Wa-ay back in November 2005 i managed to get a C64 loading from an audio CD; all told it was a slightly silly idea but that's never stopped me. Today some new car CD adapters arrived courtesy of eBay (there are literally [i]hundreds[/i] of the things on sale) and i'd found an enclosure that was originally used to house a Cumana CDROM drive for an Acorn Archimedes (and still contains and powers the interface board) and wedged a battered but relatively reliable Asus 52x CDROM drive in there; the reason for the drive change was that the Asus has two buttons, play/next track and stop/eject so that audio tracks can be selected from the drive without it needing a computer connected. i never did find a caddy or indeed the 6x CDROM drive i wanted to use for this project, which is a shame because it had all the controls and a really nice LCD panel that gave the drive status and what track it was currently looking at... it would've been bloody perfect for this "project"... oh well, here's a video of the CPC loading Cybernoid 2 from the CD drive perched on top of it's monitor:
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