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- From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: CDTV is dead.
- Message-ID: <34221@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 17:16:28 GMT
- References: <1992Aug8.182523.23736@utstat.uucp> <1992Aug10.161627.14259@lth.se> <1992Aug10.213202.15982@cheshire.oxy.edu> <1992Aug11.034128.7073@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <34180@cbmvax.commodore.com> <w71vr*SO0@caleb.UUCP>
- Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
- Organization: Flying Cat Software
- Lines: 29
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- In article <w71vr*SO0@caleb.UUCP> jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
- >In article <34180@cbmvax.commodore.com>, Andy Finkel writes:
- >
- >> It wouldn't work on most of the A500s out there without additional expense,
- >> then. Also, its slightly tricky to put a rom for the 256K of the CDTV OS
- >> on a SCSI port.
- >
- >Why not a piggyback board for the ROM (and supporting circuitry and jumpers)
- >and an arbitrary external SCSI CD-ROM drive?
- >
- >
- > Jim Pritchett
-
- As I said, its slightly tricky; you couldn't just plug it into
- the SCSI port. You'd also have to deal with getting subcode data over
- the SCSI bus; something that most SCSI CDROM drives don't seem to
- handle. And, as SCSI on an A500 requires a SCSI controller, your
- end cost would be pretty high as conpared to the A570.
-
- andy
-
- --
- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy
-
- "A new release is where old bad assumptions are replaced by new
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