billbr@xstor.UUCP (Bill Brothers) (02/03/91)
In article <1991Feb2.005806.13573@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> nan@math.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) writes: >About the Sound Source from Walt Disney, I saw an ad selling it for $20. >I'm skeptical at anything this cheap. If anyone has tried this please >post your opinions. We use the Sound Source at home for the kids. It produces reasonably good sounds, music, voice, etc. Has a jack for headphones or external stereo. Sounds like 8-bit digitization to me. Connects to the parallel port as a parasite. I don't know of any programming support or information for it, and it is only supported by Disney's games. For those, it is the cat's meow. p.s I also own a soundblaster, an MPU-401 (a real one), and a MIDI studio. Bill Brothers Engineering Mgr. Storage Dimensions, Inc. uunet!xstor!billbr
billq@ms.uky.edu (Billy Quinn) (03/23/91)
I just bought a Disney Sound Source. Its a D/A digital sound player.
I took it apart in hopes of finding out how it works, and I found
a few things. Since it goes directly between the parallel port and the
printer, you can write to it by writing to ports $37A and $378. The
problem is that when I write a routine to play a tone, the volume is
very low. I think that maybe I'm doing somthing wrong with what Im
sending to port $37A.
Any info will help, I'll post more as I learn ...
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Billy Quinn (billq@ms.uky.edu)ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) (03/23/91)
From article <billq.669667511@s.ms.uky.edu>, by billq@ms.uky.edu (Billy Quinn): > I just bought a Disney Sound Source. Its a D/A digital sound player. > I took it apart in hopes of finding out how it works, and I found > a few things. Since it goes directly between the parallel port and the > printer, you can write to it by writing to ports $37A and $378. The > problem is that when I write a routine to play a tone, the volume is > very low. I think that maybe I'm doing somthing wrong with what Im > sending to port $37A. I heard somewhere that there is a battery inside the box. Is that true? If that is the case, can you change the battery when it runs out? How much power amplification can battery provide? Using a battery sounds more like a gemick then a serious sound card.