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

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This bad boy has been seen in the wild less than the Loch Ness Monster!! :-o









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[color=ff0000]It works!! See below!![/color][/b]

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Welcome 2 new women to the Amiga family, Grace and Beauty!




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

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Lorraine wrote:
Is this the cost reduced version which was never supposed to exist?!!!

What's different about it compared to the usual CDTVs?

Correct, it was never released for sale.

Info on Amiga-Hardware.com

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alexh wrote:
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?

I get a little activity on the LCD (small rotating circle in the upper left hand corner) for a couple seconds when I turn on the power switch in the back. Then nothing until I hit the power switch up front when I get "CD-TV" on the lower left hand croner of the LCD, but that is it. It is completely unresponsive after that.

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Can't put a disk in the drive yet, eject button is nonresponsive like everything else. I did just get a little information from the previous owner that there is an IDE module that is not currently hooked up and that the CDTV-II was indeed working when put into storage. I'm going to hunt down the IDE module and put it into place to see if she'll start up.

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@recidivist

Your welcome for the pics, if there are any picture requests now is the time to ask :-)

No sign of a SX32 yet, but I do have at least one CD1500 (CDTV Professional, makes CDTV a full computer) and a SCSI-TV.

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YOu didn't happen to find any SX32 in that stash?

SX32 is found :-D

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[color=ff0000]OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG[/color][/b]

[color=0000ff]It's alive!!!!!!!1!!!!!111!!!![/color][/b]



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@Tahoe

The CD1500 is the "CDTV Professional" expansion pack for the CDTV. It gives you a floppy, keyboard, mouse etc. It basically makes a CDTV into a full functioning computer.

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Tahoe wrote:
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Ah, thanx! So that was all bundled in a kit form? Here they were just sold seperatly.
 

Yup, there was a bundle.

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Youtube video:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1nhoNvaplt4

Youtube made the video very dark again for some reason.

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alexh wrote:

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

Yes, or at least I was for a while. Now it stopped working again. I am very suspicious of the power supply. Anyone have a pinout of the power supply?

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Yup, I was right. The power supply has seriously leaky capacitors!!

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DJBase wrote:
Electrolyte looks a bit different and those types of capacitors doesn't leak unless they are explode.

I don't know about that. I have a Televideo TS-803H that didn't work and had leaky capacitors that looks just like that. I re-capped the whole thing, which took many, many hours, and it works like a champ now.

If not electrolyte, what is it? Glue?

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I guess it is glue..

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Inside this PS the leads are marked +5V, -12V etc. The green is marked CK and brown is marked SF. What the heck is SF and CK :-? CK shows ~2vdc AND 2vac on a MM. SF shows nada.