CDs for the Atari ST line

[djglish]

Are there any CDs that came out for the Atari ST line? I know that I have a CD-ROM drive in my Atari hard drive case but can't remember if I had any CDs that worked with it.  If I did they must be mixed in with all of my old PC CDs.  

[Zogging Hell]

There were a couple of CD games, Ishar 3 and Robinsons Requiem, and there were a lot of compilation CDs of PD. There were also a few dedicated music CDs. Finally there were a couple of CDs for Atari's ill fated CD drive including a encyclopedia and a car parts inventory!

[BJolly]

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia the program to access this was called SARA. Also The Atari Compendium book CD and Atari Computing mag released a CD with the articles / contents of all of the magazines after it closed down.

[BJolly]

Here's a list of various CD's with advice on software available to access CDs on Atari. It's from 1995 so now quite out of date. The software mentioned is often now released as freeware.

Atari CDs Listing.txt

[djglish]

Thanks that should help alot.  I'll have to check to see if I'm running one of the programs to let me access the drive.

[BJolly]

Roger Burrows of Anodyne Software has kindly made their Extendos 4 suite of CD Reader & Writer software freely available.

Go here: Anodyne Software's Home Page  It was the bees knees back then - updated in 2019

[ggn]

You can get a few ST CDROMs here: https://ftp.untergrund.net/users/ltk_tscc/cd_roms/

[djglish]

OK, another question.  What is the best way to get the Anodyne programs from my PC to the ST?  I do have a 3.5" floppy drive in one of my older computers but don't think that it will read to ST formatted disks.  I'm using ICD Pro 6.5.5 for the hard drive controller.

Edited July 13, 2023 by djglish
needed to add info

[ggn]

If you can get the PC drive to format a FAT12 720k disk, the ST will very likely read it. So try doing that and then copy the files from your PC to the floppy.