Analogic Floppy Disk Drive for the Amiga CD32

[Puni/Void]

Hi folks,

Does anyone have any experience with the Analogic Floppy Disk Drive for the Amiga CD32?

I've seen a photo of the unit and it features two ports where you can connect something. What are they useful for?

Are there any expansions for this hardware?

Thanks in advance for your help. I'm considering getting one.

 

[moijk]

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?amiga=cd32#fwsi

• designed specifically for the Wall Street Institute language school
• during the language course students attended computer based training on CD32s with fWSI
• the CD contained the multimedia training software, while the fWSI floppy drive allowed the students to save their progress
• 3.5" 1.44 MB floppy drive
• DB25 parallel port
• DB15 VGA port
• battery backed up clock
• plugs into the rear expansion port

I would guess expansion possibilities would be to for example replace the drive with an HxC floppy emulator and paint the whole thing matte black to make it match the cd32.

Hi folks,

Does anyone have any experience with the Analogic Floppy Disk Drive for the Amiga CD32?

I've seen a photo of the unit and it features two ports where you can connect something. What are they useful for?

Are there any expansions for this hardware?

Thanks in advance for your help. I'm considering getting one.

 

[Puni/Void]

Thanks for the info, mate.

It's interesting that it contains a VGA port. Anyone tried it?

Nice suggestions.

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?amiga=cd32#fwsi

• designed specifically for the Wall Street Institute language school
• during the language course students attended computer based training on CD32s with fWSI
• the CD contained the multimedia training software, while the fWSI floppy drive allowed the students to save their progress
• 3.5" 1.44 MB floppy drive
• DB25 parallel port
• DB15 VGA port
• battery backed up clock
• plugs into the rear expansion port

I would guess expansion possibilities would be to for example replace the drive with an HxC floppy emulator and paint the whole thing matte black to make it match the cd32.

Hi folks,

Does anyone have any experience with the Analogic Floppy Disk Drive for the Amiga CD32?

I've seen a photo of the unit and it features two ports where you can connect something. What are they useful for?

Are there any expansions for this hardware?

Thanks in advance for your help. I'm considering getting one.

 

[moijk]

Thanks for the info, mate.

It's interesting that it contains a VGA port. Anyone tried it?

I think it only passes the rgb of the amiga. and they have fitted a strange db15 connector. just look at the pics, so you need to make your own cable or buy one already made. it is not the d-sub you normally see.

 

[Tahoe]

Moijk is right, it's not a VGA port but a 15 pin d-sub RGB port. The original cables supplied with these drives went from 15 pin d-sub to SCART.

 

[Harrison]

Interesting looking device.

If it was specifically designed for one application, does it also work as a standard drive? And how does the CD32 see it? DF0:, DF1: or something else? Can it be booted from the drive?

 

[Gouldin]

IIRC after emailing analogic ages ago about it. It's just seen as df0: so you boot from floppy as cd32 kick is just 3.1 with extra stuff added.

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[bebek]

Bought one fromAmibay a few weeks ago but had no time to test it yet :dry: , it is big and ugly

 

[queenfan]

getting this in the mail soon.
The amilogic fd drive.

What can you fellas tell me about that 15pin DSUB RGB port?
Will it map to VGA?

Also, what about using a 3 button 9pin pc mouse on the CD32? I haven't been able to get into the CD32 menu with it yet to switch to PAL.

 

[supaduper]

I have one its I also added a keyboard using the excellent Lyra 2 by Jens and a mouse in port 2.
Basically its now just a standard A1200 with no HDrive. But I boot up with WB and can acess the CDO: as normal.

Default is the same and will boot from DFO: first if boot disk is detected.
The ports on it to be honest I will not use,the RGB passthrough is ok but you have three options already on the CD32 !
And the other is a LTP printer port.
Personally I love it can now use a CDrom based A1200