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NEC 3x CD drives. It's commercial. Nobody's said how good the emulation is. You can contact the
author, Oliver Kastl, by Email. Oliver's Email address is 100447.3361@compuserve.com.
Almathera are selling a bug-fixed and English language version. Video Creator will also work once it's
been installed.
Also, there's another available, called CD-Boot. This works on the A1200 or A4000. It sits between the
CD32 game and Amiga's SCSI, IDE, or PCMCIA CD-ROM drive. You can create config files for each
CD. It's commercial. One person said that the success rate was 2 out of 7 games. You can contact the
author, Thomas Kessler, by Email. Thomas' Email address is kessler@fim.uni-erlangen.de.
AsimCDFS: This is a quick description made after reading Asimware's info sheet (it's probably better to
read the full thing for yourself if you're interested before making up your mind):
Asimware's AsimCDFS can emulate CDTVs and CD32s, but the how good it is depends on the
individual machine. But it also has a music CD player, music CD support (so the music looks like AIFF,
MAUD, and RAW files), and Photo CD support (so the pictures look like normal IFF ILBM files).
Your friend's PC might be able to play them as well - with limited success.
Q: What can go wrong?
A: Make sure the game can access lowlevel.library in LIBS:. If not, the game can't use the CD32
joypad, or may not even work. If it can, you can plug the CD32 joypad straight into the joystick port.
You may not be able to play the games that use the extra joypad buttons properly if you don't have a
joypad to press them with...
The game tries to use nonvolatile.library to save to the CD32's NVRAM. Make sure that this can be
accessed in LIBS: and you create a file called "ENVARC:sys/nv_location" - a single line of text that is
the directory name of where you would like saved data to be stored.
The game could try to call some 3.1 functions that don't exist in 3.0. Upgrading your Kickstart should fix
this problem.
You won't hear any CD music. There's no way around this. Sometimes the game may decide to keel over
because it can't play the CD music.
The game tries to use Akiko. If you've upgraded to 3.1 and it still goes wrong then there's no way around
this.
If you are using emulation under another OS, be sure you mimic the exact configuration of a CD32 - no
FAST RAM, no FPU, etc. These can REALLY make a difference.
Q: Are there any incompatiblities when using an Archos CD drive?
A: Here's a list. If you've got an update, let me know and I'll put the change in here...
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