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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: CDTV vs CD-I again
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Date: 10 Apr 91 00:53:53 GMT
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In article <1991Apr9.215548.25980@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes:
>
>   You can, at least, run anything on the CDTV that you can run on 
>an Amiga 500 with AmigaOS 1.3.
>
>   This brings up an interesting question.  The CDTV apparently does 
>not use the actual 1.3 ROMs, but modified 1.3 ROMs with the extra code
>to support the CD-ROM drive.  If this is true, how could one go about
>upgrading the CDTV to AmigaOS 2.0?
>
>   The ROMs for 2.0 might not include the extra code that is in the
>CDTV ROMs, and thus putting the 2.0 ROMs straight into a CDTV might
>either cause it to not work at all or cause the CD-ROM drive to be
>inaccessible.  
>
	As far as I know 2.0 is not yet being worked on for CDTV,
but then I don't know what happens behind closed doors. As of
now, CDTV is a modified 1.3, but the ROMs are 512K. So there are
extensions in ROM which make me fear it'll be a hard transition.

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	-- Ethan

Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb
A: None. It's a hardware problem.