A570 and CDTV compatibility

[Zac67]

The A570 doesn't have a battery as the 500 should have one for RTC. The buffered RAM from the CDTV doesn't exist with the 570 but it's hardly ever used anyway.

[Tenacious]

@ Zektor

If you can't find the internal ram expansion for the A570, Supra's RX500 is also compatible.  I've run mine with upto 4 Megs of fast, never tried 8 Megs.

The 570 is compatible only with the original CPU clock rate, accelerators will dramatically shorten it's life, if they will boot with it at all.  It does work fine with the 68010, but the marginal speed-up is hard to quantify outside of Sysinfo.


EDIT: It works with 2 Megs of chip, too.

[ceaser]

Hey check this site out: http://www.cdtv.org.uk/

There's a bunch of titles that for some reason work with a CDTV but not A570.  I don't know why at all.  This site might explain why but I just use it to figure out which ones will and won't work.  Those ones that don't work, I guess either a Commodore CD32 console or an Amiga 1200 or Amiga 4000(tougher to get going A4000 though) with CD-ROM configured correctly will play ANY CDTV titles as well as CD32 and any Ami-CD format disks.  That CDTV logo I think was kept for CD32 games and anything that booted off the CDTV set top model(shown on that website).  That's the only thing that'll show on an A570 if you try to boot a CD32 game on it, OR if you have a PAL game on an NTSC Amiga.

[ceaser]

I found one btw and I paid quite a bit for it when you include shipping.  Something like $130.  I think it's the 1st CD drive ever made for a computer but might be wrong about that.  You should be able to find about 20-30 titles for it if you count PAL and NTSC.  Psycho Killer and Town With No Name are the favorite 2 games I've found for it so far.  Someone told me my A570 was broken in another post when I complained the sound output was low.  See you're supposed to put your audio out RCA red & white to this audio-in jack on the A570, then from the A570 to the speakers/home theater receiver you're using with it.  I recommend any old computer speakers with it.  I don't know maybe something is wrong with mine but I really don't think so.  Just a tip if you have problems with not hearing the sound.

Amplified speakers or headphones is what I mean* Also a neat trick I used was I put the sound out to some old computer speakers then out from the headphone jack to the home theater receiver, and that really let me get great sound out of it.  Note: you might not have this problem, but if you do, just do this to fix it.  It's a lot easier than trying to fix a sound processor.

one last thing*  the cd caddies are real fragile, but they're quite easy to replace.  one of the push-down releases on one side broke right off from use.  It was loose when I got it.  Symptom is the disk caddy will not snap in easily you'll have to jiggle it a little bit.  But I did a search for "cd caddy" on ebay about 10 seconds after it broke and found one for $8 including shipping!  So buy a couple extra cd caddies if you're going to use it a lot.  wait till you get it first.  the one i ordered had a picture and happened to look identical to the one i had though it didn't say it was a commodore cd caddy.  I think there was a uniform size for them.