Commodore amiga cd32 with floppy disc drive

[fondpondforever]

Alright everyone, this is my first post on the English Amiga board. My name is ted and I am from cornwall, England. I decided to invest in buying a refurbished amiga cd32 console and an an external floppy disc drive to attach on to the console from analogic computers. It cost me £110. I've got a boomerang cd32 controller from amigakit (anyone know what there like?) and some amazing games like James pond 2, zool and Puggsy which are on floppy disc. Do you know if they will play on my cd32 with the external drive installed. Does the amiga 3.1 operating system come up when you put a floppy into the cd32 drive? I'm so excited about playing some retro gaming at it's finest from 85 to 95 on the genius dream machine code named spellbound! Thank you for your time.

[Zak]

Hello fondpondforever! I have a CD32 myself, but never had a disk drive for it. I will be waiting for you to report your experiences with it! I even have no clue how the drive is attached. But I think for Workbench to pop up, you will need a disk with Workbench installed to it.

[amigapd]

I have the exact same floppy drive from analogic computers and have played many amiga disk games. You can also use relokick disk to make the system boot to any earlier kick start which will help with some older games. What you do need is a keyboard though to play non cd32 games - even if it is jut to press p to pause them.

I think you can get James Pond 2 on the cd32 - not sure if there was extra music or levels for that version.

Don't know if you like pd games but I created a compilation disk for the cd32

http://www.amigapd.com/cd32-compilation-download.html

[Zak]

@amigapd: how about the killanim procedure that is required for CD? Do you just insert a disk and that´s it like on A500?

[fondpondforever]

I've got an amiga one keyboard from amiga kit. Will that work? Thanks

[amigapd]

I can't remember the killanim procedure

I remember using tude from amint as part of the start sequence for some games on the cd i created.

http://aminet.net/package/util/misc/TUDE

Basically with the disk drive the cd32 is similar to the Amiga 1200 - the way it works is that it checks the 3.5 disk drive first - if there is a disk in there it boots - otherwise it checks the cd drive and then boots to the cd32 boot screen.

If you have got a mouse with your cd32 you can do the same thing as on the Amiga 1200 where holding down both mouse buttons gives you a different boot screen where you can select chip set and change display to NTSC.

re: fondpondforver Recommend Fire and Ice CD32 version if you like platform game - music is better than disk version.

[fondpondforever]

Ok thanks. So do you know if an amigaone keyboard will work on a cd32. Do I need to get an adapter lead?

[Sandro]

Originally Posted by fondpondforever

Ok thanks. So do you know if an amigaone keyboard will work on a cd32. Do I need to get an adapter lead?

the amigaone keyboard is a pc keyboard with amiga logs
to use it on a cd32 or amiga4000 etc you need the lyra 2 adapter
but remember you must have an expansion in ur cd32 which allow to connect amiga keyboards

[fondpondforever]

Wow that's cool, what expansion do I need?

[amigapd]

You dont need an expansion for some amiga keyboards as the cd32 has a keyboard socket at the left. Search ebay for amiga 4000 or cd32 keyboards and you can plug them straight in. If you want to use a pc keyboard then you need a ps/2 keyboard adapter which are sold on eBay.

[fondpondforever]

That sounds excellent, so all I need to fire away is the Lyra 2 adapter for an amigaone keyboard. How about an amigaone mouse, do I need another adapter for that? Thanks.

[Zak]

Originally Posted by amigapd

I can't remember the killanim procedure

When you start CD32 there is this little animation. This needs to be stopped in order to start a program from CD. Usually there is a program called "killanim" or something alike and it´s mostly the first entry in startup-sequence. But from what you say, I can estimate that the floppy drive is checked before the animation starts, so that it´s not necessary to install it to floppy disk.

Edit: I have been looking into some of my CD´s, seems as if this can be performed by a setpatch command or something similar, too. Well the essence is, you need to stop the animation and my question was if that´s necessary for floppy programs, too.

[Cymru]

I believe the AmigaOne mouse is a PS/2 and would need an adapter. Vesalia, Elbox, AmigaKit, and an Amiga guy, "Mounty" sell them. Mounty's products are on Ebid and EBay. I have several of each and they all work well.

[fondpondforever]

awesome.