Re: play audio CD's on IIe with Apple Rev C card?

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Wayne Stewart <waynes@telus.spamless.net> wrote:

> David Empson wrote:
> 
> > I wrote a rudimentary CD audio control program which ran in text mode
> > with a full screen listing about 40 different commands and prompting you
> > to select the command number.  I had it running on the IIgs, but I think
> > it was running under ProDOS-8 and it didn't depend on any IIgs-specific
> > features, so it should work on the IIe.
> 
> I'd be interested it that too, David. I'm using a NEC CD reader with my
> IIe because of it's front music controls. It'd also be nice to be able
> to use something that didn't need caddies.

I doubt that my software will work with anything other than an Apple
CD-SC, CD-SC+ or CD-150, because these are the only three drives which
support Apple's proprietary audio command set (and are the only drives
supported by the Apple SCSI cards for audio CD control).

Later Apple models (starting with the CD-300) switched to using the SCSI
II command set for CD-ROM drives, but the Apple II SCSI card firmware
(and GS/OS drivers) weren't updated.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz