Are you using a custom cable to connect to the wavetable headers on the card, or something routed over the joystick port? If the header, is it doing both the MIDI signal and audio to/from the sound card?

The SB16 is a CT4180. I soldered a two pin header (data and gnd) to the bottom of the 15-pin joystick port. There's a resistor between the SB16 and MacSD to limit current. The synth uses the same 4-pin audio header as CD audio.

So redbook CD audio is working without issue? Are you able to boot the PCs off a SCSI HDD image and do CD emulation and all that all at once?

CD audio is working without issue. This Gateway 2000 has an Adaptec AHA1520 (with ROM), so MacSD is the boot device. It emulates one CD drive and there is an IDE CDROM in there as well.

This is a DOS 6.22 / Win95 system. CD audio works great in Windows as well.

YMK wrote on 2024-02-26, 19:57:

The SB16 is a CT4180. I soldered a two pin header (data and gnd) to the bottom of the 15-pin joystick port. There's a resistor […]
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Are you using a custom cable to connect to the wavetable headers on the card, or something routed over the joystick port? If the header, is it doing both the MIDI signal and audio to/from the sound card?

The SB16 is a CT4180. I soldered a two pin header (data and gnd) to the bottom of the 15-pin joystick port. There's a resistor between the SB16 and MacSD to limit current. The synth uses the same 4-pin audio header as CD audio.

So redbook CD audio is working without issue? Are you able to boot the PCs off a SCSI HDD image and do CD emulation and all that all at once?

CD audio is working without issue. This Gateway 2000 has an Adaptec AHA1520 (with ROM), so MacSD is the boot device. It emulates one CD drive and there is an IDE CDROM in there as well.

This is a DOS 6.22 / Win95 system. CD audio works great in Windows as well.

ok, I might be wrong here, but I don't consider a Vibra16C an SB16, but meh, that aside.

If a soundcard has a wavetable header, connecting that to the macsd should/could work, right?

Even audio could be routed back through the wavetable header in stead of the cd in , though that is just an added option.

If a soundcard has a wavetable header, connecting that to the macsd should/could work, right?

Even audio could be routed back through the wavetable header in stead of the cd in , though that is just an added option.

Sure, I don't see why not.

YMK wrote on 2024-02-26, 20:16:

If a soundcard has a wavetable header, connecting that to the macsd should/could work, right?

Even audio could be routed back through the wavetable header in stead of the cd in , though that is just an added option.

Sure, I don't see why not.

Cool, I've had you bookmarked for over three years now 😒
Guess I should make an order soon-ish. 😁

SETBLASTER, I saw your PM but can't reply for some reason.

Interesting device and well done work @YMK.
So, for us non-SCSI user we need

MacIDE !!

That would be a dream. I would say working CD-Audio is a must-have and no other device offers this yet for IDE.
Correct me if I'm wrong.

crusher wrote on 2024-03-22, 11:48:

Interesting device and well done work @YMK. So, for us non-SCSI user we need […]
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Interesting device and well done work @YMK.
So, for us non-SCSI user we need

MacIDE !!

That would be a dream. I would say working CD-Audio is a must-have and no other device offers this yet for IDE.
Correct me if I'm wrong.

Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?

You might be able to contact the creator through his yt email addr.

Can confirm that it works. oled display and dac module are seperate.

Go to 14:23 in the video for the cd audio demo.

weedeewee wrote on 2024-03-22, 15:54:

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Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?

You might be able to contact the creator through his yt email addr.

Can confirm that it works. oled display and dac module are seperate.

Go to 14:23 in the video for the cd audio demo.

Are you saying the Russian IDE SD emulator was released? The last videos were from two years ago with no information about obtaining it.

SScorpio wrote on 2024-03-22, 17:40:

weedeewee wrote on 2024-03-22, 15:54:

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Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?

You might be able to contact the creator through his yt email addr.

Can confirm that it works. oled display and dac module are seperate.

Go to 14:23 in the video for the cd audio demo.

Are you saying the Russian IDE SD emulator was released? The last videos were from two years ago with no information about obtaining it.

I just read the comments under his video.

If tomorrow the 'special military operation' ends, I wouldn't be surprised if the device will be more readily available .
Though I'm just expressing hope since the device from fixel seems to be suffering from logistics problems.
and offcourse the next contender on the market will be the zuluide... 🤞

Check this out: Kevin Moonlight’s Panasonic CD-ROM emulation using a Pi Pico

https://youtu.be/L59Bp61Je4Y

Thanks @Zeerex, very interesting!
CD-Audio works.

Unfortunalety it's only usable with a Laptop / PCMCIA solution.

Isn't PCMCIA just ISA?

ExplodingLemur wrote on 2024-04-17, 19:56:

Isn't PCMCIA just ISA?

It can be either ISA or PCI. I'm not sure if it's 100% one to one for the pins. But the design should be able to be translated over.

SScorpio wrote on 2024-04-17, 20:25:

ExplodingLemur wrote on 2024-04-17, 19:56:

Isn't PCMCIA just ISA?

It can be either ISA or PCI. I'm not sure if it's 100% one to one for the pins. But the design should be able to be translated over.

FYI, if it's PCI then it's mostly called CardBus, and the pins aren't one for one, as in the ISA PCMCIA doesn't do DMA, if I recall correctly.

From the video it looks like Panasonic interface uses one two 8 bit IO ports and is pooled. In that case it could even be adopted to work over LPT.
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~theom/ele … anasoniccd.html
PicoGUS should have no problem adding this functionality.

FYI, open beta zulu-ide cdrom/zip emulator

https://store.rabbitholecomputing.com/ZuluIDE … 040-compact.htm
http://www.zuluide.com/

I'm assuming ZuluIDE wont support things like clonecd images or other disc images with copy protection software?
Also can it play redbook audio?

In description it says:

CD-ROM images are represented by ISO or raw binary .bin/.cue file formats