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Q i put Amiga future disk into cd32 but did not load it so took it out and put in pandora`s cd disk in and it work so am i right in thinking the amiga future disk his a dvd and 32 can not read from dvd disk or should it work and try other one

thank you for any help

here are Amiga i own two 1200, one 6oo, one cdtv, one minmig and 32 and a aros on raspberry pi amiga forever and amikit on win 7 and win 8

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@mcbone

When say load, do you mean popped the tray open and down with the AF disk so it would boot from it? Or just loaded it on Workbench?

If trying to boot it AF may not be mastered with any advanced features like being a bootable CD. It may just be a data CD.

AFAIK, the AF CD is only a CD. DVD would be more expensive and they need 4GB of data to fill it!

@Hypex

yes i open try and put af disk in to it the pandors cd disk work on cdtv and 32 but it a compack disk

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@mcbone

As I recall, AF CD's are not bootable, and so would not boot when inserted into a CD32. You would have to boot to a Workbench to be able to view the contents of the CD.

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@_Steve_

thank you i have to see if i can find disk drive for the 32

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@mcbone

There were some magazine cover cds back in the day that did boot into Workbench on a CD32 and which had a little tool (NoReboot if I recall correctly) that didn't reboot the CD32 when the lid of the CD-player was opened. I believe the Amiga Format CDs were done like that but I can be wrong.

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@Amiga_3k

thank you i am think off getting disk drive for cd32 son two on ebay and hear you can link 1200 to cd32

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@mcbone

Years ago I ran a setup using an Amiga 3000 desktop connected to a Amiga CD32 using the Communicator AHWB. This plugged into the AUX connector of the CD32 and on the other and connected to the A3000s serial connector. Speed was... euh well... how to put this nice... extremely slow at the slowest end of slow. Like using an old 14k modem but then... slower.

Although being slow, it worked rather well and stable and was far cheaper then getting an external SCSI CD-ROM drive back then. The CD32 I bought brand new AFTER Commodore went bust so it must have come cheap.

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Could use an SX-1, SX-32 or a Promodle to turn the CD32 into an A1200 machine with CD drive.

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A1200 wrote: Could use an SX-1, SX-32 or a Promodle to turn the CD32 into an A1200 machine with CD drive.

You could, but then you might as well just buy an A1200

Last edited by NovaCoder on 28-Jul-2014 at 01:10 AM.

@A1200

They tend to cost a small fortune when they come on sale. Wish someone would do a new expansion card for it. All you need is some ram and SD slot.