| From: | Kevin Fairhurst |
| Date: | 22 Aug 2000 at 11:45:23 |
| Subject: | Re: The Alien Saga |
On 22-Aug-00, Gareth Griffiths wrote:
> ��� Sender: Kevin Fairhurst <redvers@bigfoot.com>
> ��� On 22-Aug-00, you wrote about '[amigactive] Re: The Alien Saga'...
>
>> Get a DVD drive for your Amiga, and using Frogger and the filesystem that
>> comes with the Power Flyer, you can buy the DVD box set for about £45
>> (also includes Alien 4 and a bonus disc) and watch them on your amiga.
>
> Can I use 'normal' PC DVD drives in the Amiga?
Yes! Of course you can!
> I'm assuming so, they are
> ATAPI drives aren't they?
Mine is, but I think you can get SCSI ones ....
> I do want the VHS's though, as well as the
> DVD's. I'm a bit of an Aliens collector, see. :-)
Well if you get a real DVD player (£150 or so) and disable macrovision, you
can copy the DVD to VHS tape ;)
> I could just get the Alien Saga box set on VHS from Amazon, but I'd prefer
> to get them separately, and hten get the box set too :-) Mad or what?
Incredibly. But we've always thought that of you ... ;)
>> BTW does anyone know if Allegro CDFS is available seperately for use on
>> normal IDE ports?
>
> IIRC, from reading a review/faq in AF/AA, Allegro CDFS uses the hardware
> code of Power Flyers to stop people pirating the CDFS software. That's why
> I just stick to CacheCDFS :-)
It does - otherwise I'd be using it now on my A4000 (I have it on my A1200
with the £20 IDE interface I have in there. I don't fancy paying £80 though
for a soddin' dongle! And I'm short on zorro slots anyway :/ )
> Also, are there any other ways of adding a replacement serial port to my
> Amiga that DON'T require a clockport, given that I don't have one? ;-(
Yes. Tower up your A1200, get a zorro bus-board, get a zorro serial card.
Kev
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