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AmigaHope · 25 April 2019, 16:34

There are optical drive emulators available for various consoles that emulate at the hardware layer, but none that I know of for generic SATA/ATAPI/IDE interfaces.

There *ARE* optical drive emulators that present as USB CD/DVD drives though. Here is an example from Startech, there's also a Zalman-branded one.

https://www.startech.com/support/S2510BU3ISO

Obviously this does no good if you're trying to stick it in your CD32 or whatever.

25 April 2019, 16:34	#20
AmigaHope Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: New Sandusky Posts: 942	There are optical drive emulators available for various consoles that emulate at the hardware layer, but none that I know of for generic SATA/ATAPI/IDE interfaces. There ARE optical drive emulators that present as USB CD/DVD drives though. Here is an example from Startech, there's also a Zalman-branded one. https://www.startech.com/support/S2510BU3ISO Obviously this does no good if you're trying to stick it in your CD32 or whatever.