PYC118@uriacc.uri.edu (Ras) (03/20/91)
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this but here goes... I'm really considering selling my 500 (and my CD player too) in order to get a CDTV but I have a few questions that some of you might know: 1) How much will CDTV cost street price and is the price likely to go down within a few months? 2) How much is that keyboard going to cost? 3) How much will the Grolier encyclopedia cost (more or less)? 3) and most importantly, can I use my external drive as a *DF0* with CDTV so that I can use all the programs I have right now? Rasiel ps. Ooh! I forgot! Can I use regular joysticks and mouses with CDTV or am I gonna be stuck with that Nintendo-like joypad thingy?
Robert_Salesas@mindlink.UUCP (Robert Salesas) (03/21/91)
Better yet, why don't you wait for the add on CD player for the 500? It might be better than selling all and getting a CDTV. Rob -- \--------------------------------------------------------------------/ \ Robert Salesas + Usenet: Robert_Salesas@MINDLINK.UUCP / \ Eschalon Development Inc. + CIS: 76625,1320 BYTE: newdawn / \--------------------------------------------------------------------/
peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) (03/21/91)
In article <48298@nigel.ee.udel.edu> PYC118@uriacc.uri.edu (Ras) writes: >I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this but here goes... Well, there seem to better alternatives. .marketplace? .multimedia? >1) How much will CDTV cost street price and is the price likely to go down >within a few months? >2) How much is that keyboard going to cost? >3) How much will the Grolier encyclopedia cost (more or less)? Sorry, no idea of prices or even street prices :-). >3) and most importantly, can I use my external drive as a *DF0* with CDTV > so that I can use all the programs I have right now? Yes, the connector is there. >ps. Ooh! I forgot! Can I use regular joysticks and mouses with CDTV or am I >gonna be stuck with that Nintendo-like joypad thingy? They tell me, these connectors are also there. (Can't swear because all our test samples are in Hannover at CeBIT.) There will be a further option with an IR remote device that sends IR impulses to the CDTV and where you plug a normal mouse/joystick into (hope I didn't get this one the wrong way round :-). -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
aaron@stat.tamu.edu (Aaron Hightower) (03/21/91)
In article <48298@nigel.ee.udel.edu> PYC118@uriacc.uri.edu (Ras) writes: >I'm really considering selling my 500 (and my CD player too) in order to get >a CDTV but I have a few questions that some of you might know: > >1) How much will CDTV cost street price and is the price likely to go down >within a few months? Hmmm. I don't know. I believe that the retail price will be starting at $999. The developer price is $750. Not sure what the edu. price will be, but I believe it will be more than $750 (at least a little). You could pay the developer fee to save a few bucks possibly. I think the developer fee is appx $75. If you couldn't find it cheaper than $825, this would work, and I don't think you would have to pay taxes on it either (as a developer). >2) How much is that keyboard going to cost? >3) How much will the Grolier encyclopedia cost (more or less)? (2) I don't know and (3) I don't know. >4) and most importantly, can I use my external drive as a *DF0* with CDTV > so that I can use all the programs I have right now? When I saw CDTV last week, the person who showed it to me inserted a workbench disk, and I could use the controller to control the mouse (although it was slow). In answer to your question, I'm am not sure, but it's a definite maybe. I had no problem operating workbench. The only problem I could forsee is the delay in the signal because of the speed of the infrared controller. This would mean that fast action games not work too well (EG Shadow of the Beast et al). The controller has a button to switch from mouse to joystick so that it can act as one or the other (but not both simulataneously). CDTV is a very impressive system. I don't think that the discount places are going to reduce them too much for a while (getting back to your original question). I am a bit curious about how many machines have already been manufactured. In any case, I expect them to be *HOT*. They some graphics that will totally blow your socks off on the CDTV. Really really really nice. I saw a CD+G disc on the machine too. Very impressive. Brace yourselves before you go look at one when they arrive. >Rasiel > >ps. Ooh! I forgot! Can I use regular joysticks and mouses with CDTV or am I >gonna be stuck with that Nintendo-like joypad thingy? Nope. There are two joystick ports, but the are both really wierd looking. I think that someone may find a market to make a plug that will allow 9-pin joysticks to be plugged into the CDTV. Who knows? Until later... (* poof *)
