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

[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

[odin]

A load of CD32s got stuck in the Far East when C= folded. The NTSC CD32s being sold on EBay are still a leftover from that stock AFAIK.

[recidivist]

 Looks like 12 CD-32s have been sold on eBay from Dec 04 to Dec15;not a huge number but about one per day.Might be a few more as ebay sellers and search don't always use correct titles or include all international ebay auctions.

[redrumloa]

Almost there...

[save2600]

Wow... looking at this reminds me of a gal I once dated. Sort of hacked, but very pretty at the same time in a unique kind of way.  lol

[redrumloa]

Bzzzz.. first test is a big fat failure. I suspect wire length / cross talk is the primary issue.



Some start up tests I actually get the Individual Computers splash screen, but it is somewhat garbled and the CD32 just sits there at it.

Gonna take some more work, but it is getting shelved for a while.

[Crom00]

Ouch. My indivision barely holds it together clipped on tight to my A1200, so I'm not surprise. A noble effort brother....

[delshay]

if i did this project,i would have soldered a PCB on top of indivision let it strech over the chip with a socket.

useing two PCB solder together for connecting the links,this would also held the indivision in place.

there seems to be a lot of wires in this project,i would have check to to remove unnecessary wires that is not needed.

another way is to remove the socket on the indivision altogether and add a PCB via a jrop down links then go up again with a socket over the chip,again holding the indivision in place.

this project could have been connected without a single wire in view all connections would be on the PCB via solder links or with wires ( if any ) out of view.

[weirdami]

What if you moved the indivision to where the yellow pcb is now to reduce distance to the chip and then do some wires from newly centered indivision to where it used to be? It'd be different things being soldered so maybe crosstalk/wirelength won't matter.