Re: CD-Rom ProDOS 8 driver?

[bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:

>I think Apple used to license ProDOS-8 code for accessing these discs
>from ProDOS-8 programs.

  I asked DTS about this and they said they had never written such code;
it was deemed too difficult or impossible, or something like that. Sounds
like a good opportunity for some enterprising P8 programmer :)

>The SCSI card also provides calls to control audio operations on the
>drive, but these are done by using SmartPort calls, and aren't
>accessed through ProDOS.  I don't know of any ProDOS-8 programs which
>use these commands (apart from a little BASIC program I wrote to
>control playing audio discs).

  There's a program that comes with the CD-150 that is a CD-Remote
control program. Note that the HS SCSI only supports audio on a CD-150.

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