Forget sasquatch and chubacabra, CDTV-II is here!! (IT WORKS!!)

[alexh]

redrumloa wrote:
Any Amiga.org users have experience with the CDTV-II? This badboy may or may not be non-functional.

The only Amiga.org user to have one (that I know of) is Oliver Hannaford-Day (Oli-HD) creator of http://www.cdtv.org.uk/ but I fear his is non working also.

What happens when you switch her on?

[alexh]

This is a great prototype to own if it is functional... get playing :-)

[alexh]

Argo wrote:
It's also amazing how forward thinking the engineers were.

??

@redrumloa
So can you eject and boot discs? What was this IDE thing you mentioned??

[alexh]

NovaCoder wrote:
Anyone know what Grace and Beauty are meant to do?

Yes, lots of places document what they did.

Grace ~= A600 Gayle (Gary + PCMCIA + IDE)
Beauty = LCD controller + IR receiver + I/O controller

Beauty effectively "mops up" all the expensive discrete logic present on the original CDTV 1 motherboard which gave it extra functionality over a regular A500.

NovaCoder wrote:
I don't remember them being released in any other Amiga?

I think you are right.

NovaCoder wrote:
Maybe they became Lisa?

Nah, Lisa is the AGA gfx chip. CDTV2 uses a standard ECS denise.