Can I use a CD32 Kickstart in another Amiga?

[Hyperspeed]

@leirbag28

What's the box between the keyboard port and the cable?

I've seen one CD32 using a remote control, is that what it is?

What do you know about the SX32's RAM limit, for the Pro model it says
64Mb but I see some people selling 128Mb on theirs occasionaly!?

Is there still no way to use FMV + SX32 at the same time?

[leirbag28]

@Hyperspeed

The thing on the side is indeed that remote control reciever/Modem that was used in a Bank in Canada as a Banking system.it comes with a remote that lets you control the CD Player like a CDTV.....Cool!   it even works with SCALA to change Pages in a presentation!  I have the remote and 2 of these units.

The SX32 Pro is capable of handling up to 128MB of RAM. the bo and intructions allsay 64MB.I guess 128Mb SIMMS didnt exit at the time, so maybe they didnt know..............I have 128MB on my own SX32 and it works great...........I imagine if there was such a thing as 256MB SIMM that it would work as well.

And no The FMV card cannot be used simultaneously with the SX32.......although I am working on findng someone who will build an adaptor.............maybe Jens?  :-)

[jj]

In reply to earlier question, the boot menu and animation etc is not in the cd32 3.1 rom, but in the extend rom

[Doobrey]

Nope, it is in the CD32 rom.
It`s a single 1Mb Rom, the "extended" rom is in the lower 512k, and the normal rom in the top 512k.
 The only reason you find it split into 2 parts is so UAE can handle it the way it does for the CDTV roms.

 What I didn`t expect is the normal rom has all the guff that the A1200 uses, but is useless on the CD32.. scsi.device and the PCMCIA resources.

[Hyperspeed]

So what does the SX32's hard disk run on if the scsi.device (A1200's
IDE port) is useless?

I've read that the SX32 uses the CD-ROM drive's access light to show
it's doing something as well. Strange!

If there is an unused pcmcia.device lurking on the CD32's ROM then
wouldn't it be within grasp to retrofit a PCMCIA port to the CD32?

That'd allow you to network via ethernet!

:-o

@leirbag28

What did a Canadian bank use the infra-red thing for? Does it have IR
and modem BOTH in that small box on the keyboard port?

Also, has SCSI been considered for CD32 (allowing the use of a burner,
scanner etc.) because the DataFlyer SCSI is in fact an IDE ribbon with
SCSI conversion.

Just like those IDE-SCSI hard disk adaptors floating around.

:-)

I know a lot of Atari Jaguar owners programmed ROMs for it after Atari
went bankrupt but the potential for the CD32 is far greater.
Particularly since people are only now trying stuff out with
Dreamcast/GameCube/X-Box such as Linux etc.

:-D

[leirbag28]

Doobrey wrote:
 What I didn`t expect is the normal rom has all the guff that the A1200 uses, but is useless on the CD32.. scsi.device and the PCMCIA resources.
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Doobrey, I don't believe that it's useless to put it in............I love when they do that, because it leaves room for expansion, and as Hyperspeed said.I think the same of the SX32, that it uses these scsi devices in the ROM..........I also believe the PCMCIA will be able to be used one day, no matter what anybody says.

@Hyperspeed

Well besides it being ussed for customers to check their account (I think)  it does havea modem and an infrared reciever.........and I think it was so that employees can listen to music or change the music that was playing..and it's possible the banking software was able to be controlled with the infrared remote......don't really know all the details.....only telling you what I have heard or read about it.....................but I do have this device and its great to be able to control my CD32/SX32 from far away for changing the music on the CD's or for SCALA when doing presentations in public.............I love it. Not sure how to use the Modem on it though.........I believe it's really slow.

Now about that DataFlyer, hmm I didnt know that it was actually an IDE cable converted to SCSI...so it sounds possible to be able to use it then on a CD32/SX32..that would be great.

[Hyperspeed]

That's crazy!

Online banking on a CD32!

:-D :-D

So do you have any more history on it? How would you access this on a
2mb 14Mhz machine, was it some sort of Telnet?

Hell, I bet the Sega-CD didn't have this back in 1993!

;-)

Where did you get it?

I know Eyetech sell some sort of hack for allowing the A1200 to be
controlled via infra-red but this CD32 one is very interesting.

How does it interact with Scala?

:-o