9 May
2013
9 May
'13
10:49 a.m.
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:30 AM, <jthecman at netscape.net> wrote:
On Wed, May 8, 2013 4:21 pm, Ethan Dicks
<ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
I never got any of the accessories. What I did with mine was use it as an
audio CD player, a CD+G player, and the first place I did any CD-ROM
fiddling.
The way I used it without all the accessories was to boot it off of a
regular white external Amiga floppy drive with a Workbench disk
that had PARnet and the "netkeys-handler". I connected it to my
regular A1000, and PARnet/netkeys handled the transition and
input event traffic when I moved the mouse pointer off the right of
the A1000 screen to jump to the CDTV Workbench screen. I
could then use my A1000's mouse and keyboard as if it were
directly attached to the CDTV. It was a little laggy but quite usable.
I only had it for a few weeks before it was burgled (along with a 35mm
camera). It was probably the shiniest thing in the living room.
-ethan
... a specific Amiga I'm casually looking for
is the CDTV... essentially an
Amiga 500 with CD-ROM that looks like a VCR or stereo receiver.
I have two if the CDTV units along with a mouse, external 3.5 drive,
controllers, and some game CD's. Still looking for one of the black monitors
sold with it.