mykes@sega0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) (03/24/91)
In article <5221@mindlink.UUCP> Robert_Salesas@mindlink.UUCP (Robert Salesas) writes: >Better yet, why don't you wait for the add on CD player for the 500? >It might be better than selling all and getting a CDTV. > >Rob > >-- >\--------------------------------------------------------------------/ >\ Robert Salesas + Usenet: Robert_Salesas@MINDLINK.UUCP / >\ Eschalon Development Inc. + CIS: 76625,1320 BYTE: newdawn / >\--------------------------------------------------------------------/ The key word you used is "wait". If the wait for the add on CD player for the 500 is as long as it was for CDTV, then you will wait until 1999 :) -- ******************************************************* * Assembler Language separates the men from the boys. * *******************************************************
sulee@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Simon Lee) (03/25/91)
In article <mykes.0098@sega0.SF-Bay.ORG> mykes@sega0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: >In article <5221@mindlink.UUCP> Robert_Salesas@mindlink.UUCP (Robert Salesas) writes: >>Better yet, why don't you wait for the add on CD player for the 500? >>It might be better than selling all and getting a CDTV. >> >>Rob >> >>-- >>\--------------------------------------------------------------------/ >>\ Robert Salesas + Usenet: Robert_Salesas@MINDLINK.UUCP / >>\ Eschalon Development Inc. + CIS: 76625,1320 BYTE: newdawn / >>\--------------------------------------------------------------------/ > >The key word you used is "wait". If the wait for the add on CD player for >the 500 is as long as it was for CDTV, then you will wait until 1999 :) ^^^^ > >-- >******************************************************* >* Assembler Language separates the men from the boys. * >******************************************************* Let's not exaggerate. Commodore isn't that slow. From the time CDTV was announced and til it showed up for sale, I think it's a vast improvement from back in the early days of the A1000. Besides, I'm saw a beta (?) of the A500 model in Amazing Computing, and it looks like they're working hard at putting them on the shelfs as fast as they can. The things is, Amiga technology is so awesome, we should give Commodore a break, and let them perfect their products. I'm sure they don't need their customers hanging over their backs, pressuring them to release garbage. That's happened to them too many times already, as I see it. -Simon -- * Simon Lee * Love SGI/VGX Systems. * * sulee@ucsd.edu * Amigas are for fun! * * simon@ivem1.ucsd.edu * Macs and IBM's are for ...? * *************************************************************************
hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Adam Hill) (03/28/91)
Why must people wait for a CD-ROM drive for a 500? All you need is
a 590, case, power supply and the CD-ROM Filesystem from HyperMedia
Concepts it might not be cheap or pretty but you will have it
!!!!!NOW!!!!!
And to some people that is the most important part......
(Just one person's opinion.)
--
adam hill -- hill@evax.uta.edu ASOCC - University of Texas at UTA
I programmed for three days Make Up Your Own Mind.. AMIGA!
And heard no human voices. Amiga... Multimedia NOW!
But the hard disk sang. - TZoP Born To Run SVR4mikep@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Mike Powell) (04/05/91)
Hey!!! Why the heck doesn't Commodore install DCTV's inside EACH CDTV! Or at least make it an option....! That would give CDTV's 16 million color capibility.... The cost of DCTV would be pretty small on such large quantities of CDTV's And since most CDTV's will be used with a normal color television, the DCTV would be right at home! OOPS... maybe the RGB connector isn't in the CDTV. That would be silly. Can someone tell me if CDTV has an RGB connector? Can you imagine some of the games/animations/maps/charts that would be possible if the DCTV decoder hardware was BUILT-IN to the CDTV!! What do y'all think? -Mike-