Amiga CD32 Dual Review! The TerribleFire TF330 & Amiga Game Selector
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- Опубліковано 5 січ 2024
- This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast @10MARC I am reviewing the TerribleFire TF330 Accelerator and AGS (Amiga Game Selector) for the awesome Amiga CD32.
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I love the Terriblefire cards! Excellent capabilities and 1990's appropriate hardware and very similar to accelerators you would find advertised in the various magazines of the day.
For sure. I have owned several and have enjoyed them all.
Another great Video Doug 👍🏻 I’ve got a CD32 that I bought a couple of years ago. Got a few CD32 CD games due to a few of them having extras that the CD32 titles provide. Such as Digital soundtracks (Pinball fantasises for example) and talkie tracks (Simon the Sorcerer for example). One thing you didn’t show in your video, is how you choose between the TF and Native CD32 using the CD drive. Apart from that, thanks for taking time to put this out 👍🏻🙏🏻 Oh, I also believe there is now a TF3060 now available for the CD32 (68060 version) 😉
I probably did gloss over the fact that it will still boot CD32 games. I know I meant to mention it... But this one was without a written script so I probably missed it. Depending on my mood, I either write a full script or just wing it.
@@10MARC Well you did good by carrying on with the background noise 👍🏻
Informative!
Shared.
Much obliged!
AGS is just awesome, I've got it on my CD32 with a TF328.
If you have a Steak Deck with Emudeck installed you can also run the RHW version of AGS on your Deck. Total game changer!
Oh Steak Deck! Yummy! ;) I have heard fantastic things about Steams little handheld. Good to know it can run out favorite OS!
@@10MARC I'm gonna just leave that typo there in all it's glory. 😂
Great video on AGS, Terrible Fire TF330s, and deployment. I just finished restoring 3 CD32s and put a TF330 in two and the TF360 in the other. The TF360 is amazingly compatible and insanely fast, even with an LC 060. With the latest firmware, the TF360 can now be disabled to run CD32 CDROMS without pulling the accelerator. The disable jumper/switch header does not work on the TF330 (Until Stephen has time to fix the firmware That man is a legend but he runs himself ragid), which means you can't run many games because of their lack of support for other CPUs (most of these games are in AGS and run great as you are likely aware. Some games will work, but most will not run properly or crash out entirely. I'll have to see if I can get 3.2 or better to run on a CD32 now that you had to go and pose the question..lol! Regards
So the TF360 is shipping? I thought that was still in development. Sounds like you have an awesome setup!
Fantastic review of the CD32! Cool to see what can be done with it 🥰❤️🙏
Thanks so much! It really is a fun console
@@10MARC You're welcome Douglas. It sure is 🥰 ❤️ 🙏
Thanks for this, highly appreciated!
Happy to do it! More to come on the CD32!
Thank you, Doug!! I’m excited to set up that Amiga Game Selector now after seeing your video! (Another great use for my RPi 400!)
Also, so sorry to drop this here, but I need to contact you about the Amiga 2000 keyboard that we spoke about at VCF on 2/17. Please reach out when you can.
Thanks, Doug! Was great meeting you and really appreciate your channel and the setup you had at VCF!
You bet. My email contact info is on the "About" section of my UA-cam channel, and you can also reach me on any of the social networks.
Doug never disappoints!
My wife might disagree!
Still amazed at the game play.
It is neat, eh?
Great video as always. Amiga game selector looks sweet. I may need to get that installed. Always good to CD32 get some love.
I liked the video and I don't even feel like I lied!
Thanks! I just really started using AGS last month. It is a nice product for sure.
Great video! I've had a TF330 in my CD32 for a few years now and it's a wonderful machine for it.
Stephen's cards great and that's why I also got a TF1260 for my A1200 too. PiStorms are great but sometimes you just want a more era-appropriate experience.
Agreed. The TerribleFire boards are quite nice. I owned a TF 1260 for a while. Nice card!
Ok 😢wow this is blowing my mind …. I had the same CD32 NTSC setup with a TF330- and was so very frustrated by lack of PAL support (even on boot select PAL, it didn’t output well at all on composite). HAD I KNOWN about the RGB out passing PAL I wouldn’t had sold it over a year ago!
Oh for sure! Composite and S-Video are harder to deal with unless you have a TV that directly supports PAL, and the PAL to NTSC converters are useless. RGB works great, though! I can easily change that signal, too.
