Mark writes: I think this is a developers package for CD32 gaming. The CD32 was a stillborn version of the A1200, intended to compete with Nintendo, etc. I'll bet it autoboots on a CD32 console, if you can find one. Gary Hildebrand St. Joseph, MO

--- Mark <mark_k(a)totalise.co.uk> wrote: In a way, I'm not surprised... the CD-TV was not a big seller. I don't know if this would work with any of the Amiga emulators (like UAE, etc.), but I expect it _would_ work with a real CD-TV (which is not a CD-32). The CD-TV was an Amiga in a black box, styled like a VCR or component CD-player. It would play audio CDs, CD+G and even CD+MIDI (although I am only aware of one CD+MIDI disk ever being produced). It should resemble an Amiga 500 with an A570 CD-ROM drive (more or less) with some extra libraries in ROM. There's a VFD display on the front that the 68000 can write to, and an early memory card interface (64K/128K?) for saving game data, etc. You could get a floppy drive, mouse and keyboard for it (the floppy was standard Amiga, but black; the mouse and keyboard were not). I had one for a while, before it was stolen in a 1990 burglary. I paid full MSRP of $799 for it. Somewhere, I still have the CD that came with it, as well as the black caddy. Oh yea... IIRC the drive is 1X and definitely uses a caddy. Besides playing audio disks with its built-in ROM-based interface, I did hook it up to my Amiga 1000 over a parallel cable and built a boot floppy for it with DNet and the NetKeys handler, so I could drive it from my regular desktop machine (two CPUs, two monitors, one mouse and keyboard) to explore the machine. There's some really great crud in the corners of the demo disk that came in the package. Thanks for sharing this. It makes me miss my CD-TV (but not enough to go pay too much on eBay for one. ;-) -ethan The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com