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- From: rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: CDTV is dead.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.144851.27936@kas.helios.mn.org>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 14:48:51 GMT
- References: <1992Aug8.063451.24742@ctr.columbia.edu> <hG1ur*CN0@caleb.UUCP> <1992Aug11.174423.11445@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
- Organization: Rob's home system, Hopkins, MN
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- In article <1992Aug11.174423.11445@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@libws2.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
- = I saw the Amiga 500 CDTV drive about a year ago in April. I can say
- =that it was rather large and bulky, kind of like a 1541 floppy drive. I did
- =not test any software on it but they did show us the Lemmings game. I have
- =seen photographs of the new Amiga 500 CDTV drive and can say that it is
- =a big improvement over the earlier version we saw in NYC. They obviously
- =put some effort into the thing. Too bad there is no 2000 version. And of
- =course the A3000 has no CD ROM bay...
- =
- What I want to know is if the NEW A4000, or whatever they'll call it,
- comes with a CD-ROM and if the OS integrates Audio, Video, Data and
- CD-ROM interfaces seemlessly like MacOS, Win 3.1 and OS/2 are getting
- close to doing.
-
- If C= is going to release yet another pricy high end machine it should
- at least compete against main stream MIDDLE end machines...
-
- -Rob
-