BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) (07/03/90)
Commodore has hinted in their information about the CDTV that there
will be CD ROM equipment made available to current Amiga users to allow
them to use software for the CDTV, and have all the capabilities of the
CDTV.
Someone started a discussion about whether or not the CDTV (or an
Amiga with CD ROM hardware) would be able to read IBM or MAC CD ROM
discs. Someone else then mentioned that at least one Commodore
official said that it should be possible, at least in the case of
reading IBM CD ROMs.
I would like to carry this discussion still one step further.
Should it be possible, with an Amiga 2000 system with both a BridgeCard
and the CD ROM hardware, to actually RUN CD ROM based software for
IBM (and compatibles)? This would make the Amiga the best, most
flexible CD ROM system in the industry if it could. It would also
be even better hardware similar to the BridgeCard (minus the IBM
slot compatibility hardware) could be made available as an upgrade
option for the CDTV, as this would allow the CDTV to be upgraded to
both Amiga and IBM compatibility, making the CDTV impossible to
beat in upgradeability.
I would like to echo one more question: can MAC CD ROM discs be
read with the Amiga CD ROM hardware? If it can, this would make it
theoretically possible to do the same with MAC CD ROM programs, if
ReadySoft could be convinced into making their A-MAX emulator be
able to use the Amiga CD ROM hardware in this way.
-MB-