CD-ROMs will now boot even without CDTV.tm file.

CD+G functionality restored for CDTV players.

Memory card support restored for CDTV players.

Support for systems with 32-bit Fast RAM.

So what new stuff does CDTV OS 2.35 bring to the table? Well, it fixes a couple of long standing bugs which have plagued CDTV owners for many years and it throws a couple of small improvements into the mix for good measure! Here’s what has changed compared to the last known original Commodore ROM release (2.30) from 1992:

Official distribution might be possible in the future, but for now, this is the best I can do without breaching copyright. Due to copyright reasons, it is currently only available in patch form on GitHub. It’s a custom, unofficial ROM and is available now, free of charge. It is the result of many man hours of disassembling, reverse engineering, problem solving and creating a stable build environment that can serve as a foundation to move things forward for CDTV in the 21st century. CDTV OS 2.35 is an entirely community driven project. Today, I am proud to announce a new version of the CDTV OS: 2.35. Basically it’s all the extra system software needed that makes a CDTV (or A570 or A690) work like a CDTV!Ĭoming soon to a CDTV near you CDTV OS 2.35 It contains a driver for the CD-ROM drive, a CD filesystem library, a driver for bookmarks/cardmarks, the CD audio player application, the CDTV Preferences application and much more. The CDTV Extended ROMs (or CDTV OS ROMs for short) are the extra chips inside a CDTV player that contain additional system software specific to the CDTV. The Kickstart ROM is a chip in every Amiga that contains many of the system software components that make up the Amiga operating system.

Thankfully, things are about to change… Time for something new All these versions have their bugs and compatibility issues, especially if you want to upgrade your CDTV player beyond its original stock configuration of Kickstart 1.3 and 1MB of Chip RAM. There is the original 1.0 ROM and the later version 2.7 or 2.30 ROMs and some ROM hacks that followed in later years. For 30 years now CDTV owners have had to settle for the original Extended ROMs from the early 1990s.

Kickstart 1.3 rom download