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From: rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: CDTV News
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Date: 1 Jul 91 03:30:19 GMT
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Responding to the following: :-)

>   In order for it to be used in a new CDTV, it had better be cheap.
>Commodore has to get a decent chipset into that thing as soon as possible,
>so that Commodore can make the CDTV fully compatible with CD-I.  I also
>want the A500 to finally get improved capabilities as well, using the
>same improved chipset that should go into CDTV.  Did you realize that
>there are now dedicated game machines with color capabilities better than
>the CDTV, A500, and A3000?
>

  I have the best solution to making CDTV compat with CD-I. Just buy
the CD-I chips. No doubt they will be mass produced. Why reinvent the
wheel? The added bonus would be that with CDTV you can play all
the CD-I software plus all of the Amiga's great games. Something lost
about today's games is that they are all action and little content.
Lemmings, Populus, Simcity, Tetris (and classic games like MULE!) provide
far more hours of playability than BlastEvery24bitObjectOnThisScreenCauseIt
LooksCoolAndCostsAFortune v2.0.

  You walk into the arcades nowadays and 80% of the games are
the same plot. Blastemup, collect massive amounts of weapons,
destroy the super_cool_looking_monster_at_the_end_of_this_level.
I'd like to know what the difference bewteen Turrican and Shadow Of the
best is besides graphics and music. Games like Space Ace and
Shadow of the beast are nice demos to show to friends (bragging
demos) but they really lack playability. Like Mike says, I want
games that look like SOTB but play like Leisure Suit larry.

 Marc, did you notice that none of these "super" game machines are the
top sellers? The NeoGeo is very expensive and the cartridges are
>$150 a piece.  Nitendo and Sega do not have 24bit graphics.
Even the Super Nitendo  isn't much of an improvement. The really
hot game machines with better graphics than the Amiga not selling that
well because they are too expensive.

 Asking for 24bit graphics all on one chip (with the ability to animate
and use them in games) is a little out of this world. Asking it to be
cheap is a fantasy.




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