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Страница 1: ...AMIGA User s Guide 570 CD ROM Drive ...

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Страница 3: ...ices or equipment including third party optional devices or equipment should be performed by an authorized Commodore dealer service center UNAUTHORIZED INSTALLATION OR SERVICING MAY VOID YOUR WARRANTIES This manual provides a general description ofvarious product configurations andfeatures currently plannedfor inclusion in Commodore s product line The configurations andfeatures described may not b...

Страница 4: ...ause interference the user is encouraged to correct the interference by one of the following means Reorient the receiving antenna or AC plug Change the relative positions of the computer with respect to the receiver Plug the computer into a different outiet so the computer and receiver are on different branch circuits CAUTION Only peripherals with shielded ground cables computer input output devic...

Страница 5: ...s 2 3 Power Connection 2 6 3 BASICS 3 1 The Disc Caddy 3 1 Amiga CDTV odes 3 2 Screen Saver 3 4 Compatibility Switch 3 5 4 CDTV MODE 4 1 Loading a Compact Disc 4 2 Emulating the Remote Controller 4 3 Preferences Control Screen 4 6 CD Audio Control Screen 4 9 5 AMIGA MODE 5 1 CD ROM Access 5 1 Workbench Access 5 2 Shell Access 5 3 File Conversion 5 4 6 EXPANSION OPTIONS 6 1 ...

Страница 6: ... its connector enters and seats fully in the Amiga s expansion slot The two wuts should fit snugly together II Use the audio cable that came with the CD ROM drive to connect the Amiga to the CD ROM drive Plug one end into the Amiga s audio out jacks and the other end into the CD ROM drive s audio in jacks II Plug the cable from your audio system stereo system self powered speakers monitor etc into...

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Страница 9: ...he disc was produced with another computer platform in mind as long as the disc is in the industry standard ISO 9660 format Considering that each CD ROM contains up to 600 megabytes of information on topics such as demographics history finance and geography the CD ROM drive certainl is a valuable and powerful addition to your system Ihe CD ROM drive installs easily No software installation is requ...

Страница 10: ...is less than 1047520 you may not have enough chip RAM to run some CDTV applications Contact your Commodore dealer about adding more RAM or reallocating the memory you have What s in the Box In addition to this manual the following items should be in the CD ROM drive box the CD ROM drive a power supply unit with attached power cables a stereo audio cable warranty information You may also have recei...

Страница 11: ...Introduction 1 3 The CD ROM drive cd caddy 4 slot headphone jack headphone volume compatibility switch power light eject button busy light ...

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Страница 13: ...improper installation Never connect or disc nnect anything from the Amiga s expansion connector or from any other ports while the power is on Attaching the CD ROM Drive Once you have disconnected the power from the Amiga place the Amiga on a flat level surface with the area to the left of the computer unobstructed Remove the plastic access plate that covers the Amiga s expansion slot Place the CD ...

Страница 14: ...miga While holding the Amiga so that it does not slide apply firm pressure so that the CD ROM drive connector seats fully in the Amiga expansion slot When fully seated the right side of the CD ROM drive should fit snugly against the left side of the Amiga ...

Страница 15: ...ing the CD ROM drive between the Amiga and the sound system that the Amiga is currently hooked up to When the CD ROM drive and your Amiga are connected this way the Amiga s audio and the CD audio are mixed within the CD ROM drive The mixed audio is then fed through the CD ROM drive s output jacks to your audio system This allows you to use a single set of speakers to hear all the sound generated b...

Страница 16: ...ga audio input Sounds generated by the Amiga come into the CD ROM unit through these jacks Use the cable included with the CD ROM drive to connect the two units Plug one end of the cable into the audio output jacks on the rear of the Amiga you will probably have to remove plugs you currently have in those jacks Plug the other end of the cable into the audio input jacks on the rear of the CD ROM dr...

Страница 17: ...les that you removed from the Amiga a1 ldio output jacks these should connect on the other end to a monitor stereo system or something else that contains speakers and plug them into the CD ROM drive s audio output jacks right hand set of jacks on the rear of the CD ROM drive This completes the audio installation Other Audio Options If you wish to keep the CD audio separate from Amiga audio simply ...

Страница 18: ... information about this function Power Connection Now that the CD ROM drive has been attached to the Amiga and the desired audio connections made the power supplies can be connected With the power switch turned OFF reconnect the Amiga power supply to the back of the computer and insert the plug into a three prong AC outlet Connect the proper end of the CD ROM drive s power cable to the receptacle ...

Страница 19: ...cidental damage to its surface The Disc Caddy squeeze these corners to open metaltab IMPORTANT You must use a disc caddy to insert a compact disc in the CD ROM drive Never insert a disc without a caddy into the CD ROM drive s front slot Without a caddy a disc will not play and could be difficult to remove from the unit without causing damage ...

