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Green-Beret/Plague
Amiga-CD TV System
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The Amiga is slowly but surely dying of old age-well as the years progress
anyway,so the guyz at Commodore thought of something real,something that would
bring the Amiga into the 21st century.
The whole thing is nothing more that a CD player combined with and Amiga.
The Amiga is now able to read the necessary datas from the CD,thus giving it
thus giving it access to an unlimited amount of sound/graphic datas.
Since the normal CD can hold approx 780 MB of data,the calculation time of
the CD-TV is the same of that of the standard Amiga so no long loading times.
You have to buy an Amiga anyway as the CD-TV system doesn't come with a
keyboard(maybe in the future commodore).The CD-TV system has an interface
included and a specific modem/printer port-this is the only cool thing about
the overhypedabout machine.You will also be able to add an external disk drive
like th Amiga system and also play the musak through your HI-FI system,common
sense but i added it anyway.
Commodore tried to blow your mind away with this machine,but in my opinion
they failed miserably-the whole machine is totally unuseable.Ok sound and gfx
can be utilised like never before but as you have probably seen so far,the
software standard on the machine is abysmal(hope i spealt that right!!!)
My first impression of the machine was wow!!,we really have something here,
viewing the lemmings intro and listening to the digitized voice of sherlock
holmes,but then the boredom set in-the gameplay is the sameover and over again.
My advice-avoid buying this crap and invest your money in a Sega megadrive.
Commodore will have to come up with a machine that matches the power of the
Megadrive,or programmers will have to utilize the power of the amiga.
Or else Commodore will loose loadza money.
At the same time that Commodore released their CD-TV system,a german company
released a machine called CD-ROM,it sounds similar but has far more potential.
CD-ROM looks like a modem and has to be put on a cd player.The CD player reads
all datas from the CD and transfers them to your Amiga,cool but you need a
special player from Pioneer called the CLD 1500 player.Any other player may not
work.CD-ROM will be soon compatible to CD-TV.
Improvements of CD-ROM on CD-TV are the following:-
#much faster
#sound/gfx are cool,even better than coin-op machines.
All sound/gfx digitized.
If you are the owner of the Pioneer player and have an Amiga,then go 4 the
CD-ROM when it takes off.
The only disappointment for all you Elite Crackers out there,is that the games
are uncrackable(not in the way of difficult protections) but one games could
fill up to 100 3 1/2" disks.But as you guyz have seen b4,the CD-TV versions
of Lemmings,Sim-City were cracked to 3-4 disks but thses versions were little
better than the Amiga versions or worse in some cases.
Thats it from me b4 i piss you all off any further,anyway hope you njoid the
above info.