Photo Cds; Video Cds - Commodore Amiga CD32 Faq

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Q: Is it possible to display Photo CDs without expanding to a computer?
A: Yep, use one of these CDs before the Photo CD...
Weird Science Network CD
Photolite
Eureka
Olaf Barthel wrote:
In Winter 1994 I wrote a commercial program for this purpose. It can read both plain Photo
CDs (such as the golden Photo CD Master discs) and interactive Photo CD portfolio discs.
The program uses technology licensed from the Eastman Kodak Corporation. It is called
"FolioworX Player" and retails for about DM 100,-. Blittersoft is the official distributor in
the UK.
This is a quick description made after reading Asimware's info sheet (it's probably better to read the full
thing for yourself if you're interested before making up your mind):
Asimware's Photo CD Manager costs US $39.95/CDN $47.95 and works on the CD32 and
any Amiga with Kickstart 2 or above. It displays thumbnail images in groups of 10 on a sort
of tape deck display. From this you can choose one or as many pictures as you want and
view them as a slide show in any order. If you've got a CD32 or an AGA Amiga it displays
them in 262144 colours, otherwise 4096.
Q: What does the FMV cartridge do?
A: If you plug in the FMV cartridge, you can play Video CDs in almost the same way as you play
music CDs. It's really a 24 bit display card that can be genlocked with normal CD32 graphics, so you can
superimpose your own images over it (this is a feature of Video Creator, apparently). You may also view
the FMV tracks on certain discs like the Commodore Demo CD and Cannon Fodder from Sensible
Software. (See the actual clips at
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PHOTO-CDS

VIDEO CDS

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