I tried my hand at forth at college back in the 80s. Could never get my head around reverse polish notation 100%. Putting the operator before the values to be calculated just felt wrong and unintuitive. I'm sure there must have been a reason to do it that way (less memory maybe?) but I really couldn't get on with it. I never used or even clapped eyes on an Ace, I used forth on a homemade z80 based computer one of the tutors had built himself.

I like your videos

Defender of the crown looks amazing when i would see that on release day of the cdtv then i would buy one. As i remember the cdtv was not cheap and the games were not that cheap either. At that time nobody own a cd Burner so "copy games" was not that easy as floppy discs. So for me "as teenager' when the cdtv came out, it was a nogo for me. I just got my parents to buy an amiga500, computers were not that mainstream like today. Most adults think of them as expensive toys becouse they see no real useage. Nothing they could also do with a pen and paper... But for me it was so great times with the c64 and then amiga500 ... it was like a jump like from 560gt to 4080gtx all this digital sample sounds and the high Resolution with so many colors. Man such upgrade we will never have again and at its time this was hightech. Miss commodore so much

At and t dsp. Capable of 10 tracks pcm 44.1 plus stereo recording. THE AMIGA IS COMING.

XILINX is now AMD Devices.

This thing flop because they market it terrible and wasn't sure what to release

The amiga cd32 failed also

Provide the source documents and source code for that thing and I'll create one with modern parts and put it out there as open-source. I find it extremely difficult to believe that the parts are not available now. More likely this is exactly the same as a lot of other retro projects where the person gets bored and falls off the side of the planet never to be seen again lol! Or assuming the guy is hoarding everything like usual send one to me and I'll reverse-engineer it and add it to all the other hoarded projects i've reversed and open-sourced. Then you can make as many as you want for ~5 bucks each. But this thing is really not required. EPROMs are not rare or difficult to find. Even if that type is (which it isn't) just make a small board that will adapt any other type. I've produced and released as open-source several adapter boards to use as non-standard mask ROMs using a common EPROM and even used a common and cheap TSOP48 flash ROM on some of them. This is primarily for my area of expertise (arcade games) but they will work with any chip that requires the same type of ROM. As far as just replacing ROMs none of that is difficult or expensive. That thing you have is nice but it's way overkill for a kickstart ROM that might need to be updated once every 5 years assuming KS development continues. In reality even KS3.1 is good enough for most people and as far as games go nothing requires anything higher.

I knew they had to work out some solution for an old HDD click sound.

Nice one Wrangler 😊. Perhaps try the BlueSCSI version 2 as a comparison?

Brilliant video again =D

Can you tell the difference between a ZULU SCSI and a Blue SCSI?

For some reason there was a demo on the tape which came with the Ace and did autoplay, but I never found out how it did it. However, there was a system variable which could be used for an address to redirect the output, so maybe it wrote to that when it was loaded and redirected when it started to output "OK".

i love mine, rare machine now days, drives need a recap to keep running strong

Is there a way that you could get AES256 running on your AMIGA AA3000+ as that is required for encryption/decryption of the Broadband stream

Have you thought about getting an ASUSTEC EN9500GT?

if i understand it correctly, the DSP can only do 4 basic FP operations, very fast. No transcendental functions, no Fourier transforms, nothing that could be specifically related to signal processing. So why its called "DSP", why not just light-weight FPU or something?

Excellent! A very useful video for anyone wanting to get to grips with development for the DSP!

It's pretty impressive, shame it wasn't mainstreamed into the Amiga!

Can you port Quake 3 to it?

my brother had cd32 and cdtv me and my brother still say cdtv build better than cd32

if Commodore only add MIDI to early models - 1000, 500 and 2000 as standard, it would probably stay a bit longer. Btw. I had this machine, but some sales clever cnt sold it to my parents where in the same store they had 1200 for about the same price ...

No temp problem with it ? I have the tf1260 and in the a1200 case without a fan it's pretty warm inside (i have the indivision too).

Thank you for that Video, that Devices are so expensive today days.

