Hello Stephen!

Thus quoth Stephen Lindholm to Peter Fitzsimmons:

PF>> I wanted to learn a little about MMOS2,  and as my first
PF>> goal I wanted to write a program that simply reads an audio
PF>> cdrom into my own buffers;if I couldn't figure that out I
PF>> wanted to try to get MMOS2 to write a portion of the audio
PF>> CD into a disk file so I could look at the data later.  I
PF>> have got nowhere.  If anyone has any ideas....

 SL> I believe that this is not possible. My CD-ROM plays redbook through
 SL> the drive itself. The rest of my computer doesn't see it unless I
 SL> run a phono cable to the soundcard. Note that while some computers have
 SL> this cable _inside,_ I know of none that send raw redbook anywhere.

It *is* possible, at least on some CD-ROMs (proven on Toshiba 3401 and
4101), but most CD-ROMs don't support the read-out of audio data. Look into
the options menu of the MMPM/2 CD-ROM player: there is an item called
'digital transfer' which routes the digital audio data from the CD-ROM
through the host computer to the wave audio device. This feature enabled me
to listen to my favourite CDs inserted into my external CD-ROM drive
without any audio connection.

bye, Detlef

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