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Offline taunusand

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Re: I got my hands on a CDTV today... :-)
« Reply #14 on: November 03, 2007, 12:27:27 AM »
I bought a CDTV with caddy 50DKR (about 6.70Euro or 9.67US Dollar)

and..

I bought another CDTV with (all in black) keyboard, mouse, disk-drive, 4 caddys, 7 CD's with aminet, fred fish, and more software, for 300DKr (about 58US Dollar or 40Euro)

Cheap I guess  :-D

Connected to my TV in my living room with my CD32  :-)
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Re: I got my hands on a CDTV today... :-)
« Reply #15 on: November 03, 2007, 01:28:04 AM »
CDTV's are very cool, DiscreetFX has two. It is where the idea  came from for PS3 & X-Box.
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Re: I got my hands on a CDTV today... :-)
« Reply #16 on: November 03, 2007, 01:54:54 AM »
Damn wish i could get my hands on one.
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Re: I got my hands on a CDTV today... :-)
« Reply #17 on: November 03, 2007, 02:09:43 AM »
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Re: I got my hands on a CDTV today... :-)
« Reply #18 on: November 03, 2007, 03:37:29 AM »
how did what?  your link takes me back to this thread.
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Re: I got my hands on a CDTV today... :-)
« Reply #19 on: November 03, 2007, 04:07:00 AM »
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Re: I got my hands on a CDTV today... :-)
« Reply #20 on: November 03, 2007, 08:33:31 AM »
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It was sold as a cd player...
@pyrre
Shame on them, it's a multi-tasking cd player! :lol:
I got mine for £35 on eBay :-D
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Re: I got my hands on a CDTV today... :-)
« Reply #21 on: November 03, 2007, 10:08:23 AM »
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Why did this sell for so damn much?

I bet the buyer thought it had a CDTV in it?
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Re: I got my hands on a CDTV today... :-)
« Reply #22 on: November 03, 2007, 01:24:57 PM »
I got all that crap when Commodore had the fire-sale just before releasing the AGA amigas (guess they were liquidating as a prep for CD32) They had a good deal. Call a 1-800number and a unit got shipped right to your door.

Lousy software though, the single speed CD-rom was lame, and it should have had an 020 cpu and 2 megs chip ram to do the sort of things they wanted.

Would love to have seen a AAA chipset version of this.

Aside from that it was quite nice. CD-i had great 16 bit color and a 68000 cpu that was suppoedly fast. And lots more software.
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Re: I got my hands on a CDTV today... :-)
« Reply #23 on: November 04, 2007, 12:13:24 AM »
On the inside of the casing it is labeled rev. 2.2.1

But on the right hand side (face towards you) there is a large connector. looking almost like newer type scsi connector. only slimmer. Do anyone know what this connector is intended for?

And the cd-rom inside the CDTV, is it a proprietary system or is it more like SCSI or IDE. In other words, is it possible to change it into a newer rom with tray loading and a bit faster speed than 1x?
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Re: I got my hands on a CDTV today... :-)
« Reply #24 on: November 04, 2007, 12:30:21 AM »
The CD-Rom is proprietary. Many early PC CD-Roms before the Multimedia PC spec were like that. Can't upgrade the CD unless you use a scisi adapter.

I used the CDTV as a cd-rom drive via Parnet if I remember correctly. Worked pretty good connected to an A1000 and A2000.

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Re: I got my hands on a CDTV today... :-)
« Reply #25 on: November 04, 2007, 12:58:11 AM »
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I got mine for £35 on eBay :-D


I got mine for $50 along with four A500s, two A1200s, and another CDTV. :D
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Re: I got my hands on a CDTV today... :-)
« Reply #26 on: November 10, 2007, 06:51:14 PM »
Got the CDcaddy today. Good to see that the cdtv works.
Cool GUI on the cd player.

Is it possible to make bootable cds to the cdtv on my own.
perhaps booting old amiga games or even WB from a cd and run games from it...
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Re: I got my hands on a CDTV today... :-)
« Reply #27 on: November 10, 2007, 08:54:52 PM »
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pyrre wrote:
Is it possible to make bootable cds to the cdtv on my own.
perhaps booting old amiga games or even WB from a cd and run games from it...


That is what I'm thinking :-D
I would like to do that, but I have not found out how, yet..

BTW.. How the F*** do I make a new thread??
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Re: I got my hands on a CDTV today... :-)
« Reply #28 on: November 10, 2007, 09:13:43 PM »
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BTW.. How the F*** do I make a new thread??


1 click on the "forum page" button in "latest forum posts"
2 select a suitable topic
3 click on the "new tread" botton
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Re: I got my hands on a CDTV today... :-)
« Reply #29 from previous page: November 10, 2007, 09:42:25 PM »
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pyrre wrote:
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BTW.. How the F*** do I make a new thread??


1 click on the "forum page" button in "latest forum posts"
2 select a suitable topic
3 click on the "new tread" botton


 :crazy:
why did I not see that "new thread" button.
Thanks :-)
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