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- From: ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: CDTV console due soon
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 17:00:35 GMT
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- In article <harry.03qm@elfuerte.fipnet.fi> harry@elfuerte.fipnet.fi (Harri P Pesonen) writes:
- >This was in December CU Amiga, page 10:
- >
- >"A cut-price, cut-down console-like version of the CDTV is set for launch
- >before next Easter. Although plans for the new machine, aimed at taking on
- >the SNES and Megadrive in the burgeoning console market, have been kept
- >underwraps, we can exclusively reveal that the new machine will be
- >competitively priced and come in at below #200 (200 UK pounds). No specs
- >are currently available although at least five UK software houses are
- >currently developing titles."
-
- Hmmm, this is interesting. This system would actually make more business
- sense than CDTV has - TurboGrafx and Sega have both shown that these systems
- are marketable, albeit to different degrees. If Commodore were working on
- such a system, I'd be really interested to see how they handle it.
- The one problem that Commodore must address is the issue of CD-quality
- audio for such a system. Paula isn't going to cut it, even with AGA. There
- would have to be new hardware to handle that...
-
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- Gregg Giles (Dynamix, Inc.) "Infinite Laser Dog" Development Team
- All opinions expressed are my own. ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu, BIX: ggiles
- Willy Beamish (MS-DOS CD-ROM, Sega-CD), Space Quest V (MS-DOS), A10 1.5 (Amiga)
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