CD32 Drive for A1200

[toomanymikes]

Am I making things up or am I right in believing that there was a CD32 drive developed for the A1200 to allow it to play CD32 games? If so do you know if commodore ever released it and if you can still get them now?

[Harrison]

Indeed there was a CD drive designed for the A1200 by Commodore, called the CD1200. It looks identical to the flip lid part of the CD32 but in white. However it was only ever seen as a prototype and never launched as Commodore got into financial trouble before it's date of launch.

Here is more information about it:

http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/cd1200.html

But there is an alternative. The A1200 Squirrel PCMCIA SCSI adaptor, released with an external SCSI CD drive was able to run most CD32 games on the A1200 via it's own custom CD32 emulation to trick games into thinking the A1200 has the Akiko chip and the 1K save game flash ram. Many games still didn't work perfectly, or at all though. But with most CD32 games also later appearing as A1200 AGA versions you could just use those, installing them to HD.

[Puni/Void]

That's right. I first got the Squirrel SCSI set back in 1995 and it worked perfectly from the start. Did never encounter any serious problems with it. It's easy to install as well, and takes no more than five minutes.

[FOL]

Bah, jam a slim CDROM drive into the A1200 Case, as I did and install IDEFIX97 (which has a CD32 Emulator). Works great for now I have it setup right.

[FOL]

Incase your wondering, heres my pics i posted over at EAB.


















Still needs abit of squaring off on the case. Also these pics so it with the IDEFIX EXPRESS installed (since removed as I had hastle). Just have the Buffered IDEFIX splitter installed now, so i can still run CD-ROM drive.

[Puni/Void]

That's a nice setup you have there, FOL. Although, compared to the Squirrel SCSI, it will be difficult for a person not used to tinkering with the insides of an Amiga to get it working without much hassle. With the Squirrel SCSI, it's plug and play all the way, which makes it easy to both install and use.