Re: Audio Animator Pinouts

["don" <don@schrank.us>]

"Drew" <GoggleDrew@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On 24 Oct, 23:47, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>> Drew wrote:
>> > On 24 Oct, 17:34, a2avia...@gmail.com wrote:
>> >> I would almost say .. yes except I'm skeptical. There's a a bit of
>> >> electronics in the external box too, and even just the levels would be
>> >> all wrong without it, if you found audio at all on the header. ..and
>> >> there are three different versions of that Audio Animator external box
>> >> too.
>>
>> > Hmmm interesting, do you reckon i could try by simply using a speaker
>> > and see if i get sound out from any of the pins? or would this damage
>> > that card?
>>
>> You can be nearly certain that any power amplifiers are in the
>> external box, so you won't be able to drive speakers without it.
>>
>> You probably have line outputs at the connector (possibly with
>> a DC offset, requiring a capacitor to block the DC).
>
> Line out would be fine, think I will need to have a play. Thanks for
> all the comments guys
>
> Cheers
> Drew

Was looking for this info myself as my stereo card seems to have given up 
the ghost.  It would seem no company ever took full advantage of what the 
IIgs could do, it has 8 audio channels available for output.  Anyways, the 
two sites below are quite informative:

http://home.datacodsl.com/kalandi/apple/AUG/1991/08%20AUG/STEREO.CARD.html

http://www.cirruscomms.com.au/~mike_stephens/apple2/TDX_Stereo_Card/index.html