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PCMCIA Sound Card
« on: February 21, 2014, 08:43:23 PM »
What prevents a 600 or 1200 from using a PCMCIA sound card?
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Re: PCMCIA Sound Card
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2014, 11:28:25 PM »
GLAD to hear! If the issue were a lack of drivers, I'd have been upset. :)

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I used to have one of those for my laptop. It doesn't fit a 600 or a 1200 PCMCIA socket because it is 32-bit I think or because it is the wrong voltage. There are notches on the card so it doesn't physically fit. And then you would need some genius to code the drivers and the application to support those drivers. I sold mine though because it was such a bitch to load all the drivers on the laptop. At least Paula just works ).

EDIT: On that note, the next Amiga Expansion kit needs to come equipped with a 32-bit PCMCIA expnsion slot. ;)
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Re: PCMCIA Sound Card
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2014, 12:31:17 AM »
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If you already have a USB controller, sure. Not so much if you'd rather not spring for one just so you can use a USB sound card for which you paid still more money. I'd be surprised if there weren't 16-bit PCMCIA sound cards out there, considering how many of the things there were back in the days of 486 and early Pentium laptops. Probably just a driver issue.

(But then, I'm the kind of person who thinks putting a sound card in an Amiga is pretty silly to begin with...)


Trident/Posieden doesn't support USB sound cards.
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Re: PCMCIA Sound Card
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2014, 12:53:35 AM »
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Nah, plenty of 16-bit PCMCIA sound cards available:

http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=30840

Better get coding if you want them to work on your 1200 :p.


 I'm utterly SHOCKED that no one has done so in all the years passed!
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Re: PCMCIA Sound Card
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2014, 12:33:34 PM »
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Don't tell that to my A4000! I wouldn't want my sound card on my Deneb to stop working!


Sorry, yes you are correct, it is not the software end that was preventing me using a USB sound card before (on my 600 and under MorphOS), it was the hardware. Someone did once tell me that Deneb's play well with them...

...I wish everything would.

 Slotless Amigas really need a cheap Sound Card and GFX Card Solution.
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Re: PCMCIA Sound Card
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2014, 01:52:11 PM »
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USB sound cards are effectively free.
 
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/8-1-USB-USB-2-0-Portable-B5UT-Sound-Card-USB-Sound-Card-Notebook-Desktop-Adapter-/231105474683?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&var=&hash=item35cef5b07b
 
I don't know whether there is a standard for USB sound cards, or whether you have to buy a particular one though.
 
I was suggesting USB over forking out for PCI or developing a PCI express solution. For PCMCIA it would make sense for someone to write a driver, but I expect everyone uses PCMCIA for networking these days.


Indeed indeed, I had bought 3 of them a while back when I had an eMac with MorphOS, but sadly that arrangement did not work out.  

 Great cards for all other alt OS's though!
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Re: PCMCIA Sound Card
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2014, 02:49:51 PM »
If I had the AAA chipset, I would not want a gfx card.

As for the sound card, well when working with OctaMED S.S. you come to realize that some sorts of sounds are better off in 16-bit.
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