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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: pyrre on November 01, 2007, 03:39:41 PM
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I got it for $27.61, have not tested it yet though...
It has only one (visual) defect, a missing button...
And it misses the remote controller.
I will test it after i have eaten dinner...
EDIT:
could not wait...... :-D
And it works!
Now i need the remote, a keyboard (vill standard ps2 work?), and the floppydrive. And a cd caddy .....
EDIT 2:
And the best part, it has the warranty seals intact....(!)
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Need the remote as it ads lots of functionality to it. It's the best remote I've seen out thee, wish the PS3 had something similar. all funciotns for CD access in a gamepad style config.
The CD32 is sooo much better in many ways.
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you're in luck, vesalia (http://www.vesalia.de/e_cdtvremote.htm) still has them remotes. (and new !)
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You can take an A4000 keyboard and wire it to work with CDTV quite easily. I had the actual CDTV keyboard. It looked really nice in black and didn't turn yellow on me LOL! I rewired the CDTV keyboard for use with the CD32 and A4000. Wish I never solid it!
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http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=296&osCsid=0da3aaf1d907775c576794d9531158bb
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You can take an A4000 keyboard and wire it to work with CDTV quite easily
Problem is, i don't have an A4000 keyboard.... (yet)
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I got one recently for £25. All mint with a few cd's, remote, K/B, Mouse, you name it, all immaculate. I think there's some avalible on eBay, or there was a about 2 weeks ago.
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There were several LOTS out on ebay inkluding 10x key boards floppys the kits with floppy mouse and keyboard . maybe they have more ? Or slightly late for that....
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I got hold of a CDTV recently for $30NZ. I managed to track down a CDTV keyboard, 1223 mouse, 1411 floppy and 1200 trackball all in nice Commodore black!!
The trackball is really good because it contains two standard joystick ports that allows you to use a standard Amiga joystick.
Any interesting device to get is the 1301 genlock which when installed has a S-Video port giving a better picture than the composite output. RGB is better but not everyone has a 1084S esp a nice black one!
The only thing missing is some nice CDTV software!
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$27? How come you guys get these babies so damn cheap?
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adonay wrote:
There were several LOTS out on ebay inkluding 10x key boards floppys the kits with floppy mouse and keyboard . maybe they have more ? Or slightly late for that....
This was an old warehouse clearence. Everything is now sold. (Except the 1 system the vendor kept back)
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The salvation army has a local store selling old used stuff...
It was sold as a cd player...
No one knew it was an old (to some valuble) computer....
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Oh, and no one knew if it worked or not....
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Heres your caddy
get it quick
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Commodore-CDTV-Caddy_W0QQitemZ290145640253QQihZ019QQcategoryZ4193QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem
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CDTV Trackball
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Commodore-CDTV-Trackball-Transmitter-CD-1200-RAR_W0QQitemZ130167491683QQihZ003QQcategoryZ8142QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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I bought a CDTV with caddy 50DKR (about 6.70Euro or 9.67US Dollar)
and..
I bought another CDTV with (all in black) keyboard, mouse, disk-drive, 4 caddys, 7 CD's with aminet, fred fish, and more software, for 300DKr (about 58US Dollar or 40Euro)
Cheap I guess :-D
Connected to my TV in my living room with my CD32 :-)
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CDTV's are very cool, DiscreetFX has two. It is where the idea came from for PS3 & X-Box.
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Damn wish i could get my hands on one.
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Why did this sell for so damn much?
http://cgi.ebay.com/COMMODORE-CDTV-Keyboard-Mouse-Disk-Drive-ORIGINAL_W0QQitemZ330178982529QQihZ014QQcategoryZ74945QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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how did what? your link takes me back to this thread.
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Fixed
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It was sold as a cd player...
@pyrre
Shame on them, it's a multi-tasking cd player! :lol:
I got mine for £35 on eBay :-D
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Pyromania wrote:
Why did this sell for so damn much?
I bet the buyer thought it had a CDTV in it?
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I got all that crap when Commodore had the fire-sale just before releasing the AGA amigas (guess they were liquidating as a prep for CD32) They had a good deal. Call a 1-800number and a unit got shipped right to your door.
Lousy software though, the single speed CD-rom was lame, and it should have had an 020 cpu and 2 megs chip ram to do the sort of things they wanted.
Would love to have seen a AAA chipset version of this.
Aside from that it was quite nice. CD-i had great 16 bit color and a 68000 cpu that was suppoedly fast. And lots more software.
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On the inside of the casing it is labeled rev. 2.2.1
But on the right hand side (face towards you) there is a large connector. looking almost like newer type scsi connector. only slimmer. Do anyone know what this connector is intended for?
And the cd-rom inside the CDTV, is it a proprietary system or is it more like SCSI or IDE. In other words, is it possible to change it into a newer rom with tray loading and a bit faster speed than 1x?
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The CD-Rom is proprietary. Many early PC CD-Roms before the Multimedia PC spec were like that. Can't upgrade the CD unless you use a scisi adapter.
I used the CDTV as a cd-rom drive via Parnet if I remember correctly. Worked pretty good connected to an A1000 and A2000.
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I got mine for £35 on eBay :-D
I got mine for $50 along with four A500s, two A1200s, and another CDTV. :D
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Got the CDcaddy today. Good to see that the cdtv works.
Cool GUI on the cd player.
Is it possible to make bootable cds to the cdtv on my own.
perhaps booting old amiga games or even WB from a cd and run games from it...
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pyrre wrote:
Is it possible to make bootable cds to the cdtv on my own.
perhaps booting old amiga games or even WB from a cd and run games from it...
That is what I'm thinking :-D
I would like to do that, but I have not found out how, yet..
BTW.. How the F*** do I make a new thread??
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BTW.. How the F*** do I make a new thread??
1 click on the "forum page" button in "latest forum posts"
2 select a suitable topic
3 click on the "new tread" botton
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pyrre wrote:
BTW.. How the F*** do I make a new thread??
1 click on the "forum page" button in "latest forum posts"
2 select a suitable topic
3 click on the "new tread" botton
:crazy:
why did I not see that "new thread" button.
Thanks :-)
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I paid 10 euro for mine in excellent condition and including the CDTV tutorial disk in its caddy .. The guy thought it was a broken cd player .
And i got an original Commodore box with brand new black CDTV floppy drive , brand new keyboard , brand new mouse , brand new remote , another tutorial disk , cables and all manuals for FREE .. Found it in an office we bought .
Black 1084S for 7 Euro second hand from a car boot sale . Still works but might need some caps replaced .