Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!parc!biosci!agate!news.ossi.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!nobody From: mark@umbc.edu (Marik Meytin) Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: CD-ROM GAMES Date: 26 Apr 1994 19:05:38 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Lines: 42 Message-ID: <2pk6o2INNcb5@umbc7.umbc.edu> References: <9404261814355188@idsonline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: umbc7.umbc.edu Bruce Lee wrote: >FROM: bruce lee Hi, Bruce! ;^) >SUBJ: SOUND FROM CD-ROM > [...] A question however about CD-SOFTWARE... >Is it normal for a soundblaster card to play sound effects but to hear >music and words being spoken from the CD, having to plug in a seperate >set of speakers straight into the cd player headphone jack? It would be pretty bad if that would be normal, happily though this can be fixed relatively easy. >At first I did not hear any music or words from the people in the game >who were speaking to me, only sound effects, but once i plugged into the >headphone jack on the CD-ROM, WOW, I heard a soundtrack and voices... >. I'm sure you have a soundcard of some sort (or did your sound effects were coming out of PC speaker?) On most soundboards there's an internal CD Audio connector (on PAS16 and SB Pro it's a 4-pin male plug close and parallel to the outer edge of the card. In that case you need to connect it to the CD Audio out on a CD-ROM drive - as far as I know they have it somewhere next to controller cable plug on the back for the internal drives. Some tweaking with the cables may be required, check with your CD-ROM and Soundcard manuals to make sure the pins match or contact manufacturer. In case there's no internal CD Audio connector on a soundcard, you can always connect cable for the earphones on a drive to line-in on a soundcard. It should work just fine. In case you are using a PC speaker for all the effects, my advice is to go and get a soundcard - for less than $100.00 you can get much more out of those games. Especially that for many of them the _only_ difference between CD-ROM and diskette versions is digitized speech (King Quest V, Indiana Jones/Atlantis, DOTT, etc.) Good luck, -M- #include