Prisma Megamix. New soundcard for classics!

[amigakit.com]

Base card is probably costing around £69 / 85 EUR / US $99. When production finishes, there will be more exact costings.

@dlfrsilver

This card can either hook up to A1200 via clockport cable - maybe ACA 500 / A604 in future too!

Alternatively big box Amigas can just plug it into the Zorro slot.

[Reido]

Thanks for the info, will be ordering when available.

[Riempie]

Any chance of a picture from the card inside a desktop A1200?

[tomse]

Originally Posted by Riempie

Any chance of a picture from the card inside a desktop A1200?

It's not a picture, but a movie ;-)

[ Show youtube player ]

[Riempie]

how will this fit inside with all these cables? Can the A1200 still be closed? Or do we need to be creative?

[NovaCoder]

Originally Posted by Riempie

how will this fit inside with all these cables? Can the A1200 still be closed? Or do we need to be creative?

I can still close me case OK but if you've got a FastATA or SubWay it will be getting tight for space in a desktop A1200.

[voyager]

And that's were you get the idea to put it in a tower case :-)

[Amicol]

Would be great to get CD music in WHDLoad CD32 games at last.
Can you mix the cards sound with Paula inside your A1200 case?

[NovaCoder]

Originally Posted by Amicol

Would be great to get CD music in WHDLoad CD32 games at last.
Can you mix the cards sound with Paula inside your A1200 case?

Yep sure, check my Duke Nukem video

[alexh]

Originally Posted by Amicol

Would be great to get CD music in WHDLoad CD32 games at last.

We've already had this discussion in a separate thread. Hardware is not the reason this has never happened before. WHDload cannot access the audio files after the game has launched as the OS is effectively disabled. With enough RAM it could cache MP3/OGG versions in a PreLoad manner... but it would be lots of work and only a handful of people would see the benefit

[Amicol]

Originally Posted by alexh

We've already had this discussion in a separate thread. Hardware is not the reason this has never happened before. WHDload cannot access the audio files after the game has launched as the OS is effectively disabled. With enough RAM it could cache MP3/OGG versions in a PreLoad manner... but it would be lots of work and only a handful of people would see the benefit

That's a great shame

I'm sure there are other possibilities with the card, ScummVM is one

@Novacoder, great music on the Duke video, sounds just like it's coming from a Roland SC55

[Hewitson]

Would it not be possible to not kill the system for these games? I'm assuming the system is used on an actual CD32, or is software able to hit the hardware directly in order to play CD audio?

[Lord Aga]

Originally Posted by tomse

It's not a picture, but a movie ;-)

[ Show youtube player ]

Well.. if it's gonna come with it's own sound card blanky I'll buy two

[alexh]

Originally Posted by Hewitson

Would it not be possible to not kill the system for these games?

Not and use WHDload (as it is today) without pausing during file access.

Originally Posted by Hewitson

I'm assuming [AmigaOS] is used on an actual CD32 game

Not necessarily. It is up-to the programmer.

Originally Posted by Hewitson

Is software able to hit the hardware directly in order to play CD audio?

Yes. All software does is send CDDA commands to the hardware to play, stop, seek etc. and the CD32 audio mixing hardware does the rest. No AmigaOS accessing files.

[NovaCoder]

Originally Posted by Lord Aga

Well.. if it's gonna come with it's own sound card blanky I'll buy two

I will be able to supply 'Amiga branded' blankyies to the marketplace by the end of the year.

[Hewitson]

Originally Posted by alexh

Not and use WHDload (as it is today) without pausing during file access.

Sorry, I should have specified that I meant playing the actual CD rather than a rip of it. You could drop back into the system, send a play/stop command to the CD-ROM, and then jump back into the game.

I'm not suggesting that it would be ideal, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.

Originally Posted by alexh

Yes. All software does is send CDDA commands to the hardware to play, stop, seek etc. and the CD32 audio mixing hardware does the rest. No AmigaOS accessing files.

I didn't realise that, I assumed the playback was handled by the OS. I guess the CD32 must have a custom rom in addition to the kickstart.

[Amicol]

8 Months since the announcement...

Any updates?

[FOL]

Originally Posted by Amicol

8 Months since the announcement...

Any updates?

Just waiting for the drivers to be finished. We dont want it released without drivers.

[ancalimon]

I still don't get what the difference is between a soundcard like Delfina and this.

Is the only difference that you can not record anything with this card? Or is it that you can not use programs and games that support AHI with this card? (For example, I can't choose AHI to get 16bit audio for a demo that supports AHI? )

Nevertheless, I'm going to get at least one for my A4000t

[BigFan]

Originally Posted by ancalimon

I still don't get what the difference is between a soundcard like Delfina and this.

A soundcard is able to mix different sounds (decoded on x channels) to an assigned stereo out. Any of these channels can be edited, like play drums or trumpets or mute.

The mp3/ogg decoder on this card is just like those many portable mp3 players. it reads data from memory and decodes the file to stereo out.
It cannot edit the trumpet or the bell. You cannot compose music as you do with famous trackers.

you can't play the shotgun sound in game when mowing down the enemies. this is still the job of paula. What a &%$& . Having nice background music with crackling 8 bit 8 khz samples will prove the hardware to be old.