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Amiga Distribution System - Long Description File
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Program Name : ATAPI Driver - by - Oliver Kastl
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File 1 - A4KATAPI.lha - 8993 ADOS Req'd
File 2 - - [ ] All [ ] WB1.x [ ] WB2.x [X] WB3.x
File 3 - - ChipSet Req'd
File 4 - - [ ] Any [ ] Orig [ ] ECS [X] AGA
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Ram Req'd
[ ] 512k [ ] 1meg [X] 2meg [ ] 3meg [ ] ALOT!!!
Special Hardware
A4000 & ATAPI CD-Rom drive
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Long Description
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Short: ATAPI CD-Rom driver for A4000
Author: 100447.3361@compuserve.com (Oliver Kastl)
Uploader: r_marks@people-s.people.sub.org (Rainer Marks)
Type: disk/cdrom
This device allows you to use an ATAPI CD-ROM drive
with the A4000 or A4000T embedded IDE controller.
A4000 users can use the very popular and cheap CD-Roms for PCs
without any major disadvantages against SCSI CD-Rom drives.
The major advantage for A4000 users without a SCSI controller
is, that they don't have to buy one.
The major advantage for A4000 users with a SCSI controller
is, that they have an unused IDE port in their machine anyway
and SCSI CD-Roms are usually more expensive.
The device maps SCSI-II commands to ATAPI packets using the
standard Commodore HD_SCSICMD interface, so any "CD-Rom
specific" programs (Multisession Filsystems, Audio Players and
Photo-CD readers) designed for SCSI-II CD-Roms should work.
This has been tested with CacheCDFS, PlayCD, CD32-Emulator
(all written by me) and PhotoWorX (an excellent PhotoCD Reader
by Corporate Media).
However, I cannot guarantee that every SCSI-II specific program will
work, but I do not expect any major problems.
The device is fully interrupt driven and will use only a small
amount of CPU time for the transfer (exceptions are listed below).
The device is still in beta state, use at your own risk!
Further, the device will remind you after 15 Minutes, that
you should BUY the real thing (when it is finished).
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ADS Zone: 1
ADS Hatch Site: Paul Miller
ADS Position: ADS Zone 1 STAR
BBS Name: Lonely Mountain BBS
Phone Number(s): 804-827-0726
Network Address: 1:271/292
Network Region: 13
BBS Hours: 24 Hrs/Day
BBS Mailer/Software: Mebbs-Net Pro BBS
BBS Storage Space: 2250 Megs + 8 CD Roms
File Requestable : <X> Y < > N
File Request Hours : All The Time
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ADS - Long Description Generator
(c)Copyright 1995 by Paul Miller