Their second attempt was a more successful and aimed directly at the games and movie market. It even bore a resemblance to the PC-Rom and the Megadrive though ironically the later only looked like it contained a CD drive.

This was the CD32 centred around their base model with a 68020 chip in it. Expectations were very high as the 68000 chip they had previously used had delivered PC breaking performace at just 8MHz.

• A manual ejectable top loading CD drive
• A reset button
• Power on LED
• CD access LED
• Headphone volume slider
• 3.5mm stereo headphone socket

• Unscrewable panel for the FMV card
• On/Off switch
• DIN power socket
• RF tunning screw
• Switchable frequency 6.0MHz (UK) 5.5MHz Other Countries
• RF output phono
• S-VHS socket
• Composite Video Out phono
• Right audio phono
• Left audio phono

• Game controller 1 socket
• Game controller 2 socket
• Auxiliary (keyboard)

CD support on the Amiga machines was slow and you could network the CD32 via the auxiliary socket to your main machine - to read the CDs. I won't embarrass you with the data rate it could achieve

• 8 way joypad
• Central pause button
• Four coloured fire buttons
• 2 front facing flipper buttons

This machine played all the CD Rom standards at the time. Including the MPEG 1 Video CDs with the help of the FMV card. With UK TV going digital with SKY on 1st October MPEG2 decoders are now set to become common place.

The competition included 2 launches of the Philips CDI system. But the CD32 had the whole back catalogue of Amiga games of which not even the consoles could compete with. It has taken the Sony Playstation to fulfil the design and market potential of the CD32's original design.

The CD32 is the only machine Delta Estuary owns that can play the [CD+Graphics] format. This is lucky cos we have one those releases in [Lou Reed - New York].