Captain's Log / star date 2008.1130
I've spent quite some time the last couple of days playing games on my CDTV the way they should be played: with regular joysticks. The CDTV trackball is a wonderful device that adds functionality to the CDTV it should have had as standard, one of those being standard joystick ports, which Commodore didn't include on the main unit itself. I've expanded my CDTV with a genlock device which adds S-Video outputs. I've hooked up the CDTV to my HDTV using an S-Video lead and the picture quality is really excellent! I was worried the Amiga's graphics would look awful on such a high-res capable screen, but it looks great and the colours simply shine. Been playing lots of Pang and Jaguar XJ-220 and I'm currently looking into burning Secret of Monkey Island on CD to create a bootable CDTV title out of it. All harddrive installable games should be doable I suppose. Here's a couple of new photos of my CDTV.
Next week should be interesting, as I will be picking up a boxed (!) CDTV including boxed keyboard and diskdrive. CDTV's are pretty rare, so finding a boxed one is great! And yep, this haul includes a trackball controller! The new CDTV is not the only boxed CD-based Amiga I'll be adding to my collection, as I'm expecting some more stuff next week. Stay tuned ;-)
I also picked up a stack of Amiga Format mags and coverdisks from a local Amiga/C64 fan and came back a week later to pick up a remaining stack of CU Amiga's and coverdisks for a bargain. Lots of duplicate coverdisks in my collection now, but you can never have too many of those ;-)
