Can CD32 Connect to Internet?

[BozzerBigD]

Wow, me think fondpondforever has limitless time and money on his hands to start thinking about sourcing and modding CD1200 prototypes and reverse engineering rare SX32-Pro expansions into PPC accelerators! That would have been insane for DCE to attempt back in 1997/98 never mind by an eccentric (possibly millionaire) Amigan in 2016 who thinks AmigaOS 4.1FE has even a chance of running without a PPC processor!

I like your optimism but I can't help think you'd be happier messing around with a A-EON AmigaOne X5000 than rewiring a rare and valuable Amiga Classic museum pieces to get the same functionality. P.S. An internet enabled machine running AGA screenmodes isn't going to be much fun or very fast even if it has a 030 accelerator.

[BozzerBigD]

Is fondpodforever starting an Amiga museum? That's the only reason I can see that he's sourcing a classic Amiga collection of these ultra-rare items.

[BozzerBigD]

We're not discounting the benefit of turning a CD32 into a fully functioning 030 50Mhz CD based Amiga computer, it is quite frankly awesome as a OS3.9 machine with full CD32 compatibility and highly portable! However, it will never run OS4.x as no one is going to retrofit a CD32 with a PPC accelerator at this point in our history. What would be the point? Where is the market? The SX32 line only sold around 2,000 units from 1995-98 as far as I can remember. An awesome product but the market simply wasn't there. People ditched the CD32 to buy a Playstation and didn't think to upgrade their Amigas like I did.