Haha that Gilligan's Island tune was one of the first mods I ever heard. I think it was included with a cheap set of PD disks I got from TLAS back in the 90s.
One cost you didn't mention is the cost of cutting a hole in your drywall to accommodate all that stuff hanging off the back for any standard-sized shelf. :D
Hi Doug! Nice video! F.y.i.- I used the very same SCSI2SD solution as you did (SCSI2SD Pocket Edition 5.5), 3 years ago in 2019, when I got my CDTV; and you helped me by the means of an older video where you demonstrated SCSI2SD setup and configuration. My CDTV is happily booting Workbench 1.3 Rev 34.34 from its SCSI2SD hard drive since 2019. I believe I never thanked you, but your SCSI knowledge helped me out. Thank you so much 😊 ❤
Awesome to see such a wonderful machine all decked out like you did here. And the funny thing is, I upgraded almost everything you did, except with completely different hardware - but that's also an incredible thing here in 2022 that there's so many different and new bits for this fairly rare beast. Respect to all those making these upgrades and thanks to you Doug for showcasing one of Commodore's most beautiful failures. :)
Thanks again for telling me about this lovely machine on eBay. I would have missed it! I really do like it a lot. I was looking at a 1991 AmigaWorld last night, and CD-ROM drives by themselves were selling for $500 to $600... I guess the $999 price was not to bad overall.
Great Vid Doug 👍🏻 Nice to see there are some great inventions now out there for the CDTV. I owned one back in 1992 I think? 🤔 I actually owned the CDTV, original Black Floppy drive, Mouse, keyboard (with black keys) and the Remote controller. I actually swapped it for a A500 when I upgraded to the A1200 at the time. Unfortunately I sold it all in 1997 when I was getting into PC builds 🙄 Back then I didn’t think much to the CDTV. The lacklustre software titles and the speed of the CD ROM drive (1x speed) didn’t do it for me. Glad to see things have moved on 🤗
Cool video Doug, and a beautiful machine the CDTV. Must get around to doing that live stream I've been threatening to do with my heavily upgraded one for the last 6 months, soon while it's all still relevant! :-)
Nice video ! I added a 68010 as well to my CDTV ;-) Being your "music hub" perhaps you should go the MIDI way also ? Afterall, The CDTV is the only(?) Amiga that came with built in Midi. Pair it up with a Roland of a synth ? Just an idea. Or launch some Scummvm games to listen to the midi sounds.
Wow... Where on earth would I put a MIDI keyboard? That would be pretty cool! I wonder if there were any cool MIDI compatible contraptions out there that are nice and small?
I am strongly considering it. If I want to use the latest MOD playing programs I really need a newer OS on it... I will probably consider a way to get her to at least 68020 performance, too.
I owned a CDTV back in the days, as they where sold for a low price with keyboard, mouse and dsik drive. Sadly I tinkered it to death back than and throw the CDTV away (I was young and stupid). But I still own keyboard and mouse. Last year I got a CDTV from eBay, with non working CD-drive (beyond repair), Joystick ports already inside, for less than 300$. So I am doing some mods now I wouldnt do on a working one: - Indivision ECS - Pistorm - IDE68K - Slim Slot-In drive At the moment I still use a Pi 3a for Pistorm, so I can not close the CDTV. I still search for my Pi zero 2, as you barly can buy one theese days. With the zero2 you can place it to the side of a pistorm without 40 pin connector for pi soldered, solder 40 short wires to connect them and use some epoxy to turn pistorm and pi one flat pcb. So it will fit nicely, with even enough space to fit an IDE68K between mainboard and pistorm (without IDE connector, you have to solder IDE cable). IDE68K of course needed for a slot-in CD/DVD slimline drive to be placed behind the caddy slot in the front plate. At the moment I just yesterday found a solution to connect such a notebook cd drive to an amiga (did the tests on my A2000 with buddha). This is not as easy as it sounds, as notebook cd-drives have no master/slave/CS jumper. Mode is set in firmware. Actually out of 6 different notebook drives just one worked on the buddha with a 50 pin to 40 pin adapter, after setting pin 28(CS) to ground. Sadly it was one with tray, not a slot-in. But the slot in drive was from an external usb drive, so obviously it worked a a single drive. With an SATA to IDE adapter 5 out of 6 notebook drives at least worked on my PC. I tryed different adapters, actually one branded "CSL" from Amazon worked. While it is a bidirectional adapter, a second one to convert buddas IDE to SATA did not. An older one from AliExpress did. So since last night I have 3 slimline slot-in drives which can work on Budda IDE in my A2000. Next step now is to get IDE68K with pistorm in the CDTV. I already pulled extra roms and CD-Controller chip, which solved the boot problem with IDE68k in a CDTV. Of course the CDTV is not a CDTV anymore. But it wasn't anyway without working original drive. At least it hopfully will become an powerfull Amiga. Why slim IDE slot in drive with converter to SATA and not directly a SATA one? IDE-Drives have audio out, SATA ones does not. And while it is not a CDTV anymore, it still looks like one, so it should be able to play audio. For Floppy Drive: There are these nice black flat USB diskdrives for PCs. They are used in DrawBridge. Internaly they use a 26pin FCC cable; same signals as the normal 34pin floppydrives, just some less ground lines and no second drive select line. As there are adapters to use external pc-diskdrives ob the amiga (to generate ready signal for example) I think they could be used on an Amiga/CDTV also. They are so thin, they nearly fit under the CDTV. Simply 4 extra rubber pieces under the feets of the CDTV and they would fit perfectly. Maybe two of theese drives, a gotek and a switch to select gotek or first diskdrive as df0 completly hidden under the CDTV?
