Phase 5 Blizzard CDTV. Name the biggest Amiga CPU upgrade designer and you will answer Phase 5 (Oh yes you will), They gave the Amiga 1200, 3000 & 4000 some of the best CPU upgrades in the world, The last being the Cyberstorm PPC card that gave the A4000 a 64Bit PPC CPU clocking 233Mhz with a 68060 @ 50Mhz, Capable of holding 128 Meg of fast ram, Onboard SCSI 3 interface and more so wouldnt it be great if they had designed a CPU upgrade for the CDTV? Well they did.... The CDTV CPU upgrade may not be as fancy as the Cyberstorm but it was ultra-compaiable with the original CDTV CPU (A 7.14Mhz 68000), It was a 12Mhz 68000 CPU. OK now I know what you are all saying, You wanted it to be a 233Mhz PPC but sorry that wouldnt be very compatiable now would it. :) The 68000 CPU range has been the most developed Motorola CPU and while there were others in the 68000 range (68020, 68030 and so on) the 68000 is what started it all so Motorola kept developing it, Making it faster and faster, Smaller and smaller, Now there is a 25Mhz 68000 but when this prototype was done 12Mhz was the best. Other Amiga companys had done 68000 upgrades for the Amiga 500 and 2000 series and it was a very cheap way to upgrade the CDTV so Phase 5 designed this, It would speed up every CDTV title and no program would crash that had worked on the original CPU. The card replaced the original CPU and requires no software to be installed and not only does it give your CDTV a faster CPU it adds two meg of fast ram (DMA compatiable). The prototype was developed and sent to a few 3rd party developers but was never launched, Why wasnt it launched? Well I dont know, It would have been the only one available world wide, Maybe W.A.W. launched there Turbo-CD and Phase 5 wouldnt compete in such a small market, Maybe it was just that the market was to small, They didnt make an Amiga 600, CD32 or A500 CPU upgrade either and the A500 was the highest selling Amiga for years after the CDTV was launched. One example is none to me, and best of all I own it ;)
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