@Fredslev
Nice to see that Gail Wellington is still around. Our dear Mother of Amiga :)
@8ightbytes186
Total respect for Gail Wellington....a Legend and an Iconic woman in the story of the CDTV Such an intimate inside take on the CDTV history...its inception, its launch, the marvel it was and, the ultimate failure it become.. Great Video Neil.
@GadgetUK164
Very cool! Enjoyed the Gail Wellington interview!
@ScrapKing73
I bought a CDTV back when it first came out. Since it was also my first CD player, the cost was much easier for me to justify.
@bcbock
The woman shown demoing a “Thinking Game” on the CDTV at CES was Laura Buddine of Tiger Media. Tiger developed two games for the CDTV. The one shown is The Case of the Cautious Condor. The other was Murder Makes Strange Deadfellows. Several years later, Laura became my mentor, employer, friend, and ultimately my business partner. We were in the process of recreating The Case of the Cautious Condor with new, more modern art for modern devices when she sadly passed away. I haven’t had the heart to continue that project. If she hadn’t died, she would have had a LOT of stories to tell you about CDTV and working with them. I’m glad you are documenting these things before everyone who worked on them passes. I’m ashamed to admit that when we cleaned out her house after she died, we threw out an old CDTV dev kit. I didn’t work on it, so I don’t know what was different. I do remember the funky remote control. This was before all the retro mania was obvious to us.
@noodles4773
gail wellington bless her heart still remembers past events,i just love these developer interviews it sheds light on the item we love created by them.
@bxlbjorn
My parents bought it for me when I was a kid. They were not affluent so it's amazing they actually did. Such memories
@craftsman123456
The CDTV really was ahead of its time. The set-top box of its day.
@Waccoon
I remember seeing demonstrations of the CDTV at a Commodore trade show (I believe this was in NY state). Even as a teenager, I was wondering who the target market was, regardless of price. I saw a few people from the trade show walking out with brand new CDTVs and I just shook my head. The real importance of this machine is the work Commodore did to cost reduce CD drives, which affected the whole industry. People tend to forget just how expensive data CD drives were in those days, especially the SCSI variety, which could fetch up to $1,000 USD.
@bazza5699
wow!! gail wellington.. incredible.. bet she had some amazing stories..
@tomduncan3547
We purchased one in Australia at a university to use it in teaching. We had to develop the software to create the material. Over a year we had a working version ready with one small problem. No-one in Australia could burn a disk for us. Do our 5 1/4" drive was packed up and sent to the UK to make two copies. These cost $100 each I think. It was then used to show the benifits of computer based learning. Soon after the Amiga was dead and the project scrapped. Sad ending to a top set of Machines. RIP
@carledwards9477
What a truly amazing story, and that you managed to get an interview with a key person: incredible! This is why your channel is well worth subscribing to and watching. So much invaluable information and some truly wonderful people!
@ScrapKing73
The stock A500 had the OCS chipset, and the CDTV had the ECS chipset. Combine that with the many hardware and philosophy differences, and I’d argue the CDTV is pretty much nothing like an A500 in a different case.
@kosmosyche
Looks so classy! I adore 90's design of electronics.
@andresbravo2003
A Mysterious Piece of Treasure... I really liked how Amiga CDTV was going to be a entertainment computer or maybe a game console before Amiga CD32 existed.
@75slaine
Great to hear directly from Gale, nice work Neil. I remember drooling over these in the high street store as a teenager. Really looking forward to the rest of this one 👍
@chrisransdell8110
Ooh a cliffhanger. And it was a treat hearing from Gail. I've heard her a few times and she seems like a fascinating person.
@lemagreengreen
I had no idea the CDTV looked that good, I never saw one in the flesh and always just heard how awful it was. It's got that high end 90s HiFi separate look down perfectly.
@stevenpurvey3775
Hi Neil, I am one of those strange people that bought one of these back in 1992. I wanted it badly when I first saw it in Dixons coupled to a black keyboard, black mouse, black floppy and black SCSI hard drive (a huge 40Mb as I recall). So I bought the whole lot in one go at an outrageous price (my brain has repressed the memory of the price, but it was under £1000). After over 20 years in a cupboard, I connected it all together last year to see if it still worked and amazingly... ... it did! Even the hard drive burst into life - amazing. Good luck with your latest project; I look forward to part 2. And you are right, the SCSI card goes in the back expansion port. -Steve
@PeTTs0n88