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Title: C= CD1200 prototype - any around?
Post by: dandelion on September 04, 2003, 11:24:56 AM

I was looking through some old Amiga mags the other day when I came across a front page featuring the C= CD1200. This was going to be the official Commodore CD upgrade for thr 1200. I believe it connected to the trapdoor slot, was of the same colour, and looked basically like a sawn of CD32. Actually it was very pretty.

Are there any in existance or were the prototypes discared? How close did it come to production I wonder?

Title: Re: C= CD1200 prototype - any around?
Post by: xeron on September 04, 2003, 11:29:03 AM

AFAIK there were only two ever shown the public, *but* considering the recent finds of Commodore stuff, and the previous sale of prototypes like the C65, who knows what lies in warehouses out there? ;-)

Title: Re: C= CD1200 prototype - any around?
Post by: Lando on September 04, 2003, 01:12:07 PM

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dandelion wrote:
I was looking through some old Amiga mags the other day when I came across a front page featuring the C= CD1200. This was going to be the official Commodore CD upgrade for thr 1200. I believe it connected to the trapdoor slot, was of the same colour, and looked basically like a sawn of CD32. Actually it was very pretty.

Are there any in existance or were the prototypes discared? How close did it come to production I wonder?

I've seen a couple of these on Ebay.de in recent months.  They were very cheap too.

I don't understand why they chose to use the trapdoor slot (meaning you can't add more memory or use a turbocard) when theres a perfectly good PCMCIA slot 4 inches to the left.

Title: Re: C= CD1200 prototype - any around?
Post by: xeron on September 04, 2003, 01:18:50 PM

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Lando wrote:
I've seen a couple of these on Ebay.de in recent months.  They were very cheap too.

Ooh! Are the auction pages still up?

Title: Re: C= CD1200 prototype - any around?
Post by: gnarly on September 04, 2003, 02:44:07 PM

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Lando wrote:
I don't understand why they chose to use the trapdoor slot (meaning you can't add more memory or use a turbocard) when theres a perfectly good PCMCIA slot 4 inches to the left.

It was because they needed to include an updated KS ROM and Akiko IIRC.

Title: Re: C= CD1200 prototype - any around?
Post by: Indoro on September 04, 2003, 03:34:50 PM

Several prototypes exist, actually. I happen to own one with full schematics.

//R//

Title: Re: C= CD1200 prototype - any around?
Post by: olegil on September 04, 2003, 03:57:35 PM

You can't just say that and not point us to any pictures ;-)