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Floppy Drive for Amiga CD32?
« on: January 05, 2010, 08:12:38 AM »

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Re: Floppy Drive for Amiga CD32?
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2010, 08:54:56 AM »

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Re: Floppy Drive for Amiga CD32?
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2010, 12:23:49 PM »

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Re: Floppy Drive for Amiga CD32?
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2010, 12:36:12 PM »

i do know nothing about CD32,
but and with this drive can you play old games for A500 and for Kick 1.2 - 1.3 ect? i think no..
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Re: Floppy Drive for Amiga CD32?
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2010, 10:03:05 PM »

it all depends on what you want to achive.

I have the Sx-1 expansion for my CD32, and it's good for getting the most oout of the machine - it has extra fastram and an HD, and a floppy port and Keyboard port.

This means i can pretty much treat it like an A1200, and even run WHDload installed games on it.

The unit itself however, is bulky and disconnects from the machine a lot. An extra keybaord also takes up an annoying amount of space. These sort of things are exactly why i prefer my A1200. (nice cosy, all in one unit).


The SX32 expansion is better, and also comes with a better processor. This one slides "inside" the Cd32 mostly, rather than hanging off the back. This is by far the most desirably, and therefore expensive option.

The floppy expansion, as far as i know, doesnt given anyting else does it? No fast ram, no HD options. If you just want to play a few games that are CD32 compatible, (you may find a fair number of your favourites are not CD32 compatible on disk, although you can use a program called "Relokick" to emulate kicstart 1.3 and improve compatibilty a bit) and dont require a keyboard, thats fine, but a bit of fastram and an HD goes a lot further in you choices of games to play on the CD32 than a floppy drive does.


Hope that helps slightly
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Re: Floppy Drive for Amiga CD32?
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2010, 02:20:40 PM »

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Re: Floppy Drive for Amiga CD32?
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2010, 02:25:18 PM »

I actually have "North and South" boxed back in England...  I might have bought it myself on ebay back when I was at university...
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....  great game!  .. unsure I'd part with it though, its a good piece of nostalgia - oh, and its in England... a little far from where I am at the moment ;/
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Re: Floppy Drive for Amiga CD32?
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2010, 08:27:04 PM »

Well you've given me the options to think about.

I'm watching an SX-1 on ebay so if goes for the right price then I'll go for that.


@emuchicken: When you return and (if you ever) fancy parting with the game then please give me shout... if not I'll just keep my eyes peeled on ebay.

As allways - Thanks for the advice peeps.  ;D
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Re: Floppy Drive for Amiga CD32?
« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2010, 08:41:17 PM »

I blew my SX-1 up, :(. Was modding and stupidly didnt confirm the socket pinouts and wired it all reversed. The keyboard translation IC baught it first, then my Alice cooked on my CD32, :(. I was devastated.
Main reason for mod was SX-1 was crap (connection wise), it kept comming loose and causing lots of problems. Idea was to mount it internally, ;).

As for the floppy attachment, thats all it is. You will still face the problems of old game not working.


Well you've given me the options to think about.

I'm watching an SX-1 on ebay so if goes for the right price then I'll go for that.


@emuchicken: When you return and (if you ever) fancy parting with the game then please give me shout... if not I'll just keep my eyes peeled on ebay.

As allways - Thanks for the advice peeps.  ;D
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Re: Floppy Drive for Amiga CD32?
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Re: Floppy Drive for Amiga CD32?
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Re: Floppy Drive for Amiga CD32?
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