I just got a buttload new CD32s! updated more pics!!

[amigadave]

redrumloa wrote:
Selling like hot cakes! Only a handful left from my first shipment!

I bought one on eBay years ago.  How much are you charging for them?  I don't see them on your website store.

[amigadave]

Zekaric wrote:
What would someone need to do in order to make a CD32 into a A500/A600 like machine?  Would it properly run most of the Amiga software?

You would need a SX-1, SX32, or SX32 Pro which would give you a floppy drive connector to attach an external floppy drive.  The CD32 already has an AUX port for an A4000 style keyboard and a mouse can be inserted into one of the joypad ports.  That would give you the same functionality of an A500/A600 and it should run all the same software that any A500/A600 with OS3.1 ROMs installed will run.

You can also install a hard drive inside the SX-1 enclosure.  The SX32 Pro allows a 2.5" hdd to be installed inside the CD32 itself, and I think the SX32 also works the same way, but without the SX32 Pro's 68030 CPU and 68882 FPU.

The CD32 is actually a very good Amiga option if you don't want to expand it much, as the accelerator options are extremely rare and limited in number of different ones made (the only one I know of is the SX32 Pro but there might be more).

To get a brand new Amiga of any kind is sort of rare these days, so if you are interested in getting one, give Red a PM and start having fun with your very own brand new Amiga!

[amigadave]

Hans_ wrote:
@redrumloa

If that's a butt-load of CD32s then someone's got a big butt! :-P

Nice find. I have to wonder why they have been sitting in their boxes all these years. It would have been easy to find buyers for them years ago.

Hans

There may be more than one seller in China, but at least one seller has been selling his stock on eBay for the past several years.  I bought one of those about three years ago.

I don't know how many were manufactured in the stock made in the Phillipines, that was never shipped to Commodore just before they went bankrupt, but it must have been perhaps a few thousand, or at least several hundreds.

I feel really bad that Red has decided to dump them at his cost and is considering never stocking them again, as I was one of the people that questioned his price (in private) because I thought since he ordered so many, he must have gotten a big price break on the shipping cost from China.  Red responded that he did not get any price break per unit on his order of multiple units, so I then understood and supported his pricing of his CD32 units.  He has the right to make a profit for his time, trouble and the risk he took to put out a sizable chunk of money to get them here.  I think it was a rip-off that the seller in China did not offer Red a discount on the shipping of his multiple unit purchase that would have allowed Red to sell them for less and still make a profit.

I suspect that Red probably should not have posted a link to the eBay seller where the buyers of Red's units could have purchased their CD32's directly for less money, as this might have led to them complaining after the fact about his price, but I am just guessing.

We all know how cheap some Amiga users can be, it is just a shame that Red was coerced into feeling that he needed to refund some people and sell the rest of his stock at cost.