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I suppose there`s absolutely no self respecting Amigan out there who
doesn`t already know about Commodore`s CD-TV. And anybody with a bit
of sense will see that it is a bit of a waste of time at the mo.,
unless you`re looking for a pricy Cd-player. So why bring up the
obvious? Well unlike most people I think that It`s improvement will
be detremental to the amiga as we know it.
Okay , the average compact disk can hold 580mb of info., a pretty
incredible capability, for a relatively low price. But it is exactly
this capability that will ruin the amiga scene. Y`see, why bother
hiring somebody to do the soundtrack to a game, particularly
conversions, when you can just get the real thing on CD and why
bother hiring someone to do the graphix, when you can just digitise
them. And of course it`s going to be pretty damn hard to Crack CD games
to floppy, with a 580:1 storage ratio there won`t be much point either.
Now up to this point I`ve focused on the effect it`ll have on the
Commercial industry, time to move on to a more relevant area.Money
talks, and the scene ain`t immune. Already certain areas of the
scene can rely on a guy`s finance rather than his actual talent, The
growth of Modem trading is a good example, but what happens when (if ever)
CD-Rom becomes a standard? Groups are going to start going in the same
direction as the industry, and pretty soon there`ll be no need for talented
graphix artists/musicians just a CD-Rom and a digitiser. In fact I doubt
even coders will be spared, can you imagine an operating system with 580
megs to play with, `Workbench Turbo` mayhaps, the CLI on this baby might
contain just about every routine you may ever need.
Well at least it`s a pretty good CD player.......
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Although only rumour at the moment , It`s almost certain there wil be a
16 channel Paula chip. It`s about bloody time. On my own part I often run
out of channels, especially when doing an Acidic tune, And as the wise man
says (Well he doesn`t really but let`s pretend he does),`A corner cut beith
not a corner no more'. But there is a downside, and trust me to bring it up
like a bad lunch. How is a 7.12 MHz machine going to cope adequately with
trying to run 16 Channels of digitised sound? You`d have to shut down the
entire system to even attempt to use it, so you can forget it in a demo
(Unless you plan to give free Accelerator boards and Memory upgrades
away with it.). Mind you it would be something else to hear a 16-chan.
Romeo-Knight Track.
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Ah well time to quit moaning I suppose , sorry if you read this in the hope
of getting some techy info. but I prefer to offer a user`s point of view.
If you`ve any feedback on the matter feel free to write to us.
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