Страница 20: ...at you use often are available from your authorized Commodore dealer part CD 1400 Compatibility Switch Some Amiga software particularly games may not boot properly when equipment such as the CD ROM drive is attached to the Amiga expansion slot If this problem occurs you can temporarily disable the CD ROM drive with the compatibility switch To the system the CO RaM drive will appear to be disconnec...

Страница 21: ...lems with expanded systems should work properly If you have booted the system with the CD ROM drive disabled turning the headphone volume knob clockwise won t re enable the unit You need to turn the headphone volume knob on and reboot the Amiga before the CD ROM drive will work again Amiga CDTV Modes Your Amiga CD ROM system has two basic modes of operation Amiga mode and CDIV mode In general when...

Страница 22: ...e replaced by the animated COTV prompt screen a laser beam reflecting off a compact disc and illuminating the COTV logo When the COTV prompt screen appears you can either boot the system into COTV mode or Amiga mode Chapters 4 and 5 cover this in more detail but the basic ways to enter into COTV or Amiga CD ROM modes are To get into COTV mode insert a bootable disc in a disc caddy see warning abov...

Страница 23: ...ices in this order 1 floppy disk in OFO 2 COTY application disc 3 SCSI device attached to the CD ROM drive e g an autobooting hard drive 4 CD audio disc For example if both a bootable floppy disk and a CDTV disc are inserted in their respective drives at power up the Amiga CD ROM system will boot into Amiga mode using the floppy disk If more than one bootable SCSI device e g two hard drives and a ...

Страница 24: ...ut not booted by either a compact disc a Workbench floppy or a SCSI device the corv screen saver will appear on the monitor after a pre set period of time This bouncing rotating corv logo will protect your screen from burn in Inserting a compact disc or floppy disk or touching the mouse or any key exits the screen saver You can set the amount of time that passes before the screen saver takes effec...

Страница 25: ...ote control dedicated audio CD control buttons Play FF etc fluorescent display Personal Memory Card slot RF or composite video output to TV or VCR MIDI ports Functional equivalents to most of these items are already a part of the Amiga to which the CD ROM drive is attached For instance the Amiga keyboard and mouse can be used by CDTV applications in place of the CDTV remote control and CD audio co...

Страница 26: ...e CD Audio Control screen will automatically appear This screen is described in a later section entitled The CD Audio Control Screen If the disc is a non CDTV CD ROM the CDTV logo will turn to shades of red to indicate that the disc doesn t include the data needed to boot the system These CD ROM discs if they are in the ISO 9660 format are accessible through the Workbench and Shell when the Amiga ...

Страница 27: ...th your Amiga can serve the same purpose CDTV Remote Controller Commodore CDrv REMOTE CONTROLLER dose 0 Ese GENLOCK MV 0i 0 0 0 0 0 0 II A B REW PLAViPAUSE ff 0 0 0 0 0 D L J 0 0 ENTER OP 0 0 0 In many cases it will be fairly obvious how to use the mouse and keyboard instead of the CDTV remote but there are some operations that need explanation The chart on the next page shows how Amiga keyboard a...

Страница 28: ...a right mouse button STOP F1 REW F2 PLAY PAUSE F3 FF F4 PAUSE F5 Note that in some CDIV applications the mouse may not do what you expect The way the A Bbuttons and the cursor buttons on the remote are defined by CDIV applications is somewhat different from the way the mouse and its buttons are used by the Amiga Experiment with the mouse and or consult your CDIV application s manual help text or t...

Страница 29: ...ator you already have connecting the two should provide this function JOY MOUSE The JOY MOUSE button determines whether the remote s cursor buttons respond as a joystick or as a mouse This is not necessary with an Amiga CD ROM system since you will actually be using a joystick or a mouse not emulating one Just connect whichever input device your CDTV application requests joystick or mouse to the A...

Страница 30: ... saver delay time button beep on off screen mode interlace non interlace native language You can get to the CDTV Preferences program when either the CDTV logo or the screen saver screen are displayed To call up the CDTV Preferences screen a click the right mouse button once or b press Return or c press Right Alt Right Amiga Whatever image is on the screen will disappear and in a few seconds the Pr...

Страница 31: ...hen you are done with all the options press Return on the Amiga keyboard or the Enter key on the keypad to save the settings Then click the right mouse button or press Right Alt Right Amiga to exit the COTV Preferences screen and return to the intro screen The settings you made will be put into effect for that session and used in future sessions even if you turn your system off Each option is desc...

