kolla Quote:

Adding hard drives and CD drives wasn’t the problem, but "noone" wanted a CD drive on their A1200 unless it was CD32 games compatible. So if there’s a screw-up to be pointing at, it’s the CD32 for not using gayle IDE in the first place. (But from what I understand, you prefer awkward nonstandard CD drives)

It's not that I prefer a nonstandard CD-ROM drive interface but if an audio CD-ROM drive was significantly cheaper, then it would have been compelling to use it. A standard IDE CD-ROM drive in the CD32 would be easier to upgrade and replace today but the audio drive worked fine and the price was important. A cheaper CD-ROM drive for low end Amigas would have been easier to make a standard. IDE and SCSI drives on higher end Amigas could have been compatible. The same drive interface is not required for compatibility.