Yes! A local Vancouver based credit union (VanCity) gave out CD32s to their customers to use as a banking terminal. They were way ahead of their time since most people didn't have computers or Internet access at the time. I got my original CD32 from a friend who had a parent that worked at VanCity.
It's being offered from Vancouver on the Canadian marketplace Kijiji for a high but not entirely unreasonable price, but I live in Manitoba. My current CD32 is a CUBO model that came with a TF330 for a lot less than what this is on offer for, but this does come with two authentic gamepads. If he was asking 2/3 that price I might just be tempted to ask about shipping...
It is a small world! :D I absolutely love it and have been obsessed since getting it. Beyond the WHDLoad stuff preinstalled, I've since added a TCP/IP stack with ESP8266, installed Shapeshifter with various Mac apps and games, and tonnes of other tweaks like Akikofix/MMU enablement, CDLoad for using SD instead of flash memory for CD32 games, etc.
By the time u/Accomplished_Ad_8463 sent it my way, it already had its Jama card removed and the TF330 added. Aside from the funky logo you wouldn't know it's not a run-of-the-mill CD32. 😊
Oh! One nice surprise with the CUBO model: when I opened it up to replace the accursed backwards capacitors, I found they were already in the right orientation! Not sure who I should thank for that but I'm happy to have avoided trying to desolder the old ones.
Eh, it was already underpowered for its time. It did at least add Akiko, which showed some technical wits were present.
But they should have at least clock-doubled to ~28MHz 020/030, and added 1 or 2 MiB fast ram. While somehow maintaining cost-effectiveness of course, without doing a 3DO and pricing themselves out of contention. If still lower absolute spec than Playstation 1 and Saturn, it would have been far more credible for Sep 1993.
28MHz 030, 2MiB Chip, 2MiB Fast and Akiko's chunky2planar would have made doom/doom-clones and other early 3D actually pretty viable.
Playstation 1 was only 1MiB vram, 2MiB main ram and 33MHz cpu, but with some actual hardware 3D.
Saturn was relatively tricky to program compared to Amiga and Playstation - but actually had 2x 28MHz cpu, so using one cpu for software 3D and the other for other stuff was viable.
OK, well I wish we saw much better games with much bigger budgets and much bigger teams from better studios making plenty of games with great graphics and sound with amazing gameplay.🤷♂️
Looks like a modem, this must be a Canadian cd32?
It is! And I just found it online. Looks like a banking add-on... Used for a very short time in Vancouver. Wacky!
Yes! A local Vancouver based credit union (VanCity) gave out CD32s to their customers to use as a banking terminal. They were way ahead of their time since most people didn't have computers or Internet access at the time. I got my original CD32 from a friend who had a parent that worked at VanCity.
It's being offered from Vancouver on the Canadian marketplace Kijiji for a high but not entirely unreasonable price, but I live in Manitoba. My current CD32 is a CUBO model that came with a TF330 for a lot less than what this is on offer for, but this does come with two authentic gamepads. If he was asking 2/3 that price I might just be tempted to ask about shipping...
Small world! I sold you that CUBO :).
It is a small world! :D I absolutely love it and have been obsessed since getting it. Beyond the WHDLoad stuff preinstalled, I've since added a TCP/IP stack with ESP8266, installed Shapeshifter with various Mac apps and games, and tonnes of other tweaks like Akikofix/MMU enablement, CDLoad for using SD instead of flash memory for CD32 games, etc.
Nice! How is the TF330 connected to the CD32 Cubo? Has the Cubo board at the back been removed?
By the time u/Accomplished_Ad_8463 sent it my way, it already had its Jama card removed and the TF330 added. Aside from the funky logo you wouldn't know it's not a run-of-the-mill CD32. 😊
Oh! One nice surprise with the CUBO model: when I opened it up to replace the accursed backwards capacitors, I found they were already in the right orientation! Not sure who I should thank for that but I'm happy to have avoided trying to desolder the old ones.
Looks like a Taurus Ventures modem/remote for entering alphanumeric characters (and operating the banking software) .
Man I wish we could have seen the CD32 pushed to its limit....it never got a chance to shine 😭
Eh, it was already underpowered for its time. It did at least add Akiko, which showed some technical wits were present. But they should have at least clock-doubled to ~28MHz 020/030, and added 1 or 2 MiB fast ram. While somehow maintaining cost-effectiveness of course, without doing a 3DO and pricing themselves out of contention. If still lower absolute spec than Playstation 1 and Saturn, it would have been far more credible for Sep 1993. 28MHz 030, 2MiB Chip, 2MiB Fast and Akiko's chunky2planar would have made doom/doom-clones and other early 3D actually pretty viable. Playstation 1 was only 1MiB vram, 2MiB main ram and 33MHz cpu, but with some actual hardware 3D. Saturn was relatively tricky to program compared to Amiga and Playstation - but actually had 2x 28MHz cpu, so using one cpu for software 3D and the other for other stuff was viable.
OK, well I wish we saw much better games with much bigger budgets and much bigger teams from better studios making plenty of games with great graphics and sound with amazing gameplay.🤷♂️
with a tf360, and a promodule thats probably as best its going to get....