CompuServe Messages

I'm not a CD-ROM developer, though I've produced Amiga-only multimedia presentations. So temper the following comments with that in mind. Yeah, there are billions of clones out there, but many of 'em aren't powerful enough to run CD-ROM stuff, much less develop for it. Overall, the CD-ROM market has hardly begun to shake out, even within clonedom. The PC world has more than one CD-ROM standard, after all; MPC is one, plain vanilla ISO discs are another. And a lot of the software is still junky. That said, it's still true that the clone market is bigger than the Amiga market. But I'll bet that as a *development* platform for CD-ROMs (as opposed to representing a market), the Amiga will make sense because it offers cheap tools. It costs thousands to replicate on a PC development system the features of, say, plain old Amigavision. Porting a resulting application over to other (non-CDTV formats) shouldn't be that difficult. That's what Xiphias has done with its Timetable series, which originated for CDTV. If you can use multiple loaders, one set of images, text and whatnot can pretty much serve all platforms. E.g., create sounds as MODs and your images as IFFs and one can include utilities that will make these accessible via other platforms. Heck, Amiga MODs are very popular on PCs and Macs these days, so player utilities for both systems are widely available.