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From: cg108fgj@ICOGSCI1.UCSD.EDU (Dennis Lou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: CDTV misleading???!? Air Mouse and things.
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Date: 5 Jun 91 04:19:21 GMT
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In article <1991Jun5.002829.22492@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>,
es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
|>In article <1991Jun4.204135.17497@cs.wayne.edu>
jal@athena.cs.wayne.edu (Jason Leigh) writes:
|>>I was at the Chicago CES yesterday and I spoke to Commodore about CDTV.
|>>The representative told me that if I bought a CDROM drive for my
|>>Amiga I still could not run CDTV software.  CDTV is not just a 500 with
|>>a CD player.  There is evidently additional hardware to improve its
|>>sound capabilities (of course).
|>>
|>	Most current CDTV programs do run on Amigas with a Xetec
|>drive. However, that is more expensive than CDTV and will not
|>likely work with all future software as more and more of it take
|>advantage of whatever is taking up that extra 256K in the ROMs.
|>

What about a Xetec controller with a third party CDROM drive?

I already have a FastTrack and getting a cheap SCSI CDROM drive 
should be no problem which translates to a $250 upgrade to my 
existing system...


                                                                     
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