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From: James_Hastings-Trew@tptbbs.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: CDTV titles on an A500?
Message-ID: <James_Hastings-Trew.3200@tptbbs.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 91 03:10:16 GMT
Organization: TelePro Technologies
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In a message dated Mon 03 Jun 91 05:00, Taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (marc Barr
wrote:

 TB>    One thing that concerns me, though, is the likely problem of
 TB> compatibility with the CDTV.  I've mentioned this before, and got no
 TB> responses at all, so I will try again.  

 TB>    The CDTV uses a modified 1.3 ROM.  The 1.3 ROM is 256K, however
 TB> the
 TB> CDTV uses a 512K ROM.  The extra 256K is filled with system software
 TB> specific to the CDTV.  This 256K of software may not be present on an
 TB> Amiga with the Commodore CD-ROM drive, and certainly will not be 
 TB> present on an Amiga with any other CD-ROM drive.  There are other

The CDTV has numerous graphic screens - title screen, an animated waiting
screen, a full colour control panel, a full colour preferences panel, and an
animated "screen blanker" mode. I imagine this takes the lion's share of
256K...