Serial Port (DC25 Male)
The CDTV uses the same serial port found on all Amiga`s and most PC`s made in 1991.
An adapter can be purchaced from all good computer shops to change it to the 9 pin veriaty on most modern computers.
The serial port is fully compatiable with the PC standard and connecting items like modems, printers and digital camera`s.
The logo underneath the serial port is ment to represent a modem (Its a telephone with data being transmited over it) as this was and still is the most common use of the serial port.
Expect speeds of around 33.6Kb in normal operation.
The serial port complies to the RS232 standard.
- Pin 1: SHIELD (Shield Ground)
- Pin 2: TXD (Transmit Data)
- Pin 3: RXD (Receive Data)
- Pin 4: RTS (Request To Send)
- Pin 5: CTS (Clear To Send)
- Pin 6: DSR (Data Set Ready)
- Pin 7: GND (Ground)
- Pin 8: DCD (Carrier Detect)
- Pin 9: +12V (+12 Volt DC)
- Pin 10: -12V (-12 Volt DC)
- Pin 11: AUDO (Audio Out)
- Pin 12-17: N/C (Not Connected)
- Pin 18: AUDI (Audio into CDTV)
- Pin 19: N/C (Not Connected)
- Pin 20: DTR (Data Terminal Ready)
- Pin 21: N/C (Not Connected)
- Pin 22: RI (Ring Indicator)
- Pin 23-25: N/C (Not Connected)
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Parallel Port. (DB25 Female)
The Parallel port is one of the most used ports for adding upgrades to your CDTV. Printers, Scanners, Sound Capture cards, Video capture cards, networking and even Mp3 Decoder cards can be connected to this single port, The CDTV can use all devices that can connect to a standard Amiga`s parallel port.
- Pin 1: STROBE (Strobe when low)
- Pin 2: D0 (Data Bit 0 (LSB))
- Pin 3: D1 (Data Bit 1)
- Pin 4: D2 (Data Bit 2)
- Pin 5: D3 (Data Bit 3)
- Pin 6: D4 (Data Bit 4)
- Pin 7: D5 (Data Bit 5)
- Pin 8: D6 (Data Bit 6)
- Pin 9: D7 (Data Bit 7)
- Pin 10: ACK (Acknowledge When Low)
- Pin 11: BUSY (Busy)
- Pin 12: POUT (Paper Out)
- Pin 13: SEL (Select)
- Pin 14: +5V PULLUP (+5 Volts DC (10mA))
- Pin 15: Not Used
- Pin 16: RESET (Reset When Low)
- Pin 17-25: GND (Ground)
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Amiga R.G.B. Video port
All Amiga`s have a standard 23 pin video port, including the Commodore CDTV.
There are a selection of cables and cards which connect to this slot from a simple cable to connect it to any TV set with a Scart connector to a scan doubler card which will let you use standard PC monitors.
One of the more unusual expansions which use this port is the Graffito graphics card, It plugs in to the external port and gives you up to 256 colours on supported programs, It is a graphics card which connects to another graphics cards output.
- Pin 1: XCLK (28Mhz Genlock Clock)
- Pin 2: XCLKEN (Clock enable)
- Pin 3: BR Red
- Pin 4: BG Green
- Pin 5: BB Blue
- Pin 6: DI Intensity
- Pin 7: DB
- Pin 8: DG
- Pin 9: DR
- Pin 10: BCYSNC
- Pin 11: HSYNC (Horizontal Sync)
- Pin 12: VSYNC (Virtical Sync)
- Pin 13: DGND (Digital Ground)
- Pin 14: PIXELSW (Pixel Switch)
- Pin 15: CCR (When Low)
- Pin 16-20 : GND (Ground)
- Pin 21: -5V (-5V Power)
- Pin 22: +12V (+12V Power)
- Pin 23: +5V (+5V Power)
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Power Input (110V & 220/240V)
This is the standard power connector found on all modern PC`s and big box Amiga`s, This connector is found on NTSC and PAL CDTV`s.

At socket.
- Pin 1: +V In (+110/220/240 Volts)
- Pin 2: Gnd (Ground / Earth)
- Pin 3: -V In (-110/220/240 Volts
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Midi ports (In & out)
These two ports are used by certain electronic instruments but mostly electronic keyboards, It is used to send data either to or from (or both) the computer, This lets you compose music and save it on to the computer as well as alter or make a tune on the computer and download it back to the instrument for playback.
There are also CD+MIDI music CD`s which let you play along with the song with on screen promts.

At socket.
- Pin 1: Vcc (5V+)
- Pin 2: BTxD (Transmit Data line)
- Pin 3: Nc (?)
- Pin 4: RxD (Recive Data line)
- Pin 5: Gnd (Ground)
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Expansion slot
This slot is sometimes refered to as the SCSI slot, It is the main external expansion slot on the CDTV.
The only type of available card for this slot is an SCSI card but there were plans (And prototypes?) for a 2.5Mb Arcnet card.

- Pin 1-2: Gnd (Ground)
- Pin 3-4: Vcc (+5V power)
- Pin 5: D1 (Data bus, Line 1)
- Pin 6: D0 (Data bus, Line 0)
- Pin 7: D3 (Data bus, Line 3)
- Pin 8: D2 (Data bus, Line 2)
- Pin 9: D5 (Data bus, Line 5)
- Pin 10: D4 (Data bus, Line 4)
- Pin 11: D7 (Data bus, Line 7)
- Pin 12: D6 (Data bus, Line 6)
- Pin 13: SDReq (When low)
- Pin 14: INTS (When low)
- Pin 15: CSS (When low)
- Pin 16: SDACK (When low)
- Pin 17: IOR (When low)
- Pin 18: IOW (When low)
- Pin 19: A8 (Address bus, Line 8)
- Pin 20: 7M (7Mhz clock)
- Pin 21: A6 (Address bus, Line 6)
- Pin 22: A7 (Address bus, Line 7)
- Pin 23: A4 (Address bus, Line 4)
- Pin 24: A5 (Address bus, Line 5)
- Pin 25: A2 (Address bus, Line 2)
- Pin 26: A3 (Address bus, Line 3)
- Pin 27: IFRST (When low)
- Pin 28: A1 (Address bus, Line 1)
- Pin 29-30: Gnd (Ground)
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