Finally got the Amiga CD32, New in box.

[som99]

Been after a nice looking Amiga CD32 for quite some time, and out of nowhere a local retro gaming store put up two new never used ones on buy now price for only $173 (USD) on the Swedish ebay!

A steal in my neck of the world!

Strangely enough either of them had a PSU, where they in a seperate box or something?
I had 4 pin DIN connectors and a spare black A1200 HD PSU so making one was a breeze and black PSU looks good to a black system
Some might think I am stupid for using a A1200 black PSU but I got spares and I can restore it with original connector if needed

Boot's up great, no video/audio problems what so ever, might re-cap it just because when I got time.

No problems reading CD-R's, tried a few different brands without issues.

So I'm happy that I finally got one and here are some pics for the people who like to see ^^

The box:




The box opened, the cat liked the smell of vintage hardware


Most of the content:


The sweet machine, protective films on and everything



Controller and stuffs, the Dpad is adhesive I guess and not on the controller when new.


Donor PSU.



And the new connector on:


Last pic, some random games I tried:


That's about it, happy owner of a CD32 and in this condition it's even more fun
Was going to buy both but decided to let someone else get the other one, no reason to hoard better let someone else be happy with it

Now time to build spare CD32 controllers

[som99]

@danwood - Thanks! I will surely have a lot of fun with it, probably the first time in some years I found a boxed new one for sale here in Sweden for a good price Of the systems I am missing in my collection this one was the one I wanted the most (consoles that is)

@Yasu - It was Retrospelbutiken and they still got the one I didn't buy left, so if you want one buy it before someone else does! PM if you can't find it and need a direct link

They do from time to time sell stuff for decent prices and I have bought quite a lot from them over the years

Edit: Just saw they have gotten 4x new ones for sale now! Great news for people wanting a mint CD32 Would be fun knowing where they got em!

Edit: 3x left.

[som99]

The PSU should be in the same box as the system, I've never seen it packed separately.
If its not there, it was removed at some point.

Yeah, my guess is they where UK plugs or something, why they are gone I do not know, nothing else in the box is touched so strange but since the CD32 uses commonly avaliable 4-pin DIN's there ain't much trouble setting up a PSU for it

The original CD32 PSU uses the same moulds as the C64 "Brick" PSU but black, I could take out the internals of a C64 PSU and hack together a supply for CD32 and paint it black, but I am happy enough with a black A1200 HD PSU

[som99]

Looks great, congrats!  

Don't let the cat pee in the box.  :kitty:

Thanks! Yeah pee in the box would suck xD
(Tho she only pee in the litterbox or outside so that's good for me)

I agree, the cat looks great!

She sure does Five years old but still come running when she hear me opening cardboard boxes/packages xD

[som99]

The cat was in bundle?

I understand your happiness: I brought mine a couple of months ago:

Haha if so poor cat

Yeah I'm really happy about it! Nice one you got there, aslo new I see, may I ask what you payed for it? Did you get a PSU or without?

Would be nice to know some stories where the new ones where found

[som99]

I still have my old CD32 that I got in the 90's. After picking it up, I spent the whole day home from school - a sudden and serious case of the sniffles - playing Oscar, Diggers, and Alien Breed: Tower Assault. Good times!

Haha great story, I to have stayed home from school a few times when I got new hardware! Sadly the shops around where I lived back then did not have any CD32's so all I could do was read about it in magazines :/

Oooh, store in Varberg! If my wife wouldn't have killed me on the spot for buying new stuff a month before moving, I'd be on the Øresund train right now to go get one.

Haha I know the feeling, been there also I fortunately live quite resonable close to Varberg (122km)

I paid 250 %&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!8364; (about 280 $ USD)... it was in a warehouse of an old store in Napoli (Italy).
I know it's so expensive, but it's really new, just unsold and forgotten.


I owned a CD32 since day one, given to me by my parents for my 18's birthday... unfortunately it blew up some years ago, so I decided to buy a new one for my cdxl project "AmigaAnimeCD".

250£ Ain't to bad to be honest, I would probably have payed that also, boxed ones usually go for more where I live and ours where spanking brand new

Nice birthday present there! To bad about your original CD32, do you still have it? Any idéa what went wrong with it? I would gladly help as much as I can

[som99]

There does seem to be two revisions of the CD32, one has the Commodore text painted white and a raised ridge area at the back of the CD-ROM lid, the other lacks this.

I always thought the ones with the white text and ridge were the later NTSC models for Canada?

This could back that theory up: http://www.amazon.com/Amiga-CD32-~-NTSC-Version/dp/B003NNR3UG

This I did not even notice to be honest, ain't the NTSC versions a lot more rare?

If it is a NTSC unit that might explain the lack of PSU, since we use 220-240V/50Hz mains here, could be someone tried them and they blew up or something, no idea ^^

I have a NTSC CD32 with the raised ridge and white Commodore text. I wonder if som99's CD32 is an NTSC model. If his monitor/TV displays NTSC modes correctly, then he may not notice a problem until he finds a PAL only game. This would still only be a minor inconvenience as PAL can be selected in the boot menu before loading a game.

Nearly every  single TV set here in Sweden has support for NTSC even if we live in a PAL region so the thought didn't cross my mind that it could be NTSC.

I'm away working until Friday but I will check if my CD32 is a PAL or NTSC and report back when I get home

[som99]

I was interested in buying one from them a while ago, but i suspected it was NTSC versions they sold as the PSU was missing. I tried to ask them, but they said that there isn't any difference between PAL and NTSC models, which i doubt.

Seems like you can hardware mod them to output PAL as standard though.

Here's an EAB thread about NTSC CD32 http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=39646&page=2

Thanks for the link.

NTSC or PAL dosn't really matter to me, since our TV's support both PAL and NTSC that's no issue, the games that needs the CD32 in PAL mode requires me to boot up in PAL or just do the little mod internally, lift pin 41 on Alice and put a switch there so that's no problem.

So really no issues for me with a NTSC machine, do you know about any other issues the NTSC vs PAL CD32 has since you do not want to buy the NTSC version?

Strange tho that the sellers did not mention it's NTSC systems, also funny enough they have raised the price 12USD after every sold unit, 12USD after I bought one and today just a while ago someone bought another one (a while after i posted they had 4x) and then they bumped the price another 12USD xD So mine was 22USD cheaper no biggie but still a bit funny ^^

[som99]

According to the Amazon link above, yeah!
Could explain how you found a NOS machine if they were only on sale for 7 days.

Yeah it sure explains it, been sitting in a warehouse forever waiting for me

No idea how many NTSC contra PAL units there are but I don't mind having a NTSC unit I am just happy I got a CD32 so that was just a surprise and since I still can run PAL games on it. Tho I think I should re-cap it when I got the time

[som99]

Forgot to write back, yeah my CD32 is a NTSC system