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From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
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On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Sam Ockman wrote:

> Hello...
> 
> I'm primarly interested in writing a sound driver for a pci based sound
> card.  I don't own one yet....but will buy one or get one shipped out to me
> for free (I have a nice job...) as far as I know the only pci sound card out
> there is the Diamond Monster Sound...anyone else know of other ones?
> Creative Labs is supposedly coming out with an awe 64d which will be pci
> soon (is it out already?)  It's specifically for the oem market.

Support for any PCI soundcard is welcomed, there maybe need some
changes in abstract layers in driver for it.

> Only problem is I've never written a driver sound or otherwise, and know
> nothing about it.  I do know C well, so I think I can do this if people can
> point me in the right direction and give me a little hand holding....

I'll try answer to all your questions.

> (Is it a mistake for me to start with a pci based card?  Should I start with
> an isa card?  I'm happy to do a driver for the Multisound Monterey (it's
> a combination of a Tahiti and a Rio...I'd probably do the Tahiti part first,
> (the soundcard part...the Rio is midi) because that's where my interests
> lie.))

All work is welcomed.

> I think it's fairly important that we as a project have support for the
> awe64 card fairly quickly.  (Hopefully something that can take advantage of
> its ability rather than something that treats it as an sb16.)

I don't know very much about SB's, but looks like SB AWE 64 = SB AWE 32 +
32 wavetable channels doing by software (grr) and SB AWE 32 = SB 16
without EMU 8000 chip... Isn't true?

						Jaroslav Kysela

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
Academic Computer Centre, University of South Bohemia
Branisovska 31, C. Budejovice, CZ-370 05 Czech Republic


