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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: Phantom on May 11, 2010, 12:21:08 AM

Title: AmigaCD games with CDDA
Post by: Phantom on May 11, 2010, 12:21:08 AM

Many AmigaCD games came with CDDA for music, but what I have to do to enable them and hear them throughout the games?

Title: Re: AmigaCD games with CDDA
Post by: Tension on May 11, 2010, 12:23:41 AM

If you are playing them on a normal Amiga with a CD-ROM drive then you need the audio outputs from teh CD-ROM drive connected to your speakers, as well as the normal Amiga audio outputs.

Title: Re: AmigaCD games with CDDA
Post by: Tension on May 11, 2010, 12:25:08 AM

Or else plug a set of headphones into the front of the CD-ROM drive (if you have an old enough one)

Title: Re: AmigaCD games with CDDA
Post by: Phantom on May 11, 2010, 12:25:09 AM

I'm using this with an A4000D.

Title: Re: AmigaCD games with CDDA
Post by: Tension on May 11, 2010, 12:27:43 AM

Quote from: Phantom;557651

I'm using this with an A4000D.

The A4000D has a input connector on the motherboard to connect the audio from the CD-ROM drive.  However the levels aren't matched properly IIRC, and you need a non-standard cable to connect the drive.  its a small 3 pin header instead of the usual style ones on PC soundcards.

Title: Re: AmigaCD games with CDDA
Post by: Phantom on May 11, 2010, 12:32:41 AM

Thanks for your answers mate.

Any chance where to find this cable?

Title: Re: AmigaCD games with CDDA
Post by: Tension on May 11, 2010, 12:35:41 AM

No problem.  Not sure where you would get a suitable cable though.  I got mine out of an old Win95 machine about 10 years ago.  Might be best to splice 2 old cables together.

Good luck!!

Title: Re: AmigaCD games with CDDA
Post by: Phantom on May 11, 2010, 12:37:50 AM

Thanks! :-)

Title: Re: AmigaCD games with CDDA
Post by: Matt_H on May 11, 2010, 02:04:36 AM

Quote from: Phantom;557657

Thanks for your answers mate.

Any chance where to find this cable?

I've never seen a 3pin CD audio cable, but most of the common 4pin cables use only 3 pins anyway - L, R, and ground. You can fake a 3pin cable by very carefully moving one of the pins of a 4pin cable so that they're all adjacent. Sewing pins work well to pry up the plastic of the connector casing to release the pin.

Title: Re: AmigaCD games with CDDA
Post by: Phantom on May 11, 2010, 12:48:40 PM

Thanks. Although I was thinking if there is any other way, by software perhaps to enable CDDA playback?

Title: Re: AmigaCD games with CDDA
Post by: Tension on May 11, 2010, 11:55:25 PM

Unfortunately not.  The audio tracks are just recorded as normal 16bit 44.1k CD audio.  You can play them on a normal CD player.  

I remember a program called YACDP was able to play the CD Audio over the SCSI bus on my A1200 with Squirrel, so it came out through the Amiga's audio outs.  However the quality was poor and the CPU overhead would be high.

If you're stuck, i'll see if i have another suitable wire that u could have.