If you have a FMV cartridge you can play these. There were 100 films available in August
'94, and in the THOUSANDS in March 2000 - and they are still making new ones. At the
time of writing, Disney's TARZAN was available!
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EXPANSION
Q: Is it possible to use the Aminet, Fred Fish, etc... CDs without an expanded CD32?
A: Yes...
Maarten Ter Mors has written a step by step guide of how to do this. It's available from
aminet:/docs/misc/Aminet4_CD32.txt. There can be problems booting from some CDs if
you use an unexpanded CD32 though. Maarten wrote:
There was a little something I missed in the CD32 FAQ. Because of (yet another) strange
oddity in the Commodore 3.1 CDFileSystem, you can only use CD-ROMs with a *lower*
or equal ISO revision than the disc you booted from (this is irrelevant to SX-1 users, for
they are likely to boot from harddrive or floppy).
The Aminet 4 CD and the GoldFish CD-ROM set by Fred Fish are two examples of discs
that use a higher revision than, say, the Weird Science Network CD. This means that you
can't access the discs properly or at all. The solution is booting from a RAD: recoverable
RAM disk. I was asked by Urban Mueller (who does a lot of the good work on the Aminet
CDs) to write a step-by-step guide to set one up.
Joop van de Wege has another answer (Aminet 5 & Communicator)...
I haven't read the notice yet but I found out for myself how to do it and its not a hassle. I'm
just too lazy to write a small script file to copy the 2 files and execute the mount command.
Step 1: copy your mountlist entry CR0: to snet:ram
Step 2: copy L:amicdromfilesystem to snet:ram
Step 3: mount cr0: on the cd32 side
Step 4 and last one: start copying files from cr0: to whereever you want them, run programs,
read guide files, search for ......
And another from David Law of Weird Science (Aminet & Network CD)...
We have found that CBM's filesystem in general does not cope too well with the Aminet
CDs. This may be due as you say to ISO revision numbers. The easiest fix is to remount the
CD drive as CD1: with AmiCDRom filesystem and access the Aminet CD's as `CD1:` or
`Network:CD1/` with Sernet. When trying this be sure to set the 'T' flag in the line 'Startup'
of the mountlist. This will ensure that the trackdisk device is used to access the CD drive.
AmiCDRom filesystem for some reason thinks that the CD drive is a SCSI device otherwise
and will probably crash the machine.
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