I really enjoyed this one. I bought a TF 328 back in 2018 I believe for my PAL CD32. Basically has what's here except for the accelerator! I wish I had the 330. This makes me want to upgrade.
It's worth it for some of the games, and of you want to use it as a full computer, it is totally worth it!
Nice video Doug! I have the TF328 and my riser has the ps2 adapter on it. Tim sent me my system so it's PAL and works VERY well. It's my favorite gaming console of them all. I went and grabbed an adapter that allow me to use a ps2 controller and there's a special CD32 mode.
Oh very nice! Send me the info on the adapter that lets you use a PS/2 controller! That sounds awesome!
My CD32 has been rock solid so far!
hey doug, great video, as always :) I use OS 3.2.1 on my cd32. i installed os3.1 first, then 3.1.4 then 3.2. and then 3.2.1 - kickrom is OS3.1 all the time.
I did the installation on the pc with winuae. It worked wonderfully.
And everything works? |Boots to CD Audio and everything??? That is great news!
After 14 you bought everything, come oooooooooon ;-)
It's true! I had a pile of Commodore 64 disks that were pirated - dozens of them (and I still have them) - then in 1984 I started thinking about the fact that it was stealing, and stopped doing it. I bought several C64 games after that (the very last one was "The Pawn") and on my Amiga I never pirated a single piece of software. Games, applications... All purchased. During my PC gaming years I bought everything, too.
There are not many of us out there, but we do exist!
Any option to download Amiga Game Selector for folks without Fakebook?
I can send you a Torrent link I suppose. I think he wants to keep it controlled to prevent people from trying to sell it. Hit me up on Twitter or via email.
Doug, also for the keyboard; you can use an Amiga 2000 keyboard with a regular 5 pin din to smaller or PS2 adapter and it works perfectly.
Love your video. I have an SX1 and it is great but of course because it sticks out at the back of the CD32 it makes it look ugly but it works.
Wait.. what? A traditional 5 Pin DIN to PS/2 adapter, and then an A2000 keyboard works? I did not think the PS/2 connector fit into the A4000/CD32 keyboard connector! I need to check that out
@10MARC That is all I used. When I got the SX1 I needed a keyboard so I could use it like an A1200. I examined the keyboard socket on the so I went to a local PC shop and bought a small adapter with the larger female 5 pin Din on 1 end and the smaller PS/2 male 5 pin din on the other. I was not sure it would work but when I plugged it in it worked perfectly, right up to when I packed the CD32 and SX1 away. Remember that the adapter is just a pass through, but it obviously has the correct wires connected. I did not use the AT Keyboard socket at the back of the SX1.
I love my CD32 with TF330. I know there's 060 version of TF but I've been wondering if it would strain my CD32 too much. PSU and other parts might even give up after some time. TF330 has been so good that I don't really miss the ultimate power of 060 in my AGA machine.
I think the 060 is better utilized in an A1200 or other machine. Mainly because it still lacks serial, parallel, floppy, etc... I just have mine as a games machine, and lots of stuff is incompatible with the 060
Hi Doug. Very nice Review like always.👍 Last week i repaired my CD32 and now i test it. I maked also a Main ROM CD32 47.111 together with EXT 40.60 and it looks thats working. I use the latest HSTWB + CWB with it. I would like to test also Amiga Game Selector, but i'm not a facebook member. I readed some messages bottom and you wrote, that you can send a torrent of AGS. It is possible ? AmigaCD32 is very good mashine.
I have a link I will put in the description right now.
Hi @@10MARC .Thank you for the links. I was on these sites, but i though, that it is some special version for CD32. For A500mini i had already downloaded and now i download for AGA yet. Thank you and keep on with your superb AMIGA reviews and videos :)
AGS 2.51 is working very good on AmigaCD32 with my new custom ROM 47.111 . thx
I got a 3.2 Rom to Work with the CD32 and the TF330. I Used the 3.2 Rom provided by Hyperion and replaced the SCSI.device inside the Rom with the A1200 SCSI.device from OS 3.1.4. With that change, everything works fine. I can boot CDs and from the CF Card
Oh? So the 3.1.4 base ROMS function? That's good to know. I wonder if using a real 3.1.4 ROM and then using that for a 3.2 install works?
