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Offline morcarTopic starter

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CD32 questions
« on: September 04, 2008, 07:38:29 AM »
Going to get a CD32 for nothing soon and i was thinking about buying the floppy unit so i can run 1200 and 500 games on it. Now i remember when i had one ages ago it had a port to put a keyboard on it but what i wanted to know is was it only for amiga made keyboards or could i use a ps2 pc keyboard?.

Any other info would be welcomed also.
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Re: CD32 questions
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2008, 07:41:46 AM »
It's made for Amiga keyboards. The A4000 keyboard can be used directly, and A2000, A3000 with a simple adapter.
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Re: CD32 questions
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2008, 10:35:43 AM »
You cannot connect a floppy disk drive to a stock cd32 without additional rare and expensive hardware. You can however run whdload games on a stock cd32 by making your own cds with the required software on them (Workbench, WHDLoad, installed games etc.)
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Re: CD32 questions
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2008, 11:07:26 AM »
Hi,

For help with your CD32 see http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/amiga/cd32/index.html

You will be surprised at what the CD32 can do, for example get the game Microcosm and watch the FMV intro :)

Kind Regards, Michael

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Re: CD32 questions
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2008, 11:42:23 AM »
You can buy CD32 floppy disk drives from Analogic in the UK for £35.25 + postage

CD32's can only use Amiga keyboards directly but you buy a PS2 adapter for between £10 and £30 (or make your own!)
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Re: CD32 questions
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2008, 02:08:00 PM »
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alexh wrote:
You can buy CD32 floppy disk drives from Analogic in the UK for £35.25 + postage


Gotta admit, that's pretty neat...
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Re: CD32 questions
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2008, 02:38:30 PM »
They were created by Index Information headed by Mick Tinker, the guy who created the Amiga Access (Miniture A1200) and unreleased BoXer motherboard & Inside Out(Amiga on a PCI card).

It's real name is the CD32fWSI and was created for the Wall Street Institute

As you can see from the photo's on the above link, as well as a floppy disk drive it has an RGB video out for SCART and an expansion port that comes with a real time clock (RTC) module but could easily take a RAM upgrade!
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Re: CD32 questions
« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2008, 05:31:20 PM »
If you could find matching paint and spray it then that would look even better.
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