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The CD32.
The Amiga story rounds out here... the CD³² was the very last system Commodore produced before going into bankruptcy in early 1994. Its direct predecessor, the Commodore CDTV (they didn't officially call that one an Amiga!) was technically an Amiga 500 with a 1x CD-ROM drive... the CD³² follows that lead and is technically an Amiga 1200 with a 2x CD-ROM drive as well as an extra custom chip, the Akiko chunky to planar chip.
The CD³² was released at the dawn of the CD-based console era, going up against consoles like the Sega Mega-CD. Even then, it was somewhat outgunned but initial sales were looking like it could go alright. Software was theoretically pretty straight forward to create as it was essentially just a 1200 with the extra C2P hardware if you wanted it and CD audio as an option.
Reality of course didn't work like that... Commodore had owed royalty money that they couldn't pay and a federal judge ordered an injunction that prevented them importing into the US preventing that market even seeing the thing. A limited quantity did make it to market in PAL regions and although it allegedly was doing well, there wasn't supply to keep that up and in the end only around 125,000 were ever sold.
The CD³² lived out its days treated like the bastard redhaired stepchild, not quite a full Amiga 1200 (no keyboard or floppy drive hurt at the time) but not quite a game console. Expensive expansion options did exist but they're almost more scarce than the system itself. That is, until the relatively recent release of cost effective expansions thanks to Stephen Leary aka TerribleFire.
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Motorola 68EC020 @
14MHz 2MB Chip RAM, 8MB
Fast RAM 8GB PATA DOM 2x CD-ROM drive Amiga AGA chipset Amiga AGA 'Akiko'
C2P Kickstart 3.1,
AmigaOS 3.5 OSSC v1.6 scan
converterA game console? With an expansion port? And things you can put in it?!
This example has been gone through, recapped and cleaned up. It's fitted with a TerribleFire TF328 expansion card, adding 8MB RAM and an ATA controller, based on the Gayle chip found in the Amiga 600 and 1200. The riser card for the expansion also includes a proper RGB output like the real Amigas allowing the use of the scan converter and a PS/2 keyboard connection.
Mine is set up next to my main PC connected through my capture device for streaming and the SSD has AmigaOS 3.5 with WHDLoad and TinyLauncher, allowing easy access to virtually every Amiga game ever made. This is 100% the most loungeroom-compatible Amiga available.
I've owned this CD32 for about twelve years, and own two others, although the other two are both very much dead. It hasn't seen too much use until the TF328 came along, now it gets used more than my other Amigas combined due to its convenience.
The next big step is to upgrade to either a TF330 for similar performance to my 1200 or if I have a big enough windfall, a TF360 giving it a full 68060 with plenty of RAM, meaning it would be indeed faster than my 1200 and capable of running late Amiga titles including Quake. Quake! On an early 90s gaming console! Yes please!