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[orange]

Have you tried this hack to add standard Amiga mouse and joystick to CDTV?
If I understood correctly I only need DIP socket that will sit between soldered one and the chip.

Do I buy just standard 40 pin DIP socket, same as soldered one? (I think I have some 'pro' types with 'round legs')

[DrDekker]

The standard socket will be fine - but since you already have the better quality (round leg type) socket - use that instead.

[damiraga]

I've done this hack on two of my CDTVs (I sold one).
I would suggest you go for the 'pro' type socket, as it makes the job a bit easier. At the same time, I added two toggle switches. The first one allows me to switch between CDTV boot ROMs and standard 1.3 ROM. The other one allows me to switch between PAL and NTSC modes (I think this switch had to be 3PDT On-On switch).
The CDTV has both PAL and NTSC oscillators built-in, so with this switch you get true PAL or true NTSC system. Of course, this works only with RGB monitor that supports these modes. Your CDTV RF card or your Genlock only work in the mode they were designed for.

Here is a photo of the connectors and switches on the back of CDTV.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dadica/ebay/cdtv3.jpg"

The other two photos show CDTV booting natively and with Kickstart1.3.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dadica/ebay/cdtv4.JPG"
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dadica/ebay/cdtv5.JPG"

[JJ]

@ damiraga

All the links you posted to the pictures are broken

[damiraga]

Sorry! I don't have much experience posting links, so here we go again:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dadica/ebay/cdtv3.jpg
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dadica/ebay/cdtv4.JPG
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dadica/ebay/cdtv5.JPG

[Amigoat]

Hi - do you have any info you can pass along an the actual internal mods?

Ernie