I've been following this thread for some reason, and I finally figured out why. I think I had a similar "multimedia PC" my parents bought for me about 20 years ago (486SX 33MHz, 4MB RAM, 200MB HD, 2X CD-ROM and Sound Card when these were still considered optional, DOS 6.22/Windows 3.11). And I remember getting Front Page Sports Football Pro 95, Wolfenstein, and Doom working on this.
Anyways, someone on VOGONS did a ton of research [0] on similar sound cards. I suggest reading it. [0] http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=27943 On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:58 PM, John Hupp <free...@prpcompany.com> wrote: > I'm still working on trying to get audio CD's playing with this sound > card, a Media Vision Pro Sonic 16 (Jazz16 chipset). (The > earlier-reported other problems have now all been solved. I have sound > in DOOM and in mpxplayer.) > > It occurred to me that this might be a cabling issue. The card has a > 3-pin audio CD connector instead of the usual 4-pin. But since standard > 4-wire cables normally join the two ground wires and connect them to a > single pin so that only 3 pins are used, I thought I could make this > work easily by just moving a wire in the plug module. > > But I have now tried connecting the wires to the sound card in every > combination (I think), and the two CD players I have been testing with > continue to fail in the same way. CD-V complains "Invalid media!" and > won't even start. ACP starts, reads and displays all the track > information, and acts as if it is playing something, but I get no sound. > > In case it adds anything, this sound card was often packaged with a > Philips 206 CD-ROM drive. > > I have not found a pinout for the audio CD connection on either the > sound card or the CD-ROM drive. > > My latest thought, however: Does FreeDOS and/or a certain CD player > support sending the sound digitally to the sound card over the ribbon > cable and the PC bus, the way modern Windows does it? In this case I > can dispense with the cable. (I tried just disconnecting the cable and > my two current CD players behaved just as before.) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
