Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!decwrl!hookup!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!news.funet.fi!ngw!news.funet.fi!not-for-mail From: Yusseri Yusoff Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: CD-ROM GAMES Date: 28 Apr 1994 20:31:12 +0300 Organization: FUNET-NGW Lines: 44 Sender: daemon@news.funet.fi Distribution: alt Message-ID: Reply-To: Yusseri Yusoff NNTP-Posting-Host: news.funet.fi Return-Path: <@UCCVMA.UCOP.EDU:Y.M.Yusoff@SHEFFIELD.AC.UK> X-Pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v2.3 (R5). Comments: To: CDROM-L@uccvma.ucop.edu To: CDROM-L Redistribution > 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 not sure I got all the details but I think when you plug in the headphones into the jack at the front of the CD-Rom, and you hear music, voice, whatever, then it's normal Pulse Coded Modulation (PCM) sound of the type you get from audio CDs. To confirm this, bunk the CD into your CD player on your hi-fi, ghetto sumthin-whatever, and play it. If you hear the exact same thing from the hi-fi, then I'm right. I haven't seen a CD-Rom drive that are 'soundblaster compatible' yet, that is, able to do FM synthesis on it's own, unless it's through a soundcard already in existence to which the CD-Rom drive is interfaced therefore I'm very, very sure that I'm right regarding the PCM thing. Some CD-Rom games use normal CD audio for it's soundtrack exclusively, such as LucasArts' Loom. Other games use both CD audio and sounds through a soundcard, for e.g. 7thGuest. It's opening and ending soundtrack can be played through a normal CD player, but other bits are through the soundcard. This is because those sounds are programmed into the game itself so that you get a 'feel' for the game and so that you won't hear "OUCH!" only in the same scene at the same time even if you did something else in that scene that would actually make you say "OUCH!" for example. It makes the game a nonlinear. What I'm trying to say is (because I can't bloody understand myself what I just wrote), oh hell, hope you get what I mean. If you want further explanation, write back. I'll think of the words.