Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: CDTV misleading???!? Air Mouse and things. Message-ID: Date: 6 Jun 91 20:12:35 GMT References: <1991Jun4.204135.17497@cs.wayne.edu> <1991Jun5.002829.22492@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 29 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. > CDTV has a couple of capabilities that I'd not expect to find in the Xetec system. First of all, CDTV has a CDTV.Device in ROM, so if an application uses it, it won't work on the Xetec system (do they have a CDTV.device?). Second, CDTV is capable of playing music from the CD. I don't know if Xetec provides this capability as well... I'd suspect that the Fred Fish Disk CD-ROM would work fine for both. -- **************************************************** * I want games that look like Shadow of the Beast * * but play like Leisure Suit Larry. * ****************************************************