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- From: v128mh7z@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Wolverine)
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- Subject: Re: What shits me about the CDTV
- Message-ID: <C1JG7x.6w7@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 00:35:00 GMT
- References: <Steven_Hurdle.00wv@amusers.UUCP>
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- In article <Steven_Hurdle.00wv@amusers.UUCP>, Steven_Hurdle@amusers.UUCP (Steven Hurdle) writes...
- >In a message dated Wed 13 Jan 93 5:40, Amiga@usage.csd.oz (amiga Utilities
- >wrote:
- >
- >[earlier, I said]
- >> This is simply not true. Turn on the CDTV, leave the monitor off. Plug
- >in
- >> an audio-CD. Hit Play on the front panel of the unit and the track
- >number
- >> will appear beside the clock and will stay displayed there and updated
- >> through the time you're using it.
- >
- > AU> Maybe you have a different version of ROMs, but why would I complain
- > AU> if
- > AU> it weren't true? You just try it on my CDTV!! Try following your
- > AU> method
- > AU> and then press the stop button about twenty seconds into the first
- > AU> track.
- > AU> Then play again, bet you the track number will not appear. If it does
- > AU> you must have a different version of CDTV to the one I have.
- >
- >I just tried it again. I am using the AmigaOS (of course, because I'm in
- >my term). I plugged in my favourite audio CD (Kojiki from Kitaro) and hit
- >play. I waited, then hit stop about 20 seconds into the first track. I
- >then hit play again. The track number DID reappear. Bear in mind that I
- >have a CDTV from Commodore Canada, not that I think that it should make any
- >difference as I'd think they were all the same. I'm very surprised that
- >yours doesn't do this. Have you ruled out the possibility that you have a
- >defective one?
- >
- >-- Via DLG Pro v0.995
- >
- >Steven Hurdle <==> The Swindler [public replies only please]
- >Writer of "Virtual Rumours", a rumour/news column in some club newsletters.
- >Coming to you from Victoria B.C., the Bahamas of Canada: via SupraFAX!!!!!
- >
- > "Give me AGA, or give me DEATH!!!"
-
-
-
- I have an American made CD-TV, and the track number is ALWAYS there,
- regardless of when I put a disk in, or when I turn it on.
-
-
- Wolvie
-