CDTV

[weGuru]

I used my CDTV for Midi stuff and i was wondering if it is possible to make a bootable Octamed cd? My Octamed Disk is working 10% of the time and I need another way of booting Octamed....

[SamuraiCrow]

The CDTV can boot from some magazine cover-disks if you can find one with the correct version of AmigaOS.  If you have AminetSet 5 you should be able to boot to AmigaOS and run Octamed Soundstudio 1.03c (Soundstudio is the successor of Octamed.)

As for making a bootable CD, I'm not sure if a CDTV's CD-ROM can access CDR's or not since the reflectivity of a CDR is less than that of a regular CD-ROM.

[weGuru]

CDTV can read cdr's werry good....i burn samples to cds and use on the cdtv

[Stevo]

Well...there are quite some CDTV's around with KS 1.3 installed (isn't that the basic config anyway? I know there are 2.04 CDTV's out there, but I even got a 1.3 ECS one ;-) ), so in those cases running OSS would be a tad difficult. And don't you need a lincensed bootloader/file on your cdroms to make them (auto)booting on a CDTV?

[quenthal]

Ok, I have run most of my CDTV titles from backups to avoid scratches and all that for my quite hard to find games. So using CDRs should not be a problem.

You can make bootable cds by yourself, but you need cdtv.tm -file from Amiga developer cd. I have seen cdtv.tm -files floating over net, but I'm not sure about legality of those.

There is nice, but quite old guide here:
http://acdldp.emuunlim.com/bootablecdr.shtml