From: ganoe@sde.mdso.vf.ge.com (Craig Ganoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: What are the CDTV titles now available??? A list anyone?
Keywords: CDTV
Date: 1 Oct 92 19:15:26 GMT
Organization: GE M&DSO - VF

In article <92273.131954IO00844@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>, IO00844@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (((ZERO))) writes:
> I'm sure there is a list somewhere of the CDTV titles currently available, but
> I've searched and found nothing.
>
You should get a color catalog and price list with your CDTV.

> If anyone has heard of any good CDTV versions of current Amiga games or
> stand alone CDTV game titles (are there any?) let me know.
>
Sim City is excellent.

> Also, if you could note any major differences between CDTV game versions and
> regular amiga versions it would be greatly appreciated (music/graphics/extras).
> 
It (Sim City) was completely rewritten for CDTV. CDTV style interface instead of
windows (I've never used the Amiga version, so I'm going from seeing the box
for it.), better graphics, different graphics for different eras (medevial,
wild west 1800's, and future along with the original modern), a CD soundtrack
and sounds that match with the era, and it supports languages set in the CDTV
defaults screen (text only, I think, but as far as I remember only one song
in the soundtrack has lyrics, in English). You can save cities to RAM card or
disk (with a 'k' as in floppy).

> I ordered a CDTV last Sunday 
>
congrats!

> and just found out Commodore no longer offers any software with this
> machine as of July. (They used to offer Lemmings and an Encyclopedia,
> I guess?).
>
That's too bad, they're a great pair of titles to sell the machine with.
The encyclopedia was good, but I'm not sure if a lot of people would just
buy it if it was up to them to decide. Lemmings is a must have, but if you
have the Amiga version, I'm not sure if there's a difference between them.

> I also called today to find out the shipment is on hold due to the company
> being out of stock of the Keyboard/Mouse/Drive packages.
> 
This happened to me too, took an extra week to get it. I think Commodore may
have gotten more orders for the Pro Packages than they expected.

> I am also interested in any amiga applications for this machine as well
> (thesaurus', dictionary, atlas', etc.) Anything. Thanks.  E-mail please.
>
Those are available as CDTV apps too. American Heritage Dictionary is available,
I've never used it, but it was reviewed in .info issue #49, they seemed to like
it. I've used the world atlas title that's available, and from what I've heard
the American atlas title that's available is similar. Basically it's a digitized
collection of every paper map of every country. You could scroll around, click
on citys to get a city map. Text info along with some graphics (I think, I'm not
sure about the graphics) was available about each country. Also, for each
country, it told you what language was spoken there and had digitized recordings
of quite a few phrases in each language that you could play.

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