The Code masters CD Release late 80s

[dcdrac]

Did anyone get this and make it work?

Oliver Twins - The CD Games Pack

[robcfg]

I've seen the Spectrum and C64 versions, but never the amstrad one.


Do we have the next Chase HQ II?

[Gryzor]

Again?


As said here: Codemasters CD - CPCWiki


The Spectrum and Commodore versions have been actually released, but - as far as known - the Amstrad version wasn't ever released. According to the Oliver Twins (the makers of the CD), the Amstrad CPC hardware did exist, too. Though this seems to have been an

[Shaun M. Neary]

The big problem with this was the fact that it was an idea far ahead of its time.
What people tend to forget was, even back in 1989, there were still a lot of homes that didn't have a CD player! The players as well as the discs themselves were still relatively expensive compared to their vinyl and cassette counterparts.

Was a pretty good deal, if you could afford (and subsequently had) the hardware to use it, but if you didn't, forget it. It was a pipe dream.

[TFM]

1989 and CD? Nearly nobody had a CD player in that time. 

[Shaun M. Neary]

1989 and CD? Nearly nobody had a CD player in that time. 

The rich folk did!
I wouldn't get my first CD player until 1992!

[Puresox]

Well I'm sure I had one by about 89 , so I think they must have been fairly mainstream by then , as I am not from a particularly affluent background.

[dcdrac]

I had two, including one of the first portable ones, mind I was working by then.

[AMSDOS]

Kevin has information about this project on his website and does state that it existed, unsure why it wasn't released, a while ago I think I was reading that there was hardware issues or something relating to the reading of the CD, though I'm unsure.

[arnoldemu]

Kevin has information about this project on his website and does state that it existed, unsure why it wasn't released, a while ago I think I was reading that there was hardware issues or something relating to the reading of the CD, though I'm unsure.

From memory I asked the developers. They said it had been completed and they had one but it wasn't released.

[Gryzor]

I'm pretty sure it wasn't released...


Btw, got my first CD player, a portable SONY one, around 1991. A friend brought it for me from Germany, and in anticipation of it I bought a Pink Floyd ROIO (Recording of Indeterminate Origin - bootleg, that is) and Queen's A Night At The Opera

[zeropolis79]

Strange thing is that a DISC version for the C64 was released! I have such a copy.

[dcdrac]

when I first saw it I thought great, I will get this when it comes out and it didn't

[redbox]

when I first saw it I thought great, I will get this when it comes out and it didn't