Страница 32: ...reen image the diamond shaped indicator on the screen grid will turn red Then use the cursor keys or mouse to move the indicator and change the screen centering This setting only affects screens related to the CD ROM drive or CDTVapplications Setting Screen Saver Delay Time This lets you set the length of time the CDTV logo screen will sit idle before the screen saver takes over Click the left mou...

Страница 33: ...d screen mode Ihis setting affects CDIV applications only Setting Button Beep As an audio cue to let you know that a response has registered the CDIV software can produce a beep whenever you press a key Click the left mouse button or press Return to toggle this option on or off CD Audio Control Screen Audio compact discs have a different format than CDIV application discs When you insert an audio ...

Страница 34: ...ys or the mouse to move the animated highlight to the desired tile The symbols on the tile will be highlighted in yellow when the icon has been selected When the option you want is highlighted click the left mouse button or press Return Some of the options can also be activated with the function keys F keys on the Amiga keyboard These are indicated in the follow ing chart ...

Страница 35: ...the numbers of the tracks and the order in which they will be played On the sample screen shown on page 4 10 the 12 tracks will be played in numerical order If a disc has more than 20 tracks the track numbers above 20 will not be displayed at first there are only 20 spaces on the grid These tracks will scroll into view when you move down to the bottom of the grid If you want to re arrange the orde...

Страница 36: ...ay the tracks in random order for listening variety When you select this button a new track order is generated and then displayed on the track grid above it Selecting this button a second time will put the tracks back in numerical sequence Selecting it a third time will generate a new shuffle Keyboard equivalent F7 Program Clear The icon to the right of Shuffle Play is the Program Clear button Sel...

Страница 37: ... track and proceeding in the order shown in the Track Grid Selecting this button while the CD is playing will pause the current track Reselecting this button or selecting the Pause button will resume play Keyboard equivalent F3 Next track FF Briefly select this button to skip forward one track in the sequence displayed in the Track Grid The number in the Track Display will change appropriately Sel...

Страница 38: ...ghted loop arrow the CD will automatically start over when the last track ends You can also use the Loop button to define a smaller loop When you select the Loop button while the CD is playing you define the start point of the loop The button symbol will change to a double arrow with the left hand arrow highlighted but the track will continue to play normally Select the button again when you wish ...

Страница 39: ...electing the Time Display Mode button will cycle through these options time elapsed in the current track default time remaining in the current track time elapsed since the beginning of the CD time remaining in the entire CD The symbol on the button changes to indicate the current mode Keyboard equivalent F6 CD G CD MIDI The button in the lower right corner is the CD G CD MIDI button Select this bu...

Страница 40: ...r in the lower right corner of the screen When a CD MIDI channel is played the MIDI data is passed to the Amiga serial port and the audio plays normally You must have a MIDI interface attached to the Amiga serial port to make use of the MIDI output Once you are at the CD G and CD MIDI screen you must reboot the system to return to the main CD Audio Control screen ...

Страница 41: ...e will not allow your Amiga to run programs designed for other computers but it will make it possible to read the data files that form the bulk of CD ROM storage It is also possible to play audio CDs while in Amiga mode by using the COPlay utility included with the CD ROM drive See the accompanying disc documentation for further information CD ROM Access To access a CD ROM you must first boot the ...

Страница 42: ...been disabled with the compatibility switch turn off the Amiga turn the compatibility switch on and turn the system back on Once you have booted into Amiga mode the CD ROM drive is recognized by the system as a standard disk device just like your floppy or hard drive except that it is always read only If you attempt to write to a compact disc the operation will be blocked and you ll see the messag...

Страница 43: ...ting that the disc is write protected If you use earlier versions of Workbench you cannot view icons for files unless the files were written with the Amiga in mind You will need to use the Shell to manipulate these files that you will find oli non Amiga specific CD ROM discs Shell Access The device name for the CD ROM drive is CDO Use CDO or the volume name of the disc as the first part of a path ...

Страница 44: ...on CD ROMs Some Amiga applications have built in conversion modules to load formats other than IFF If the application you are using does not have such a facility you will have to use a conversion program to translate the file into an accessible form Several conversion programs are available contact your local Amiga dealer for recommendations CD ROM data may also be stored in a compressed format To...

Страница 45: ...h the expansion units Memory Module A Commodore Memory Module adds 2 megabytes of fast RAM to your Amiga CD ROM system Consult your local dealer for more information about this device Plug in Expansion Units An expansion slot on the rear of the CD ROM drive allows you to tie your system to other systems or add peripherals Each of these optional devices comes in tpe form of a cartridge that can be ...

Страница 46: ... write storage capacity that can be necessary to make full use of CD ROM data sources Each drive has an built in autobooting controller Contact your Commodore dealer for more information about these or other expansion devices as they become available ...

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