@ hazydave. Please tell me about these.

[maffoo]

This, and CD32, should have had a SIMM socket to add 32bit Fastram 2mb-4mb. Both were going to effectively be stuck at 7mhz 68020 speed which was a massive mistake for the sake of adding the SIMM socket for next to nothing.

I seem to remember reading a preview of this drive in Amiga Format, and I think it was going to include either 4mb or a SIMM socket to mitigate the loss of the trapdoor slot. This could just be my memory playing up though.

I had a Zappo drive attached to my A1200's PCMCIA slot back in the day, much better idea IMHO.

[maffoo]

I thought you could do that with PARNET?

Nope (been googling), it can't.  No parallel port on the CD32.

There is one on the CDTV, so I think that's what I was thinking about.

No idea how compatible a CDTV hooked to an Amiga 1200 with PARNET would be...

desiv

There was a kit that let you network an A1200 and CD32 using the serial port, maybe that's what you're thinking of? Never tried it, but I suspect it was slow!