Amiga working on my PC via WinUAE but in my case it's a bit of a faff and has, on occasion, screwed up the CF card meaning I have had to copy nearly the whole drive contents back on it from a back-up image (WinUAE is so damned good - bless you, Toni!).