Unofficial CDTV Conversion Thread

[jotd]

okay, made a python script to scan/decrunch data & compute memory+game data so it's below 1 meg, burned a .ISO on winuae with CDTV and so far here are the games that run:

1000cc Turbo	1992 Energize
3D Galax	1989 Gremlin
3D Pool	1989 Aardvark Software/Firebird
Action Fighter	1989 Sega/Firebird/Kixx
Alianator	1991 P.S.
Alien Bash	1993 Glen Cumming & Stuart Law
Arkanoid	1987 Discovery Software International
arkanoid2	1987 Discovery Software International
Axel's Magic Hammer	1989 Core Design/Gremlin
Black Hornet	1991 Hi-Tec
Black Lamp	1988 FireBird
Bob's Garden	1993 Justin Leck
Brainball	1991 Traveling Bits
Brataccas	1987 Psygnosis
Bubble Bobble	1988 Firebird
Buggy Boy	1988 Elite
Cabaret Asteroids	1991 Vertical
Crazy Sue	1991 Hironymus Jumpshoe
Cybernetix	1992 Vision
Defender 2	1990 Arc
Deflektor	1988 Gremlin
Digger	1993 Justin Leck
E-Motion	1990 Assembly Line/US Gold
Fernandez Must Die	1988 Mirrorsoft/Imageworks
Fire & Ice Xmas	1990-92 Graftgold Ltd.
Galaga'92	1992 Cool-G
Grid Runner	1989 Llamasoft
HATE	19xx Gremlin
Llamatron	1991 Jeff Minter
Nigel Mansell's Grand	1988 Martech
Silkworm	1988 The Sales Curve And Jaleco
Switchblade	1989 Core Design/Gremlin
Turrican [demo]	1990 Rainbow Arts
Twintris	1990 Digital Marketing

not bad

I've created a CDTV bootable .ISO. There's no menu, all is command line, needs to be integrated into another CD (unless I create my own CD with menu)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/u2eu9xh884..._test.zip?dl=0

in "games": all games that work
in "totest": all games that are likely to work, but need testing
in "__NON_WORKING": games that should work but don't (need more investigation)

once booted, just cd to the directory, and run jst. Ex:

cd silkworm
jst silkworm.slave

you can report your findings (on games that work/don't) in https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...awM/edit#gid=0

Most of the games aren't great but there are gems. And a lot never ran on a stock CDTV before.

https://github.com/jotd666/jst

[sovox]

Great job, thanks for this update, I will see in the next few days to insert new games with your JST program for now I'm stopped with the iso it took me too long to create it
Is there one thing I would like to ask and is it possible to quit JST when loading a game?

[jotd]

no most of the time it's not possible to quit as JST takes over the system and doesn't have enough memory to restore the base chipmem on a 1MB CDTV system.

Some very rare games use so few memory & files that it's possible, but most of the time pressing quitkey forces a clean reboot

[sovox]

Hi JOTD I have inserted in my ISO images 100 games with JST loading you can find them in menu 5 and 6 thanks for this program, I also tested the games and entered in the database what works and what doesn't
https://www.edicola8bit.com/pagina_d...hp?codice=cdtv

[jotd]

100 games! It's huge okay a lot are old and not that good, but there are also gems... Can't have everything.

thanks for the CD and for updating the sheet.

One of my future projects could be to adapt CD32load to the CDTV (CD hardware load) so most 512k chip games would work on a CDTV, whatever the data size. For instance, Magic Pockets, Sword of Sodan, Leander ... old good games using only 512k chip and no fast would run.

[ScottC2010]

hi,
I can't see the menu on the updated disk unless i put a spare floppy disk in (Ok for me as i have one but for people without floppy this just boots to a cli)

[Amigajay]

Can a mod separate this thread from post #105 onwards as this thread is about my releases, please move to his already created Sovox thread, thanks

[sovox]

Originally Posted by Amigajay

Can a mod separate this thread from post #105 onwards as this thread is about my releases, please move to his already created Sovox thread, thanks

ok