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From: leeg@mcrware.UUCP (Lee Glenn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Want CDTV info. (here it is!)
Message-ID: <5012@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 91 15:53:00 GMT
References: <1991Feb10.103752.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> <91041.163331AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu> <1991Feb11.073451.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> <91042.092843AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Reply-To: leeg@mcrware.UUCP (Lee Glenn)
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In article <91042.092843AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu> AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>
>     Mark, CDTV is a format.  It should not require an Amiga to drive it.
> Most likely, if commodore licences the technology, makers will produce
> CDTV with other computers to drive it.  Note, I am assuming this because
> you can purchase a CDTV compatable CD-ROM player for your Amiga now.  If
> I wrong someone who knows correct me.
>                                                     Ajai

Well, yes and no.  CDTV IS a format, but it requires what is essentially
an Amiga to drive it.  At least this is what I gather from the print media.

An analogy:  Atari ST's and IBM PC's have (had?) the same floppy disk format.
While it was possible to read data from disks made from either machine, it
was not possible to run programs, since the respective CPU's and related
hardware shared very little in common.

-Lee