@@10MARCthere is no offical 3.1.4 for the CD32. I just used the SCSI.device from the 3.1.4 A1200 Rom (Or the A1200 Modules Disk) and replaced the scsi.device from the CD32 3.2 rom with the version from 3.1.4 thats all. Then it will work
Thanks for the video! Having trouble making out what you used for the vga adapter, thx-
Edu Arana makes one - I will put a link in the description for his website and for the one available from AmigaKit. Just understand your VGA monitor needs to support 15 Khz. There are quite a few that do. I will link to a list of those, too.
I'm only a few seconds into this, but isn't it 166, as there wasn't an episode 100? Or did I miss it?
Good catch, actually. Episode 100 is still planned.... someday!
How is MegaAGS different from AGS? Is it only for download on the FB-group? Thanks for the great video mister! Amiga RuLeZ!
Hmmmm... Not sure, really. I do have a link for the direct download - I will put it in the description tonight
Hi @@10MARC , did you forget to put the direct download link for the AGS image in the description? Or am I overlooking it?
Thanks Doug!
When I got my TF330 it was only available with 64MB RAM.
Probably enough for most purposes, but 128 MB sure is nice!
@@10MARC Would have been nice for playing around with NetBSD but otherwise 64MB is plenty for me.
Hi Doug, I've got an amiga 500 with an aca500plus. I've downloaded the ags image file and written it to a cf card but can't get it to boot in the aca. Can you help? Enjoy your vids btw
Sure. Hit me up via email or on one of my Social Media accounts. Douglas (at) dctechaz (dot) com
Thanks Doug, have emailed you.
Can you tell me how to install this on my retropie? I have the latest 4.8 of the lr-puae and lr-puae 2O21 emulators. You can emulate amiga 500 to amiga cd 32s. It uses iso cd32 files, adf’s, Lha’s. For now , all I want is to play TotalChaosAGA from the AGS. That’s it. However, I have tried so many variations of the AGS and non work. It either does not with this emulator or my setup is lacking. Thanks for the video, btw.
Too bad this AGS or just the TotalChaosAGA game don’t come as iso’s For the cd32
I am not familiar with IR-Puae. I use Amiberry on the Linux Distro on my Raspberry Pi's. AGS is just a disk image, but it is meant to be a bootable disk image. You should be able to use the .img file as the main boot file as long as your emulator supports it. If it has naming restrictions (.hda etc...) you can rename the file.
@@10MARC ADF, ADZ, IPF, DMS, FDI for floppy disk images
ISO, CUE, CCD, NRG, MDS, CHD for compact disc images
HDF, HDZ, LHA for hard drive images
for the life of me I can't download any of these files. Joined the group , clicked download (using Brave) and at 63.5% (always) it stops. I have downloaded .rar files in the past and unpacked etc with no problems. Something silly or stupid on my part?
Hit me up via email. I will get you sorted out
How legal is AGS anyway, since it seems to be available for free and redistributing WB 3.1, for which Cloanto still own the copyright?
You have an excellent point, really. From what I understand, it is Kickstart that cannot be distributed, but the OS can be. Maybe since the OS is useless without Kickstart. Every emulator has the same disclaimers that you must provide your own ROMS.
@@10MARCWell yeah, Cloanto are known for being rather upset whenever someone offers the Kickstart ROMs for free download, but I believe they have also been really upset at Hyperion when 3.1.4 was released, to the point of filing lawsuits, since they own WB 1.X all the way to 3.1? Could be remembering that wrong, but I am pretty confident in thinking that Workbench 3.1 is not freeware. Given how bitter and angry the fighting over the remains of Commodore have been over the past nearly 30 years, I don't see how anyone who purchased the rights to it would ever let it be free for redistribution.
If the guys behind AGS really want to avoid copyright issues, maybe they could look into using an alternative to Workbench such as AROS 68k which actually has a public license. Getting WHDLoad to work on AROS 68k may be tricky, but everyone knows that the community loves a challenge.
12:30 you have forgotten the most important option to have a keyboard on a CD32 ?.... also is the cheapest solution and the very old school solution ,YOU CAN CONNECT ANY AMIGA 500 KEYBOARD, , the signals in that din connector are the same as the signals on A500 keyboard pin header connector to the motherboard .....so use your imagination and try to think about how are the oldschool solutions back in the day with no internet , no aliexpress , no monney, living outside that richest countries like uk or usa ..... the need and the lack of resources become into that solutions , ideas and solutions become fanzines..... Only the Amiga makes it possible !!
I suppose the correct adapter an a500 keyboard would work fine on a CD32, but having that raw keyboard just sitting on a desk would be awkward! Cool idea though!