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Title: WTD: CDTV brick-ettes.
Post by: tapir on March 09, 2008, 12:44:22 PM

I've just picked up a CDTV for my collection and have discovered that it doesn't take the standard DIN-9 joysticks (should read up better beforehand, I suppose).

Does anybody have/know where to get a couple of brick-ettes (adapters for the joystick/mouse ports)?

Title: Re: WTD: CDTV brick-ettes.
Post by: alexh on March 09, 2008, 03:16:22 PM

You can get the wireless controllers brand new for almost nothing.

http://www.vesalia.de/e_cdtvremote.htm

Title: Re: WTD: CDTV brick-ettes.
Post by: amigakit on March 09, 2008, 03:20:03 PM

We also have new CDTV Remotes in stock now at lowest price:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=296

Title: Re: WTD: CDTV brick-ettes.
Post by: tapir on March 10, 2008, 12:17:41 AM

Thanks for your suggestions - I actually have one of them already. I'm hoping to use the CDTV as my main 1.3-era box, as it looks so much cooler and works well with the 28" LCD screen that it's connected to :)

Are there also infrared joysticks that work the same as a cabled one?

Come to think of it - is there an easy way to make an adapter to plug an A4000 keyboard into a CDTV? I've got one, but the plug is a little different.

Title: Re: WTD: CDTV brick-ettes.
Post by: Phantom on March 10, 2008, 01:55:43 AM

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I'm hoping to use the CDTV as my main 1.3-era box, as it looks so much cooler and works well with the 28" LCD screen that it's connected to :)

Have you tried on a 50" LCD TV? It's marvellous. ;-)

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Are there also infrared joysticks that work the same as a cabled one?

Never heard of any, but I'm searching one of those, if they exist. :-D

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Come to think of it - is there an easy way to make an adapter to plug an A4000 keyboard into a CDTV? I've got one, but the plug is a little different.

CDTV keyboards, have different pin outs. I got mine in good condition from efunzine.com for about 25 euros. It's the original black CDTV keyboard. 8-)

Title: Re: WTD: CDTV brick-ettes.
Post by: tapir on March 10, 2008, 12:34:28 PM

Haha! made a discovery whilst cleaning up my desk... the trackball unit has two joystick ports on the back of it :) I've only just bought the CDTV, so I've never used the trackball before.

All I need is a SVHS cable to plug it in to CDTV and I'm set :) Well, that and a keyboard now:)

Anybody got a CDTV keyboard for sale/for trade for my A4000 keyboard? :) Failing that, how to make an adapter for the A4000 keyboard?

Title: Re: WTD: CDTV brick-ettes.
Post by: tapir on March 10, 2008, 01:44:59 PM

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Phantom wrote:

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I'm hoping to use the CDTV as my main 1.3-era box, as it looks so much cooler and works well with the 28" LCD screen that it's connected to :)

Have you tried on a 50" LCD TV? It's marvellous. ;-)

I'm serious - it looks pretty good. Sure, it's a bit blocky, but the colour reproduction is great and unlike some other old stuff that I've plugged in, there isn't any compression distortion (like a badly-compressed jpg, for want of a better description). Sure, it doesn't look like a 1084, but it's much larger :)