Gee, all these killjoys about Newtons as sound players.. OK here's a
far-fetched idea: what is the absolute maximum rate you could push data
out the serial port from C++ (either port - if you can get access to the
second port at all) without any error checking? Then take that through
an external (or internal) PCB with a D/A converter with a preamp. 22Khz
stereo at 8/16 bits/sample is roughly 88 KB/s and 176 KB/s .
Here's another far-fetch possibility: feed MP3 data directly out the
(a) serial port (or IR port if it's fast enough and you can get
bit-level access in C++ - unlikely) and then to a dedicated MP3 decoding
chip and off to a D/A and preamp. I don't know enough about MP3
circuitry to know if you'd need to be able to send signals back from the
decoder to the Newton, which would make the serial link harder.
Jim
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