AMIGA CD32

IT WAS COMMODORE’S FINAL HARDWARE DESIGN BEFORE THE COMPANY WENT BELLY UP AND IS ONE OF THE MOST DERIDED AMIGAS OF ALL TIME BUT IS THE CD32’S TERRIBLE REPUTATION SO DESERVED? ASHLEY DAY ARGUES THE CASE FOR HISTORY’S MOST MISUNDERSTOOD CONSOLE

Backwards compatible? Oh yes. The beauty of the Amiga hardware under the hood of the CD32 meant that it was compatible with all previous Amiga software. Okay, there weren’t many previous Amiga games on compact disc except, of course, for the CDTV, which the CD32 was 100 per cent compatible with. Although Commodore’s previous CD-based console had played host to mostly dull edutainment titles, there were a couple of games worth holding on to. Old Amiga favourites Sim City and Lemmings were available and worked perfectly on a CD32 with an Amiga mouse. The best CDTV game, however, was The Case Of The Cautious Condor, a little-known adventure game, in which the player had 30 minutes to solve a murder by exploring a hand-drawn comic book world and eavesdropping on…

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