Sounds like your CDTV is going to be awesome! I would love to see how she works after you are done! It's a shame that no one can find the Raspberry Pi's anymore.
![Commodore Amiga CDTV [PL] Stare komputery po polsku.](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/q-V6aUpS-xA/mqdefault.jpg)
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excellent CDTV 👍
Thanks! I have been having fun upgrading it.
It’s a happy Friday when a new 10MARC video comes out!
Well thank you! Enjoy!
Haha that Gilligan's Island tune was one of the first mods I ever heard. I think it was included with a cheap set of PD disks I got from TLAS back in the 90s.
I thought it was a lot of fun! Loved my some Gilligans Island.
One cost you didn't mention is the cost of cutting a hole in your drywall to accommodate all that stuff hanging off the back for any standard-sized shelf. :D
You have a point there... There is a bunch of stuff sticking out the back now!
damn always wanted a CDTV back when they first came out thanks for the great vid!
The price chased me away in 1991... But did did snap up the A570 and turned my Amiga 500 into a CDTV!
Hi Doug! Nice video! F.y.i.- I used the very same SCSI2SD solution as you did (SCSI2SD Pocket Edition 5.5), 3 years ago in 2019, when I got my CDTV; and you helped me by the means of an older video where you demonstrated SCSI2SD setup and configuration.
My CDTV is happily booting Workbench 1.3 Rev 34.34 from its SCSI2SD hard drive since 2019.
I believe I never thanked you, but your SCSI knowledge helped me out. Thank you so much 😊 ❤
So glad I helped you out! I really like the SCSI2SD solutions. They work really good. Glad to hear your CDTV works so well.
Awesome to see such a wonderful machine all decked out like you did here. And the funny thing is, I upgraded almost everything you did, except with completely different hardware - but that's also an incredible thing here in 2022 that there's so many different and new bits for this fairly rare beast. Respect to all those making these upgrades and thanks to you Doug for showcasing one of Commodore's most beautiful failures. :)
Thanks again for telling me about this lovely machine on eBay. I would have missed it!
I really do like it a lot. I was looking at a 1991 AmigaWorld last night, and CD-ROM drives by themselves were selling for $500 to $600... I guess the $999 price was not to bad overall.
Great Vid Doug 👍🏻 Nice to see there are some great inventions now out there for the CDTV. I owned one back in 1992 I think? 🤔 I actually owned the CDTV, original Black Floppy drive, Mouse, keyboard (with black keys) and the Remote controller. I actually swapped it for a A500 when I upgraded to the A1200 at the time. Unfortunately I sold it all in 1997 when I was getting into PC builds 🙄 Back then I didn’t think much to the CDTV. The lacklustre software titles and the speed of the CD ROM drive (1x speed) didn’t do it for me. Glad to see things have moved on 🤗
Back then I would have chosen an A1200 too. I am so thankful I held on to all my Amiga's back in the day!
Cool video Doug, and a beautiful machine the CDTV. Must get around to doing that live stream I've been threatening to do with my heavily upgraded one for the last 6 months, soon while it's all still relevant! :-)
Oh nice! Yes, do a Livestream! Did you upgrade the ROMS on yours? I am thinking about doing that.
@@10MARC Yep, both main and extended (3.2 & 2.35) so I could use an accelerator… added chip ram too. I’ll get my act together and do something soon 👍
@@Rip-Van-Tinkle I am tempted to get the 2.35 ROMS. All of the CDTV features seem to work with them, so I don't really see a down side to them.
