Recently I was browsing through the CDTV section of the AMIGA developer CD v1.2 and found something 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.

The following tools are included:

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.

	an Amiga