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From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Disney Sound Source
Message-ID: <1991Mar23.084030.17032@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 91 08:40:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: d.1991Mar23.084030.17032
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Organization: Oklahoma State University
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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.