Nice video ! I added a 68010 as well to my CDTV ;-) Being your "music hub" perhaps you should go the MIDI way also ? Afterall, The CDTV is the only(?) Amiga that came with built in Midi. Pair it up with a Roland of a synth ? Just an idea. Or launch some Scummvm games to listen to the midi sounds.
Wow... Where on earth would I put a MIDI keyboard? That would be pretty cool!
I wonder if there were any cool MIDI compatible contraptions out there that are nice and small?
@@10MARC I´ve bought a midi device from serdashop. Not taking much space at all 😊👍
hey! what is that wizard mouse ball diameters? i have ball but that is too small.
I am trying to measure the mouse balls, but he keeps biting me and running away!
Ok. I will try to measure it
Nice video :) Are you going to install CDTV OS 2.35 as well?
I am strongly considering it. If I want to use the latest MOD playing programs I really need a newer OS on it... I will probably consider a way to get her to at least 68020 performance, too.
Hi Doug!do you know if inside there is some special Dac o Philips Mechanism like in top cd rom players made by Philips in those years??
No I did not know that! Thanks!
@@10MARC mine is a question?😊🤔
@@fulviomarco3285 I see. I thought you were making a statement. The interface is a proprietary one made by Mitsumi
I owned a CDTV back in the days, as they where sold for a low price with keyboard, mouse and dsik drive. Sadly I tinkered it to death back than and throw the CDTV away (I was young and stupid). But I still own keyboard and mouse.
Last year I got a CDTV from eBay, with non working CD-drive (beyond repair), Joystick ports already inside, for less than 300$. So I am doing some mods now I wouldnt do on a working one:
- Indivision ECS
- Pistorm
- IDE68K
- Slim Slot-In drive
At the moment I still use a Pi 3a for Pistorm, so I can not close the CDTV. I still search for my Pi zero 2, as you barly can buy one theese days. With the zero2 you can place it to the side of a pistorm without 40 pin connector for pi soldered, solder 40 short wires to connect them and use some epoxy to turn pistorm and pi one flat pcb. So it will fit nicely, with even enough space to fit an IDE68K between mainboard and pistorm (without IDE connector, you have to solder IDE cable).
IDE68K of course needed for a slot-in CD/DVD slimline drive to be placed behind the caddy slot in the front plate.
At the moment I just yesterday found a solution to connect such a notebook cd drive to an amiga (did the tests on my A2000 with buddha). This is not as easy as it sounds, as notebook cd-drives have no master/slave/CS jumper. Mode is set in firmware. Actually out of 6 different notebook drives just one worked on the buddha with a 50 pin to 40 pin adapter, after setting pin 28(CS) to ground. Sadly it was one with tray, not a slot-in.
But the slot in drive was from an external usb drive, so obviously it worked a a single drive. With an SATA to IDE adapter 5 out of 6 notebook drives at least worked on my PC. I tryed different adapters, actually one branded "CSL" from Amazon worked.
While it is a bidirectional adapter, a second one to convert buddas IDE to SATA did not. An older one from AliExpress did.
So since last night I have 3 slimline slot-in drives which can work on Budda IDE in my A2000.
Next step now is to get IDE68K with pistorm in the CDTV. I already pulled extra roms and CD-Controller chip, which solved the boot problem with IDE68k in a CDTV.
Of course the CDTV is not a CDTV anymore. But it wasn't anyway without working original drive. At least it hopfully will become an powerfull Amiga.
Why slim IDE slot in drive with converter to SATA and not directly a SATA one? IDE-Drives have audio out, SATA ones does not. And while it is not a CDTV anymore, it still looks like one, so it should be able to play audio.
For Floppy Drive: There are these nice black flat USB diskdrives for PCs. They are used in DrawBridge. Internaly they use a 26pin FCC cable; same signals as the normal 34pin floppydrives, just some less ground lines and no second drive select line. As there are adapters to use external pc-diskdrives ob the amiga (to generate ready signal for example) I think they could be used on an Amiga/CDTV also. They are so thin, they nearly fit under the CDTV. Simply 4 extra rubber pieces under the feets of the CDTV and they would fit perfectly. Maybe two of theese drives, a gotek and a switch to select gotek or first diskdrive as df0 completly hidden under the CDTV?
Sounds like your CDTV is going to be awesome! I would love to see how she works after you are done! It's a shame that no one can find the Raspberry Pi's anymore.
Is there a keyboard equivalent or program I can run to switch from joy to mouse? I don't have a remote.
That is an excellent question... I have not seen one, but I will also look. So you have no control over your CDTV at all?
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I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.