Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: CDTV.. Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 91 09:40:27 GMT References: <1991May29.191646.15898@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Jun3.201650.15664@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1991Jun5.152659.25120@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 19 In article <1991Jun5.152659.25120@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: > You haven't described to me how you actually combine >those three things to make a CDTV. For example, lets say you want >the encyclopedia, or the CD+G, or one of the larger games. You >can't do it with those things. > None of them can talk to each other. The Amiga can't >control the CD and it can't control the VCR. The closest you >could come would be adding a genlock, but then you still can't >tell a VCR (at your price) to skip to a certain frame and start >playing. Point of information: The Amiga CAN control the CD and it CAN control a number of VCRs and LaserDisk players. -- **************************************************** * I want games that look like Shadow of the Beast * * but play like Leisure Suit Larry. * ****************************************************