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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,bit.listserv.i-amiga
Subject: Re: Want CD/TV info.
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Date: 10 Feb 91 06:32:16 GMT
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Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
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In article <27B3C0D5.1642@orion.oac.uci.edu> easu052@orion.oac.uci.edu (Thu Ra Tin) writes:
>I would like to know what I have to do to become a developer for CDTV
>applications.  I have heard that CDTV uses its own interface.  Can I just
>write the whole thing on the Amiga then just ask C= to press the CDs.  Any
>info would be appreciated!!!

[BTW, please use newlines in your postings...]

	CDTV is based around 1.3 ROMs (currently), plus flash eeprom.  You can
press almost unmodified applications, but you probably want to a) take
advantage of that 650Mb of space (for gfx or sound - it can play CD sound
from the disk on request), b) modify the UI to handle the lack of a
keyboard (it's not required), use the extra buttons on the remote, etc, c)
make sure that if you need any disk access, things are laid out "right", and
d) possibly make use of the memory cards for saving data.

	However, with all that said, I'm told it's fairly easy to port things
over (I don't work on it myself).

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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Like a swift-flowing river
I wait in silence.  (From "The Zen of Programming")  ;-)