Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!santra!nntp!ppessi From: ppessi@vipunen.hut.fi (Pekka Pessi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia Subject: Re: Multimedia on CNN Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 91 16:39:23 GMT References: <%YY-8#%@irie.ais.org> <1991Mar19.222832.23744@news.iastate.edu> <1991Mar20.034149.15840@evax.arl.utexas.edu> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu's message of 20 Mar 91 03:41:49 GMT In article <1991Mar20.034149.15840@evax.arl.utexas.edu> hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Adam Hill) writes: > The one in Amazing looks A LOT like a 590 with a CDROM! *Most* CDTV >games will work on a 500 with CBM CDROM or a Xetec. You actually have >to try it as I have NO idea what would cause one NOT to work. The >New Hertiage Dictionary boots into a 1.3 CLI, one of the ways to >inhibit CD boot is to attach an external floppy drive. (Who's pinout >is just SLIGHTLY different than a "normal" floppy expansion :-) But >one can build an adapter.. CBM shipped one to developers.) I played today with a CDTV system, and its floppy disk, serial port and parallel port expansion worked just like in an A500 (well, first external floppy is DF0:). However, it was a beta release PAL device. Keyboard and joustick plugs are quite different from A2000, so I used AUX: and cordless mouse. ;) -- Pekka Pessi / ppessi@niksula.hut.fi