The Amiga A570 is a single-speed external CD-ROM drive for the Amiga 500 computer launched by Commodore in 1992. It was designed to be compatible with Commodore CDTV software as well as being able to read ordinary ISO 9660 CD-ROM discs.
6-526: A570 may refer to Amiga A570 , an external CD-ROM drive for the Amiga 500 computer A570 road , a primary route in northern England Canon PowerShot A570 , a digital camera released by Canon [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
12-520: A SCSI interface that allowed third-party hard disks and CD-ROM drives to be fitted. While these drives did not carry CDTV emulation, the lack of success of the CDTV format made this a null disadvantage for most users. CDs could not be inserted directly into the A570 and needed to be put in a caddy before being inserted into the reader slot. The A570 had no need for drivers. It was automatically recognized as
18-464: The A500 computer had already been discontinued. The Amiga 600 (ostensibly the A500's direct replacement) was, like the later A1200 , incompatible with this external drive. Thus, Commodore were in the position of having launched a CD-ROM drive for a discontinued machine, while a similar device was unavailable for their current low-end Amiga. This move by Commodore marketing department could be justified by
24-534: The fact that millions of A500 systems existed already, along with considerable demand for Commodore to release a more advanced data storage solution. The device (like the Amiga A590 hard disk drive that was sold by Commodore for the A500) had no through connector, so it was not possible to connect both an A590 and an A570 to the computer at the same time. The A590, despite having an XT IDE hard disk, also carried
30-406: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A570&oldid=544830825 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Amiga A570 The original designation
36-404: Was A690, and pre-production devices under this name were delivered to developers. The A690/A570 used a proprietary Mitsumi CD-ROM interface. It contained a header for an internal 2 Megabyte fast memory expansion, but this proprietary memory module was never put into production and only a few rare developer examples of this exist today. It is also notable that by the time of the A570's launch,
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