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This is off-topic. This thread is clearly title "What makes the CD32 the BEST Amiga?" As for saying "a picky CD Drive". That may be true but it still has a CD Drive in the first place when no other Amiga does So while your points are mostly right - other Amigas have one button controllers and suck in comparison. And they lack Akiko and streaming off the CD. The CD32 was the best Amiga experience you could get back then |
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Commodore should have either increased flash or had expansion plans for it. Sent from my I3113 using Tapatalk |
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The thread should really be renamed to "Is the Amiga CD32 the best Amiga?", and then discussion from both side are suitable
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27 December 2020, 19:35 | #246 |
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Or: What was the best about the CD32 console? The multi-button controller. Cased closed.
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like I say when it was released it was not my favourite I think it could of been so much more.
What could make it a favourite now is it a all in one unit with a high storage capacity media i.e CD that can hold many classic games on a compilation disc, it is AGA 68020 with 2mb that is good for things like WHDload, it also brought 6 button joypad to Amiga - I don't like joysticks/1 button it is capable of streaming video, people like earok have used this. |
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A1200 is also AGA 68020, has 2MB of Chipram, has also full joypad button support and you can install all the games on harddisk instead of a CD, even more. Plus you can play all the games which require a keyboard.
What streaming video do you mean ? You don't mean the old VCD movies, do you ? |
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So you can install cd32 games with cdda audio. Hmmm, how is this done? What program are you using? Sent from my I3113 using Tapatalk |
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you need games that support the controller through lowlevel library or natively (for instance whdload slaves)
But before the CD32 noone had the idea to create a controller like that. So CD32 brought some standardization on that point at least. |
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They were actually very proud of Akiko. Someone should do an interview with the engineers about the CD32 and ask about these things |
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Never had a problem with the gamepad when using the cd32 emulator. And there are also whdload slaves supporting this. Where did I say that you can cd32 games with cdda audio ? Nowhere. That said there were A1200 Tower and A4000 Desktop+Tower available. Easily added with cdrom. All in one unit. And then you could of course play cd32 games directly with cd audio. Although I still would prefer the A4000 desktop which I owned back then. Much neater than a tower. For the "classic" A1200 you would have required an external cdrom. Not so neat and tidy, but still works. On a base cd32 you can't attach a keyboard. If I would have to choose I would decide for the MUCH bigger additional library of games which require a keyboard instead of the few interesting titles of cd32 which deliver cd audio. I know you can expand the CD32, f.ex. with the SX32. You can also take the ugly SX-1, which doesn't really look beatiful or integrated. Look up the prices for both. If you don't already own one this is money wasted. And then check the prices for A1200 expansion. Much more bang for the buck. Last edited by Konrad; 27 December 2020 at 21:59. |
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OK, understood. But unfortunately not used by any game, AFAIK.
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You can attach an A4000 keyboard to the aux port on the CD32 IIRC, not to mention the uber rare cd32 branded keyboard.
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I mean CDXL and earok's work Blue thunder and Time Gal.
there interesting they never made proper use of it back in the day< |
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Indeed, many games just banged the hardware for CD32 pad support, just like most games banged the hardware for their graphics instead of using graphics.library. It's pretty trivial, and means that even ECS games with CD32 pad support can be played on an Amiga with any Kickstart / Workbench version. |
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