SATA DVD drive to IDE and AUDIO

[VoltureX]

Hi.

Is it possible if I have a SATA DVD drive to get CD AUDIO from the drive through the Amiga. The SATA drive do not have the analog audio pins like the IDE drive has.

Thanks

Volt.

[thomas]

http://aminet.net/package/mus/play/DAPlayer_68k

[VoltureX]

Thanks for the link Thomas but I have soldered the CD audio on the mainboard and can't figure how to connect that to a SATA drive.

Volt.

[Jope]

The drive probably doesn't have a D/A converter in the first place, so the link you received is your only solution.

[fitzsteve]

Originally Posted by thomas

http://aminet.net/package/mus/play/DAPlayer_68k

Can this work for games with CD Audio? i.e during game play?

[VoltureX]

I see, thanks. I'm wondering aswell as Fitzsteve if the CD Audio can be played during gameplay.

Volt.

[thomas]

Originally Posted by fitzsteve

Can this work for games with CD Audio? i.e during game play?

No, DAPlayer is just a music player program which plays CDDA through AHI instead of letting the drive play back the audio tracks.

I already thought about a .device type driver which can be used in games and any other programs which just send play commands to the drive instead of reading the audio data. But it is only in a very early planning state, I have not written a single line of code yet.

And it surely will be slow. Continously reading data through the IDE bus, converting from 16bit @ 44kHz to 8bit @ 22kHz, that all will eat a lot of CPU time which otherwise would be usable by the game.

[fitzsteve]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for your reply, I was thinking that it would need to a .device setup as that's normally how I setup the game (atapi.device) to play the audio back in CD Audio tracks.

I'd certainly be interested to test something if you ever coded such a thing, I wonder with a good fast CPU like 040/40 or 060 it would work.

Cheers,
Steve.

[VoltureX]

I found an IDE DVD drive (white) on ebay I will use instead because I like multitasking on my 030

Volt.