foleyjo wrote:
If you can get a Keyboard, mouse and external floppy drive then yes its worth getting.
I just recently got the last piece to complete my CDTV, a black CDTV keyboard, thank you Ray from Hawaii.
My black mouse is not an original CDTV mouse, it is the Amiga Technologies mouse that I am not real fond of as I don't think it works as well as it should, and certainly not as well as a Wizard 3 button 560dpi, or AlfaData optical mouse. I also have an "Air Mouse" for the Amiga that I could try with the CDTV that is black. It works via infrared, but has its own infrared receiver so it can work with any Amiga.
A member here programmed for me an updated version of the two special CDTV ROMs that I believe contain the CD-ROM controller code as well as some other things, so I now have the latest version.
So, all in all, I am quite happy with my CDTV, but I think I will try to upgrade it a bit further with the installation of an AdIDE hard drive controller, DKB MegaChip 2mb RAM expansion, and a Kickstart ROM switch from an unknown manufacturer with either the 1.3 & 2.05 ROMs, or 1.3 & 3.1 ROMs.
That should make it a very versatile Amiga gamer except for AGA games, which will have to be played on my A1200, A4000 or CD32. I don't know about options to use regular joysticks on the CDTV. That would be the only other thing I might be interested in doing to it, or I may just leave it like it is now and enjoy it for what it is. I have other Amigas that can fulfill the hard drive and multiple Kickstart ROM options.
So obviously my vote would be for any Amiga enthusiast to get a CDTV. The wireless infrared remote controllers are unique to this model Amiga and kind of cool.