CDTVTools

Short:        Original CDTV tools for your Amiga
Author:       Andreas.Falkenhahn@gmx.de (Andreas Falkenhahn)
Uploader:     Andreas Falkenhahn gmx de (Andreas Falkenhahn)
Type:         util/cdity
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

  General notes: · Installation is necessary before the first usage
                 · Send me feedback if you like this and want to see
                   more work from me (!important!). If I don't see
                   that my work is useful for some people, I have
                   better things to do, so....show me some support!!


  Introduction:

  Recently I was browsing through the CDTV section of the AMIGA 
  developer v1.2 and found some very interesting. Documentation
  and developer files for the playerprefs.library which is the
  software heart of every CDTV. The library controls the various
  bonus functions of the CDTV which normal Amigas don't have. So
  I browsed through the documentation of this library and created
  some commodities which provide functions from this library to
  every Amiga user.

  I created the following commodities:

  CDPlayer: The original CDTV audio cd player. Currently only working
            with a cdtv.device emulation (e.g. AsimCDFS).

  CDTVPrefs: The original CDTV preferences program. Not very useful but
             nice to see.

  JoyMouse: Allows you to control your mouse by joystick. Some times
            useful especially for the original CDTV :-)

  KeyClick: Very cool. Installs a sound for every key/mouse action.

  ScreenSaver: This commodity is the very best. It allows you to have
               the original CDTV screen saver on your Amiga system. 
               Very cool, check it out!
     
  Additionally there's a tool called Info which I added just for fun.

  I also added locale.library support for all these commodities including
  developer files and German catalogs. The audio cd player and the
  preferences screen also had to be degraded in order to be displayed
  properly. The screen saver however runs fine in all modes.

  Please note that all these commodities above are only small programs
  which access the playerprefs.library and call its functions. The
  library was developed by Silent Software Ltd for Commodore International.
  It is (C) Copyright by Commodore. 

  In the CD32 there's also a library in the ROM which controls the
  gracious boot introduction and the stuff. But there is neither a
  documentation nor a disk version of the library available, so it
  won't be possible to do a sort of 'CD32Tools' although it would
  be very cool, because the CD32 introduction is much better than
  the CDTV one.

  Please send me some feedback if you like this collection of tools.