The Commodore CDTV was a project headed by Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari. It was basically an Amiga 500 computer with a CD-ROM drive in disguise to compete with the rising trend of home multimedia devices that tried to cover "all the things:" entertainment, education, and applications, while being cheaper and more accessible to families than a full-blown PC.

That trend, as well as the CDTV, both died off within a couple years.

The CDTV preservation scene before now was rough at best. There's not even an accurate, comprehensive list of released titles that Amiga and Commodore enthusiasts agree on, and there are a small portion of items that have never been dumped or that only exist as copies of copies of copies of CDs. Some software has been mistaken as CDTV when they were just CD32-only titles and have floated around in collections, mislabeled. There was also a ton of Public Domain games found on various Workbench discs with every last piece of software Amiga heads could find, all crammed into compilations of various compatibility and quality.

Some titles on these lists have never actually existed, and others in current day sets have never worked because they were bad dumps only performed once years and years ago, dragging their corpses all over Archive.org in hopes that maybe someone will rip a working copy some day.

I researched as hard as I could to figure out what exactly to add. This includes independent CD32 to CDTV ports of the time (that really only took some header magic from smart individuals) as well as titles released for multiple systems at once (CDTV, CD32, and Amiga CD) that were marketed as CDTV compatible, even if an actual CDTV copy has not currently been ripped - There are only a handful of these, so I've added the CD32 versions (or dumps that boot more easily in a default CD32 mode rather than a heavily customized CDTV mode) in their place until we have better or more accurate dumps of them.

I am confident that this collection will be the most complete and accurate for gamers in the generations ahead - It's the absolute best I could put together with the sources that are available. Funny enough, when looking for information to help update this set, two different sites I found linked to my previous archive as a trusted source of all known CDTV software. So I must be doing -something- right. Hah!