CDTV (Kickstart v34.5)
Release date: 1991 New software only
Shipped with: CDTV units only
Major enhancements:
  • CD Audio, CD+G (CD and Graphics) player
  • Card slot for saving game data
  • Boot from CD's

Screenshots:

Boot ScreenCD PlayerPrefs
Media information:

Descriptions & Part Numbers

One CD-ROM
CDTV Multimedia Demo Disc
PN: AU0400B
Hidden messages:

(precise details/screenshots pending)

Go to the Preferences screen, select a language, then push the up/down arrows according to the pattern of text on the remote control. This Easter Egg changes the language choices to the people responsible for the CDTV.

This Easter Egg also exists in the CD32, with the opposite sequence showing the newer people responsible for it as well.

Notes/comments:
  1. Ross Vumbaca notes: "the CD32 has two sets of ROMs; Kickstart 1.3 ROMs, and special "CDTV ROMs". The screenshots shown above are from the CDTV ROMs and not Kickstart 1.3 (naturally). These special ROMs were also present in the "A570 CD-ROM drive" from Commodore. This drive was a side bus expansion for the A500(+) and produced the same boot-up screens, etc. on the A500--which in effect made it a CDTV."
  2. Amiga of Minnesota Interest Groups Alliance (A.M.I.G.A.) has obtained the only license to provide the hardware to upgrade the CDTV to OS 3.1. This involves changing 2 PROMs in the CDTV, and installing the 3.1 OS ROM at the same time. The machine will then boot to 3.1 from floppy with the CD drive active. It can also boot to 3.1 from the CD drive, but will reboot when the "eject" button is pressed. The upgrade will work in ALL CDTV's that do not have the upside down Flash ROM Board, which was the unit released to developers. For further information, contact Ben Deemer, with "CDTV Upgrade" as the subject.
  3. Although CDTV units were supposedly Kickstart/Workbench 1.3 only (the majority of software written for the CDTV was programmed with only 1.3 in mind), some are capable of running WB 2.04+. However, Ben Vost notes that: "Although some CDTV's could be upgraded to Workbench 2.04 or higher, there were a lot sold in the UK that couldn't. Unfortunately the only way to find out was to open up the machine and try an A500 Kickstart 2 chip (37.175) and see if it worked. It didn't on mine, which was one of the first machines in the country."
  4. CDTV ROM Chip Part Number: 315093-02