@ hazydave. Please tell me about these.

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Please tell me what ever happened to these. Did they actually work or are they just a mock up? Do they still exist? The information on amigahistory.co.uk is somewhat vague. Any technical insights would be really cool :cool:

I saw these at the last shows that commodore uk had a stand. I didn't pay much attention to it as I didn't have an A1200 at the time & it had also been widely publicised that you couldn't have an accelerator as well.
 
I think it was working and the ones that existed were sold. However my memory is probably a bit vague.

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I remember the explanation for using the trapdoor was specifically for full CD32 compatibility ie Akiko. There was no other way to do it.

But you don't need akiko to run 99% of the games and an 030 would be fast enough to do the same job anyway. Akiko was pretty much a failure.