We had a few developer versions of this. The later ones had kickstart 2 which never had an official public release. The project manager was Gail Wellington and the CDTV was referred to as the Commodore "Baby"

Instead of selling the CD player as peripheral for the Amiga they opted for a big expensive standalone box... How brilliant.

This bomb of a machine soaked up so much money and time that it delayed the launch of the Amiga 1200 (and may have even deprived us of a 16-bit audio chipset for the AGA machines). Between that and wasting time and money on the Amiga 600, C= really added delays onto delays for getting a follow-up chipset to ECS out stores (already long overdue). Ironically, you could attach a NEC external CD-ROM drive to an Amiga 500 or 2000 back when the CDTV was about to be launched making the CDTV pointless (except to check the "Set top box" item on the ol' computer manufacturer bucket list).

I'm annoyed that these came out when i was older i totally missed the Amiga/ST gen i was to busy being a adult to play games i had rent to pay.

Yes, it may have failed but man... I really want one. But they have skyrocketed in price, especially if you want the floppy drive, mouse, and keyboard with it. But yeah, still want one. :)

When the CDTV came out, it joined the likes of the CD-i in confusing the public. Nobody knew what the hell a "multimedia" machine was, or what you'd use it for. Hyping up digital encyclopedias and interactive maps didn't help. Everyone was afraid to call them game consoles, and the general public just scratched their head wondering why they'd want one. As for Defender of the Crown, I loved the graphics, but I sucked at the strategy part. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong, but every time I tried to move into another territory, I'd get slaughtered. I could never win the jousting, and I sucked at attacking castles, but I seem to recall winning the swordfights. Small tip: You're supposed to be moving forward, not retreating. ;)

I have to say that Defender of the Crown looked like it got a decent upgrade for CDTV, very nice animations for the sword fighting, and nice voice work. Obviously the downside is that the game is still just a collection of nicely presented mini-games, but it's nevertheless a good example of the sort of advantages CD-ROM could give to games at the time.

Is the Amiga only a British thing because I only hear British people ever talked about it and when anyone else talks about it they always mention something about Britain. Plus I've never known anyone to ever own any type of Amiga anything. And the games I see online look horrible.

I loved mine, I did only pay 30 quid for it though

The best thing on CDTV is Xenon II. The soundtrack with Bomb The Bass and also the fact that Colin can talk in English.

I had one, but it was a let down. To use it as an Amiga I had to disable the CDTV rom to have enough RAM. It did look extremely cool with the black keyboard and floppy drive and it was great it had MIDI. It should have had AGA an 020 and 2MB. Basically the CD32... The low spec is what sunk the sales and it's underpowered specs for its release date in the Netherlands made me sell it pretty fast for a PC.. ow.. and the missing joy ports.... OMG what a stupid decision. The remote just sucked extremely for gaming.

this is a great video, loved seeing inside of the CDTV, subbed!

I own a Commodore branded TV, but unfortunately I don’t own the CDTV. I guess I’ve got the next best thing….don’t I???

Junko

Thanks a lot. Great video :)

The keyboard connector is (AFAIK) the same formfactor as the 4000 uses, but the pinout is different. Because why not.

Nice, but I really wish someone would put up a KickSmash32 for sale...

the expansion port was for joystick ports also.. it was worth nothing without the joystick ports and a bit of mem expansion

Are those keyboard/mouse connecters possibly PS2?

It was clear that the CDTV simply couldn’t compeat with the likes of the sega genesis and snes. It was simply too bulky and expensive with a modest amount of games for it😟

Funny fact ....that is not an Amiga 😂.......as it can be seen at the front !

29:17 Not clear how to win swordfighting? Eh? You walk forward while pushing the guy up the staircase and you eventually wipe him out... really just push right and press button 1 quickly ;-)

Was the sort of thing I only ever saw in Comet. Fun to play with but no-one seemed to own one.

Nevertheless.

Commodore should have put a CDRom into the Amiga by default... but they never did....

Several thousand for an A500 with CD Drive = typical Commodore failure. I love that black floppy drive and keyboard and would love them for my ReAmigas in black cases. If I ever find a NOS CDTV I will probably pick one up. It was ahead of its time. Cool video. Maybe a future video on expansions for the CDTV?