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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: tokyoracer on April 29, 2008, 09:42:50 AM

Title: CD playback on A1200?
Post by: tokyoracer on April 29, 2008, 09:42:50 AM

Hi Amigans, I have asked about VCD playback in the past but I am curious if it is possible to pay just ortdanary music CD's on my main A1200 without too much trouble. It has a Blizz 030 + FPU @ 50Mhz with plenty of RAM, is that enough for this sort of thing?

Woo, 1000th post. :-)

Title: Re: CD playback on A1200?
Post by: rkauer on April 29, 2008, 09:48:24 AM

 You can play regular audio CD's in any Amiga equipped with a plain 68000 CPU any time you want.

 The only problem is the Amiga can't play it through the IDE cable, so you need to route the audio out from the CD to some sort of amplifier, mixer or sound card.

Title: Re: CD playback on A1200?
Post by: tokyoracer on April 29, 2008, 09:51:16 AM

This is it you see, the CD32 manages it fine and I was hoping that it would be the same for the 1200 but it's more complicated. I was worried that a soundcard will be needed, is there any way that the audio can play through the Amiga's phonos?

Title: Re: CD playback on A1200?
Post by: AmigaMance on April 29, 2008, 10:04:23 AM

Not true. You can play CDs using the paula chip at 14bit resolution. Your CPU is fast enough for this. There are several tools on Aminet that can do this. This command for example:
http://aminet.net/disk/cdrom/cdda.lha

Title: Re: CD playback on A1200?
Post by: smf on April 29, 2008, 10:05:04 AM

Quote

rkauer wrote:
 You can play regular audio CD's in any Amiga equipped with a plain 68000 CPU any time you want.

 The only problem is the Amiga can't play it through the IDE cable, so you need to route the audio out from the CD to some sort of amplifier, mixer or sound card.

Songplayer and possible other players also can play the audio through the ide interface

Title: Re: CD playback on A1200?
Post by: Matt_H on April 29, 2008, 06:02:18 PM

AsimTunes is another player that can play over the data lines.

Or you can hook up some speakers or headphones to the jack on the front of the CD drive.

Title: Re: CD playback on A1200?
Post by: monami on April 29, 2008, 06:33:28 PM

"Your CPU is fast enough for this. There are several tools on Aminet that can do this."

any better with a 40? (i can't open lha's or i would have downloaded it.)

Title: Re: CD playback on A1200?
Post by: monami on April 29, 2008, 06:49:01 PM

ha! cool. amplify does mp3's on cd this way. i can't seem to find a normal cd anywhere...

just got to run my workbench in a nice amount of colours now. how many would you all recommedend? 16 looks ok.

it didn't seem to work on a normal cd! still i have a dvd/ cd player in the same room!