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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: CDTV vs CD-I again (long)
Message-ID: <1085@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 91 06:22:06 GMT
References: <1991Apr8.085845.24662@ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1991Apr8.085845.24662@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
>
>> The advantage that CDTV has is that it is an Amiga. It has the whole
>> library of Amiga software if you add a diskdrive. 
>
>  Yes, I've said many times that this is a slight advantage IF it allows
>CDTV titles to be more easily created.  So far that's not very clear.

Oh, developers already received long ago the guidelines how to make up
a normal Amiga for a CDTV development platform. It's easy.

>But they might care that CDTV is incompatible with all other players.

The CDTV is NOT "incompatible with all other players". It's one of
the plusses of AmigaOS that you can use various file systems. So the
CDTV CAN read HighSierra AND ISO9660 (or what was the number). And as
CD-I runs also on 680x0, perhaps someone succedes to do an emulator
of a CD-I system? (Ok, sounds difficult, as they also have many custom
chips, but who knows.) And perhaps someone also ports IBeM, the new
PC emulator, to the CDTV and then we can use all the PC CD-ROMs. Or
how about AMAX on the CDTV and running Mac CD-ROMs? I think you get
the picture: Amiga is the world champion of emulations, and so is
CDTV (or will be).

>  Yet the major sticking point to me still is: it would make more sense
>to buy an Amiga and add a CDROM drive, than to buy a CDTV and then add
>on the disk drive, keyboard, mouse, etc... if expansion is your plan.

Yes, all possible in the future, I believe. But sure much more expensive
than a plain CDTV plus perhaps a disk drive and a keyboard. 
Hmm, let's see... :-)

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