kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) (06/20/91)
A while back, mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz) wrote: [in a reply to my question about sound playing] > Yes and no. We can play direct CD audio. We can also play Amiga style > audio. The Amiga style audio takes less disk space and thus you can have > much more of it on the CD. (24 hours or some such large numebr) Since > the way the hardware works, you can play continuous sounds from the CD in > Amiga mode and still load data at the same time. The data will load slower > since you also are using some of the data bandwidth to load more sound. > If you play a sound "Loop" then the data will load just as fast as with > no sound. Remember, CDTV still has all of the benefits of the Amiga, > including the Paula chip, which has the DMA driven sound channels. Thanks! This reminds me of a couple of possibly related questions: 1) Does CDTV use only the normal cdrom Mode 1 for loading a/v/code data? In other words, is Mode 2 unused? 2) Hey, what the heck <grin> is CDXL? If it's neither software nor hardware, then is it a miracle product? Or a state of bliss? Or ?? :-) :-) Thanks again. Curious cat - kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>