[torontocbm] Re: External CD-ROM for Amigas?
- From: Ian Colquhoun <icolquhoun@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Toronto CBM List <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:30:29 -0400
That's right. Floppies only on the external connector. Getting a CDROM
working on a 600 would, shall we say, be challenging.
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Leif Bloomquist <leif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> I'm not sure - I'm a bit of an Amiga noob. I assume the external drive
> connector on the back of the 600 only works with floppies then?
>
>
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> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Steve Gray <sjgray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Depends.. Does your A600 have an added SCSI interface? Standard 600's use
>> IDE hard drives and only have a PCMCIA port. Amiga CD's are ISO 9660 so you
>> should be able to read it on a PC, but then you'd have to write the files
>> to Amiga Floppy, so you'd need CrossDOS.
>>
>> I have an Amiga 2000 with CD-ROM drive that I could bring.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> *From:* Leif Bloomquist <leif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> *To:* "torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> *Sent:* Monday, April 14, 2014 10:11:17 AM
>> *Subject:* [torontocbm] External CD-ROM for Amigas?
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A request for Thursday. I picked up a network card for my Amiga 600 to
>> experiment with Amiga networking (a new topic for me), and the software was
>> supplied on...a CD-ROM <facepalm>.
>>
>> Does anyone have an external CD-ROM that would work on an Amiga 600 that
>> I could borrow for the evening to get the software installed?
>>
>> (Or is there a better way?)
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Leif
>>
>>
>> --
>> Leif Bloomquist | leif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | +1 416-737-2328 | Check out my
>> blog! http://www.jammingsignal.com/
>>
>>
>> "Every choice, no matter how small, begins a new story." - xkcd
>>
>>
>>
>
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Ian Colquhoun <icolquhoun@xxxxxxxxx>
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