Hi guys. I just joined this site and I am very excited to get into amiga gaming. I am a snes and neo geo AES collector and I love love love retro gaming. As a child I first experienced Amiga games on a trip over to ireland and I fell in love. I am a huge point and click adventure game fan and this is precisely why I want to get into the scene. What I really need though is some advice though before I start making purchases etc. As I said before I am really into point and click adventures games but I also want to be able to hook up whatever system I am playing it on to my NTSC television (I live in vancouver canada). Soooo..... I was thinking that my best bet would be to roll with a CD32 and then get a floppy disk drive add on. I'm not really so into most of the CD titles other than beneath a steel sky and maybe D generation. Basically here are my questions. Firstly, can I plug in one of these analogue or SX floppy drives to a north american CD32? or do they only work on the PAL model. Secondly, I would like to know how difficult it will be if I buy a PAL cd32 to have it modded to output on my NTSC tv? The pal models are significantly cheaper to buy and I can ship it to a good friend of mines place in london and he will forward it to me so the ebay uk route is not a problem(I did a law degree in england). I do have SOME basic soldering experience through removing and swapping chips on a samurai spirits 2 neo geo board.
Thirdly, I'm wondering about the compatability of AMIGA 500/1200 games when they are playing through a CD32 floppy drive? Anyway, I have been doing some reading the last few weeks online and I cannot find any info relating to compatability between NTSC cd32's and floppy drives. Quite frankly I would much prefer to just buy a PAL model and mod it myself as it should be significantly cheaper but I digress. Thank you for all your help and opinions in advance. I just dream of kicking back on my sofa and playing leisure suit larry in my boxers with a nice shelf of AMIGA games in boxes within view.
