Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs326ag From: cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: CDTV & CD-I The Whole Picture Message-ID: <1991Apr18.071514.14778@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 18 Apr 91 07:15:14 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 38 In article roger_earl@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca (Roger Earl) writes: >There is a reason for the difference in price. It has a lot to do with the >OS that the two Machines are running. CDTV runs under AmigaDOS 1.3. CD-I >runs under OS9. Development systems, programmers, and experience are all >readily available and cheap for the Amiga. OS9 Development systems and >programmers are both hard to find and very expensive. There are actually >software houses that are already making applications for CDTV and perhaps >'porting' them over to CD-I if it does well. When development costs become >apparent maybe a lot of software companies will follow suit. As far as >games are concerned, virtually no programmers have experience writing games >under OS9. That is a rather amusing point! How many Amiga game programers have experience writing games under AmigaOS? Humm, most throw the OS away and beat on the bare hardware (Note, in this message I am not saying one way or another if this is right... :-). If you had said, ``game programers have more experience banging Amiga hardware over CD-I hardware,'' then I would agree... :-/ This does bring up an important point though (IMHO), Amiga hardware banging (to get max. performance from the machine) is a well understood, CD-I banging is not. This could help one find your conclusion. Hey, this also brings up another point! Can game designers (or others, for that matter) read the CD-ROM without the OS intact? If not (here's hoping... :-), then more games might be forced to run under the OS... Does anyone know how the CD file system works on the CDTV, I mean does it use the OS to a full extent like most SCSI controllers? >Roger Earl = Usenet: roger_earl@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca = GEnie: R.Earl4 Loren J. Rittle l-rittle@uiuc.edu -- ``The Amiga continues to amaze me--if I had not been told that this video was created using the Amiga and Toaster, I would not have believed it. Even Allen said, `I think I know how he did most of the effects.' '' - Jim Lange Loren J. Rittle l-rittle@uiuc.edu