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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: CDTV titles on an A500?
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.011109.4290@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 91 01:11:09 GMT
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In article <1991Jun3.060223.8266@cs.mcgill.ca>, tinyguy@cs.mcgill.ca (Yeo-Hoon BAE) writes:
>In article <1991Jun3.054319.10135@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>>
>>   How is this problem going to be solved?  Obviously there is a great
>>potential for CDTV software using some of the routines in this extra
>>256K, and any software that does so may not run on an Amiga with the
>>Commodore CD-ROM drive and will not run on Amiga with the Xetec CD-ROM
>>drive.  
>>
>> / Marc Barrett  -MB- | BITNET:   XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET        /   
>
>So how come I heard from someone that every title for CDTV worked
>for A2000+Xetec combination except for Barney Bear thingy? This
>has been mentioned here on the net before, I'm not sure which
>group but I do remember clearly.

   You just proved my point.  I think Commodore may be pushing CDTV
software developers to avoid using code in this extra 256K, and to
stay within the original 256K of 1.3 ROM.  Developers of early
CDTV software are probably going to follow Commodore's rules to the
letter, or risk serious incompatibilities if Commodore suddenly changed
something in the CDTV before releasing it.

   We can't always count on CDTV software developers always following
the rules, however.  Most of them do right now, yet there are a few
programs that don't run on third-party CD-ROM products.  As the CDTV
catches on, developers of CDTV software make become more liberal in
developing their software.  The more developers who use code in this
extra 256K of CDTV ROM, the more CDTV titles will become available
that don't run on Amigas with CD-ROMs.

>
>-TG
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