Amiga CD32 FMV electrical schemes

[Carlo]

Hello Friends,

i'm searching FMV electrical schemes for Amiga CD32. Anyone knows where i can find them? Thank you in advance.

Carlo

ps. on www.retrocommodore.com you can find a brief article by Michael Tomczyk (ex Jack Tramiel's right hand)

[alexh]

You want to make / fix your own FMV cartridge?

Or you want to know the pinout to the CD32 edge connector that it plugs into?

[Carlo]

Dear Alex,

i want try to make my own FMV card for Amiga CD32...
I was searching Commodore's FMV but it is too expensive and rare...so i will try to make it by myself....
Is it possible for you?


Thank you very much!!

Carlo

[Jeff]

There is one on ebay for sale right now. IMO you would be better off paying whatever you have to to obtain one rather than trying to make one yourself. I would say for the average DIY'er it would be impossible to make a FMV.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=017&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=270121568988&rd=1&rd=1

I have owned the FMV for my CD32 and it not really that spectacular. A modern $30.00 DVD player is more versatile and capable. Still it's a cool device and very collectible:-)

Good Luck!
Jeff

[Carlo]

Dear Jeff,

i know that there is one on e-bay
But i think it will be very very expensive...

Do you have one? May you do some high resolutions foto of board? (so to see electrical devices on it...)
I have some friends (engineers) that i think may build one...

Thank you in advance, all the best

Carlo

[Jeff]

I had one (FMV) but I sold it a long time ago. It sounds like a great project, although I still think it will take a lot of time and money. If you can pull it off and it doesn't cost too much, I'm sure you would be able to sell some. There is still a lot of CD32's out there. I have two myself.

Good Luck,
Jeff

[leirbag28]

@Carlo

Carlo, Carlo, Carlo................where were you before I sold my FMV card!

anyways.....I used to know the schematics, that I gor from a website.........cant remember where.

But anyways, I am interested in your project.

Make sure if possible that your FMV card works with VIDEO CREATOR and SCALA MM300 applications.

I used to have a few CLI commands that controlled the FMV card from SCALA, so that I made a cool KIOSK with Music Videos played from VCD.

Also why not add DVD/MPEG2, MP3, Quicktime, WMV, DivX decoding?  at the very least MP3 and MPEG2. Also adding a clockport to the card would be nice.......giving the CD32 more expansion capabilities.

also be aware that there is VCD 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 as well as SVCD (Super VCD)

VCD 2.0 is the most common, and 1.0 were the ones for the Philips CD-i which also worked on the CD32.

I realise that the CD32 would need a DVD rom srive to read DVD movies, but that can be added later and you can burn MPEG2 files to CD in the meantime.

I also HIGHLY recommend that it be possible to plug it into the CD32 at the same time with an SX32 pro card!  this will make a SuperPowerful CD32 more powerful than most A4000's. More potential anyway in Genlocking and Video Presentation capabilities. My head can explode at the possibilities

Anyway check out CD32 Allianz, and Ian Steadmans SX32 page and also CD32 source on Google. Just do a search.

those pages contain alot of info
especially CD32 Allianz wich is a German page   http://www.cd32-allianz.de/
CD32 source  http://cd32.amiga32.com/

[Carlo]

Oh what a mistake where was i when you sold your FMV card???
Anyway i'm very happy for your interest in this project.
I have two friend of mine that are electronic engineers and i was talking with them about the possibility to build an FMV card..
We need first of all electric schemes (at least CD32's expansion port electrical scheme).
Sure mpeg2 and mpg4 capabilities will be VERY WONDERFUL!!
We will try...i think...
Hopefully...

Thank you for your suggestions and please, if you want, contact me at webmaster@retrocommodore.com


All the best, Carlo

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