#CDTV compatiblity <urg!>
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I bought a CDTV last week, to be used as a music CD player and as a
CD-ROM drive, connected through Parnet, for my 3000. I'm not really
interested in CDTV interactive titles, but rather the generic "archive"
type discs such as Walnut Creek's AB20 Internet archive, their "6,000 GIF
Images" disc, the Fred Fish collection, Texture City, and various other IBM
and Mac archive discs.
Well, it turns out that none of Walnut Creek's discs are currently
compatible with CDTV. The next pressing of the AB20 disc will be
compatible, but I doubt they'll rework their other discs to make them
CDTV-compatible. This is a disturbing point, and I'd like to get your
experiences as to how good or bad CDTV is as a CD-ROM drive. Which titles
do you use which are compatible, or conversely, which titles were you
disappointed to find unreadable by CDTV?
Blaq!
Charles,
If you can hook up a floppy disk to the CDTV and boot the machine from
that you will be able to read regular CD-ROM disks. It seems that if you
boot the CDTV from a CD it causes it to reboot when you remove the disc if
you boot from a floopy drive this is not the case. You can swap discs in
and out with no problem. Your will have to config the floppy to run
ParNet when you boot. I have used this method with the original DNet and
it worked fine. This ran over the serial port though and was kind of
slow. Hope this helps.
Paul,
that may be so, but having your CDTV connected to your main Amiga via
DNet or Parnet does not mean CDTV will read the discs. If they have a
non-standard block size, CDTV will refuse to work. _This_ is the
information I'm after.
Blaq!