Re: Apple CD150 and the GS...

[johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)]

In article <dirk-070494095159@muffin.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de>, dirk@gaga.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de (Dirk Froehling) (Dirk Froehling) writes:
|> I have a CD150 and a RAMFast Rev.C 3.00L. It works great for data
|> transfers.
|> But I tried the drivers for audio without success. I used the Multi Media
|> CDev to select the CD150 driver, but what port (in the CDev also) shall I
|> select?
|> Everything I tried made the MultiMedia NDA hang. If I insert a audio CD
|> after
|> a data CD, the GS hangs also. Do I have to wait for the 3.01 ROMs? They
|> are on backorder at LRO.

No, the RamFAST by itself is incapable of playing audio tracks on any
CD-ROM drive because it has a generic SCSI interface and audio commands
are specific from one manufacturer to the next.  Fortunately, Jawaid
Bazyar recently wrote a RamFAST driver which will allow it to play audio
tracks on Sony CD-ROM drives such as the AppleCD 150.  I haven't been
able to try it yet, but it was posted (along with its source code!) on
comp.binaries.apple2 and comp.sources.apple2 not long ago.

BTW, order your ROM upgrade directly from Sequential Systems (800-759-4549)
for only $9.50 + $1 shipping (foreign orders may be different).  LRO is
practically always backordered on everything, and Sequential should be
able to send it right out.

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