Broken CD32 drive. Can I replace it

[leirbag28]

Yes, it is possible to replace the CD32's CD-ROM drive.  Remove the old one. and get yourself a slimline CD ROM drive from a laptop. The buy yourself an SX32 and connect it via the IDE port (you'll need a hardrive and IDE fix with 4 way adaptor)  then cut a slot shaped like the CD drive infront of the CD32 where the old drive was.


Whalla! only problem is, that your CD32 wont boot from it. At least not the games and CD+G and audio CD's I don't think :-)

[leirbag28]

@Hyperspeed

 Hahaha.yeah, thats the Super expensive route I forgot to mention :-)

Anyway, I would love to do this myself to my CD32 soon. It might even run CD32 games in A1200 mode using the sx32, in the same way that the A4000 and A1200 have a CD32 emulator to run it off any CDrom drive. So since the CD32 with an SX32 pro is actually an A1200, the emulator should work. So you can boot games the same way you boot games with WHDLoad. :-)............Also I have an Image of the CD32 ROM, so maybe someone can create a way to tap into the software on the ROM from Workbench, the same way someone did with the CDTV Toolkit thingy..which lets you boot and run the stuff on the CDTV ROMS like the screen saver and the CDPlayer interface.

[leirbag28]

@Hyperspeed

 Boy, all that stuff you just said sounds darn interesting.................the reason I have not added scsi is because I never knew that device you just mentioned existed!  where can i get it?  also it is possible to connect an IDE to CompactFlash adaptor in the IDE port............which I will be doing sometime.............I also happen to have an internal SCSI PCMCIA drive! so maybe I can use that at some point.

I have not gotten any luck out of Ruff N Tumble.

Now what did you mean when you asked "Let me know when you find a spare"    a spare what?