Today's project: Hack an Indivision into a CD32!

[klx300r]

GO RED GO :pint:  :bow:

[mongo]

How much room is there between the motherboard and the bottom of the case in a CD32? Enough room for a crystal by any chance?

If there is, or if you're willing to make a hole in the bottom of the case, mount it on the bottom of the board. Just flip it over, rotate it by 180 degrees, mount pins 7 & 8 into their regular holes and run a wire from pin 14 to the original pin 14 hole. You can just cut off pin 1 because it's not used.

[redrumloa]

mongo wrote:
How much room is there between the motherboard and the bottom of the case in a CD32? Enough room for a crystal by any chance?

No, there isn't...

[Crom00]

Good luck. Sounds like a fun project. The CD32 is friggin cool. With the SX-1 and a CF card HD, 8 megs ram, a PC keyboard. Nice... The CD32 is like the only new old stock item showing up these days on ebay so I revisited this system.

Have all my games and whdload stuff on there. Cool to connect it to a modern HDTV TV. My HDTV has somekind of filter in there that makes the S-video output really really nice.

Used to have the video module too for playing Hong Kong Chop Socky flicks from mainland china as in Shenzen you could walk into a store with wall to wall VCD's for like 25 cents each.

Ok so I'm stoppoing at the A1200 and CD32, got em cheap. My collection is complete.

[redrumloa]

WIP



About 1/4 done with the wiring. Done for today, maybe until my wire wrap order comes in next week. Slow going this way..

[billt]

Looks interesting. Hope the wiring doesn't mess up the signals too bad. What about a PCB that would go where your PCB starts, but is layed out with a new "chip plug" to the right in your picture but is rotates 90 degrees. Would the flickerfixer fit that way, with the longer arm pointing to the left in this picture instead of toward the expansion edge connector? OK, PCB layout may cost mroe and take a bit to receive, plus getting the "chip plug" as the opposite if the chip socket. But might helo clean things up if you get bad picture due to all those longer wires. I am interested to see how well your experiment goes though.

[weirdami]

i see. the cd32 has an edge connector like a1200 did. :oops:

[alexh]

Different shape and pinout though... most of the signals are the same. You can build an A1200->CD32 adapter PCB

[Lando]

alexh wrote:
Different shape and pinout though... most of the signals are the same. You can build an A1200->CD32 adapter PCB

I didn't know that.  So, in theory with this adaptor PCB you could put a Blizzard PPC and/or Mediator busboard in a CD32 too?

[Lorraine]

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[recidivist]

 Can you not just build/buy a TALL socket extender,rather than all those long wires?

 Put CD32 in new case or make  filler pieces to go between original case top and bottom ?

[alexh]

Lando wrote:
So, in theory with this adaptor PCB you could put a Blizzard PPC and/or Mediator busboard in a CD32 too?

Not IN the CD32 but sticking out the back. Sure. I only tried a RAM card and a 1230 but I imagine anything would work.

[redrumloa]

recidivist wrote:
 Can you not just build/buy a TALL socket extender,rather than all those long wires?

 Put CD32 in new case or make  filler pieces to go between original case top and bottom ?

Go any taller and you obstruct expansion hardware (ie SX32)

[weirdami]

Are you putting a cap thing on top of that chip or are you about to remove that chip and put it on that board?

[pyrre]

I say... by the end of this decade that we send a man to the moon and do the other things, like fit an indivision 1200 into a CD32 with SX32 Pro.  
We do these things... not because they are easy... but because they are hard

And of course... because we can!
 :-D

[recidivist]

OK red,

Now your next project is to be the PPC-32.
I suppose you had better use a slower chip as you are hand soldering and wire-wrapping.

Do try to have the prototype finished and tested by 1 Jan 2009 !The wise men will be placing their orders for production units a week later.



It occurs to me that the CD-32 is the ONLY TRUE AMIGA currently being sold on eBay daily.(Was there a huge warehouse in China full of them or do you suppose they are new production?) :-D