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I saw this thread:

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=33303

They have this on ebay, and when looking at the connector on the part that attaches to the CD32, I noticed the RTC port looks just like the SX32's card port.

If I bought this Analogic Floppy Drive for the CD32, Can I take off the SX32 card and attach it to this thing? Or perhaps some sort of graphics accelerator can be attatched to that slot?

Also, the Analogic Floppy Drive has a Parallel port, but what is that smaller 15-pin port? Will this thing play pretty much any A500/A1200 game from floppy?
 

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Re: CD32 Analogic Floppy Drive - Will it work w/SX32, small port on back?
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2010, 10:36:20 PM »
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The smaller port is a custom RGB-out plug. Analogic can supply a cord for it so you can plug it into an Amiga RGB monitor. I'm not sure if removing a SX32 board and inserting it back into the Floppy Drive unit in the RTC slot would work, but I'm sure it wouldn't hurt to try if you got them both. I'd love one of those Floppy Drives for a CD32 myself, but I was always planing on some day buying one of those NTSC CD32s from China, but now they're all sold out!


I figured as much about the 15-pin plug, so I already emailed Analogic on ebay about this port and cable, but they haven't replied. If this really did work with the SX32 PCB, I would love to have this attachment, as it would retain the "all in one" feel of the SX32 MKII that I have - I just don't like the idea of the tethered external floppy drive compared to this thing.
 

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Re: CD32 Analogic Floppy Drive - Will it work w/SX32, small port on back?
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2010, 10:50:52 PM »
I would also like to know if there was a way to burn a bunch of .adf floppy images to CD and somehow transfer them to floppy with the CD32 and this floppy drive attachment?
 

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Re: CD32 Analogic Floppy Drive - Will it work w/SX32, small port on back?
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2010, 11:24:28 PM »
I realize the full potential of WHDload, but I cannot for the life of me, get WHDload to work on my CD32/SX32 setup.

See here: http://eabmobile.abime.net/showthread.php?p=647705#post647705

I figure floppy is a fail-safe alternative
 

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Re: CD32 Analogic Floppy Drive - Will it work w/SX32, small port on back?
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2010, 01:32:15 AM »
I was lucky to get a PAL CD32 from a guy in the USA for a very good price and it included a box, games, etc. It doesn't matter since my CD32 + SX32 MKII is now connected to my RGB/VGA monitor