27 December 2020, 23:44 | #261 |
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err no it's not trivial to properly read CD32 buttons. In fact, lowlevel library fails to do it properly on some A1200 motherboards because of a timing issue. And all custom code to read joypads fail when a standard joystick (2 button) is used.
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Actually, you can.
Both mouse and keyboard. As Skan say, I even think there was some official keyboards for that... not sure. How I remember this? Well, back in the day, when I was desperate to have the Amiga, but didn't had enough money, one of the options I thought was to purchase first CD32 (that was cheaper then A1200), and after some time, to just purchase keyboard and mouse. I remember magazines that had ads where people were doing these hack's for Cd32. |
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I've never seen a single TV with an s-video port on it in - imo this was not a common standard on tv's in the UK at any time. RGB scart on the other hand was and it was either abolute incompetence or utter cheapness that they did not put it on the CD32.
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going totally! off topic
I wonder why at this point why Commodore weren't thinking about PPC instead of 68k processors. I also wonder maybe farfetched, the CD drive was Sony and if Sony decided to take a look at what there drive was being used for and thought ok this machine is nothing much but now there is a new PPC for this Amiga computer and this is powerful and if they got any ideas for there own machine. |
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These days your just stuck with composite on a jack, as an alternative. My current LG 42" does have all inputs including S-Video. Maybe you didn't see them, as alot stuck them on the front, under the flap. As they used more for camcorders. Sent from my I3113 using Tapatalk |
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Wiki say 68060 processor was released in 1994, and CD32 in 1993. They couldn't even implement fastest 68k processor in it. However, if they implemented 040 (for some reasonable price (in cooperation with Motorola)), and some custom chips to help on 3D and texturing, it could probably easily compete with Playstation, and even beat it. Imagine that power man... few games that utilize it's power, and it would be sold in tens of millions.... it would become Playstation before Playstation... Commodore... Commodore... |
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yet by 1994 Mac had ported its whole OS to PPC with 68k emulation.
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Agree, imagine that now with only a 68030 and 64 mo ram I can emulate Alone in the Dark that was a killer app in 1992, it run slowly but playable under Mac emulation so if used directly hardware it would be possible only with original graphic, the 3D used was not far from hunter. Virtua GP in 1999 only in aga was very impressed for his time, 3D textured without add-on card ! only talented programmer
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Or you confuse it with Panasonic 3DO?
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...but that's true anyway: RJ Mical and Dave Needle designed both the Handy (aka Atari Lynx) and the HW/SW tech behind 3DO... Regarding all these "what if" scenarios... If CBM didn't go belly up we would have had both a Hombre-based CD64 (or whatever) and a Hombre module for CD32 as well...and I bet that would have been a full Hombre board genlocked internally just like the FMV module, using the CD32 just kinda like a Vampire uses the underlying Amiga. Ah, what if... |
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Dude you write far too much for me to answer and you troll a lot but I will answer your less incendiary questions I did a bit of thinking about the CD32 and look the AUX port - has input/output - therefore easy to connect a storage device to this to save games. Why are people saying it's so hard/expensive? The ZX Spectrum could play cartridge games this way. Make the device and developers will use it! (maybe they could even release a new version of Theme Park especially for you to play. although I still think you would be unhappy) https://old.pinouts.ru/InputCables/K...2_pinout.shtml Lets be honest - Frontier is just shovel-ware. They didn't even enhance it much for the CD-32 hardware. CD32 is capable of much more. For Theme Park you would need the extra storage space provided by an expansion (via AUX) - just like you need a memory card for playstation - in fact I had about 10 when I owned a Playstation. I think the fact you use Theme Park as an example of why the CD32 is not great - shows desperation. Why not mention every amazing game on the CD32 instead? I didn't get offended about the Akiko guy. I can't even remember him or what he said apart from that. I just replied to that guy - there is no 3D processing chip but Akiko is used in 3D processing so I knew he was talking about that. Why do I even have to answer that? Also having 32-bit written on the console really advertises how it the first ever 32 bit CD system in the West and it's superiority to the 16 bit consoles and all previous Amigas (althought they are good too guys!). It's a beautiful thing |
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Yes that's right - the CD32 was purely an enhanced A1200. They didn't want to implement a better CPU. They had already planned the A1200 CD32 card to improve that machine (A1200) to CD32 level. They wanted the combined installed base and for developers to have the biggest audience possible for their games |
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