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Title: CD32 questions
Post by: morcar on September 04, 2008, 07:38:29 AM

Going to get a CD32 for nothing soon and i was thinking about buying the floppy unit so i can run 1200 and 500 games on it. Now i remember when i had one ages ago it had a port to put a keyboard on it but what i wanted to know is was it only for amiga made keyboards or could i use a ps2 pc keyboard?.

Any other info would be welcomed also.

Title: Re: CD32 questions
Post by: madsjm on September 04, 2008, 07:41:46 AM

It's made for Amiga keyboards. The A4000 keyboard can be used directly, and A2000, A3000 with a simple adapter.

Title: Re: CD32 questions
Post by: CaptChaos on September 04, 2008, 10:35:43 AM

You cannot connect a floppy disk drive to a stock cd32 without additional rare and expensive hardware. You can however run whdload games on a stock cd32 by making your own cds with the required software on them (Workbench, WHDLoad, installed games etc.)

Title: Re: CD32 questions
Post by: rockape on September 04, 2008, 11:07:26 AM

Hi,

For help with your CD32 see http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/amiga/cd32/index.html

You will be surprised at what the CD32 can do, for example get the game Microcosm and watch the FMV intro :)

Kind Regards, Michael

aka rockape

Title: Re: CD32 questions
Post by: alexh on September 04, 2008, 11:42:23 AM

You can buy CD32 floppy disk drives from Analogic in the UK for £35.25 + postage (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170256652271)

CD32's can only use Amiga keyboards directly but you buy a PS2 adapter for between £10 and £30 (or make your own!)

Title: Re: CD32 questions
Post by: LoadWB on September 04, 2008, 02:08:00 PM

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alexh wrote:
You can buy CD32 floppy disk drives from Analogic in the UK for £35.25 + postage (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170256652271)

Gotta admit, that's pretty neat...

Title: Re: CD32 questions
Post by: alexh on September 04, 2008, 02:38:30 PM

They were created by Index Information headed by Mick Tinker, the guy who created the Amiga Access (http://bboah.com/cgi-bin/showhardware_en.cgi?HARDID=39) (Miniture A1200) and unreleased BoXer motherboard (http://bboah.com/cgi-bin/showhardware_en.cgi?HARDID=40) & Inside Out (http://bboah.com/cgi-bin/showhardware_en.cgi?HARDID=41)(Amiga on a PCI card).

It's real name is the CD32fWSI and was created for the Wall Street Institute (http://www.cd32-allianz.de/cd32tuning/wallstreet?)

As you can see from the photo's on the above link, as well as a floppy disk drive it has an RGB video out for SCART and an expansion port that comes with a real time clock (RTC) module but could easily take a RAM upgrade!

Title: Re: CD32 questions
Post by: tokyoracer on September 04, 2008, 05:31:20 PM

If you could find matching paint and spray it then that would look even better.