Future Doug has got a sort of star trek '60s vibe, i imagine people in the sixties all thought in the future we would wear shiny things like that 😂

@10MARC

21 күн бұрын

Maybe we will see "Future Doug" again. I was glad to see I don't age too badly in the distant future.

Commodore CDTV. Bucket list updated. That S-Video was seriously nice.

@10MARC

21 күн бұрын

Nice! Enjoy your CDTV!

Would really love a CDTV-CR. If only they released it instead of the original. It would've been a LOT more successful.

@10MARC

22 күн бұрын

Very true. I can't imaagine more than a few prototypes were ever made. I still like my CDTV, though.

Great video! You have many cool retro stuffs in your home. Keep it up my friend 🥰 ❤️ 🙏

Never had CDTV, would be cool to own. Cool video!

Great video as always Doug. I did see a CDTV specific version of the TF536 on Amibay awhile back. I don't have a CDTV, so did not look in to it too much. Maybe it was designed a bit different to fit the CDTV better.

@10MARC

19 күн бұрын

Someone messages me about that on Facebook! It looks pretty useful - the IDE is positioned sideways instead of vertical.

21:55 Looks like you just need a hood scoop, Doug!

@10MARC

21 күн бұрын

That would look pretty sweet!

Thank you Doug excellent learning Video. Cheers

@10MARC

22 күн бұрын

Happy to do it! I have been meaning to do this upgrade for about 8 months now.

Hey Doug, I'd love to see some games and software running on the CDTV that take advantage of the 030, have you tried games like Citadel (ReMonstered), Nemac IV, even ADoom running in Extra HalfBright mode would be interesting to see.

@10MARC

22 күн бұрын

I will have to try some out!

More CDTV ❤

@10MARC

20 күн бұрын

I have a bunch of fun with mine. More videos to come!

The CDTV does have two awesome examples of what might have been. Defender of the Crown CDTV with its spoken narrative and Xenon II megablast with Colin the shopkeeper and the soundtrack are excellent examples of ‘multimedia’. If just they could have added more gameplay into DOFTC and improved the hitbox detection in Xenon II. Perhaps this could be retrospectively improved?

@10MARC

21 күн бұрын

Good examples for sure. I just love the Xenon II soundtrack! There were a couple titles that were "Almost there" - but I suppose companies were dealing with new technologies and limited budgets

CDTV was another lost opportunity for C=. Might have been good. Thanks for the vid.

@10MARC

21 күн бұрын

The price shocked a lot of us back in the early 90's... But if you look back just buying a CD-ROM for a PC could set you back $500. It was all so new then too - software publishers just did not know how to take advantage of that space and power. Not sure if they do even today!

Two possibilities on the RAM expansion issue: 1. You had a bad connection (it happens) 2. The new ROMs and/or Workbench needed to configure for the upgrade card "on installation" and thus didn't agree with having it installed already. Number 2 is one that a lot of auto-detect systems suffer, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. p.s. might be fun to upgrade that video RAM to 2MB if you can find a way. Also, seeing if you can wire in RGB output and program in the appropiate scanlines and output gamma for ATSC video. As a note, you can create a lateral extender for the IDE header that will offset it horizontally and lower it.

@10MARC

22 күн бұрын

I am leaning a bit towards the underused expansion port just passing signals from the 68000 socket, and when a 68030 is introduced maybe the wrong data is passed. It continues to work great when I just have the 68000 installed.

press the ESC button on the cdtv remote control and see what happens

@10MARC

20 күн бұрын

I will have to try that out

Love how the languages options say America not English.

@10MARC

13 күн бұрын

Now it should be changed to 'Murican and have an eagle and a flag on it

Looks like a cool upgrade, but I really like having the lid on my CDTV and the dust bunnies on the floor where they belong. ;)

@10MARC

22 күн бұрын

Oh for sure! I have to figure a way to keep the TF 536 low enough to close the lid. My CDTV is part of my entertainment center and needs to look pretty!

@LeftoverBeefcake

22 күн бұрын

Sordan has "Amiga 500 68000 Straight CPU Processor Riser Relocator Adapter" I'd drop some links but KZread seems to hate them. :(

Why bother with the 8mb once you have the TF? Just curious. Also “future doug” has the best clothes I’ve ever seen!!!!

@iamdkk

22 күн бұрын

The 8MB will just slow down your system. So it's pointless.

@10MARC

22 күн бұрын

Just because I suppose. Not sure what else I would do with it. And 72 MB of FAST RAM is way cooler than 64 MB! The Tinfoil shirt was OK on Future Doug, but his pants were straight from a Raider from Fallout.

@10MARC

22 күн бұрын

Maybe... But with how Amiga prioritizes RAM it should not make much difference.

@NozomuYume

21 күн бұрын

@@10MARC You want the RAM board in for the SCSI controller. The SCSI controller can't see the 32-bit RAM so it will DMA into slow chip ram without the 24-bit fast RAM installed.

What tv are you using Doug?

@10MARC

22 күн бұрын

That is a Sony Bravia from about 2007. It is quite nice!