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From: alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple's CD SC CD-ROM driver
Message-ID: <2375@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 88 09:16:54 GMT
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Reply-To: alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
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Keywords: CD-ROM driver

It sounds like you have a copy of the technical documentation that Apple gave
out at the CD-ROM conference. If you do, then you already know more than most.
From what I could determine, about half tof the CD-ROM driver calls work on
the Toshiba drive without rewriting. THe calls that work on non-Apple dirves
are for the most part noted as such in the technical documentation. What I
think is the best route in this event is to write your own CD-ROM driver for
the Toshiba, although I suspect many are already doing drivers for that drive.
My 2 cents are: make sure that Apple's neato Audio CD player desk accessory
works with whatever you may do. It is just too cool to believe.

Side Note: Have you tried the Apple Drive? What I wanna know is, can one play
an Audio CD without using MultiFinder (the DA closes. Does the music end, or
is the APlay command synchronous?) Also, Does anybody have any idea how a
small SCSI adaptor could be built to just play audio with the Apple drive? 
Some Radio SHack parts and the technical doumentation are all that seems needed
Just simulate the Audio commands that the driver sends with buttons! You could
sell millions when the Apple drive goes obsolete!


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