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[davidcalgary29]

Following a thread from the previous topic...

Has anyone ever created a "home-made" Jaguar CD unit?

[Thunderbird]

davidcalgary29 said:

Following a thread from the previous topic...

Has anyone ever created a "home-made" Jaguar CD unit?

I know people have salvaged drive mechanisms from other products with the same model drive and repaired broken CD units. I highly doubt that anyone could have made a homemade CD unit because the BUTCH chip is too complex for anyone to produce at home.

[LinkoVitch]

What does the Butch chip do (Besides team up with Tom and give Jerry grief? )

[Thunderbird]

LinkoVitch said:

What does the Butch chip do (Besides team up with Tom and give Jerry grief? )

Butch is a VLSI chip which controls the CD drive, and sends all data between the Jag and the CD. It maps all the registers of the CD unit used by the BIOS and passes the cartridge signals from the cart slot to the base unit. It also maps in the CD BIOS and reads the door and motor sensors.

It's not something you will cook up at home.

[LinkoVitch]

just wondered as I had never heard of it before, not heard much about the CD unit's.

I guess with enough time effort, free time you could make one with FPGA unit. But it would take some time and money to do...

But there is a way