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Anonymous
(Unregistered)
2002/11/28 15:41
Sound-Blaster on Sprinter? Reply to this post

Is there any possibility to plug in PC's SoundBlaster to Sprinter? Would it work?



Denis ParinovVIP
(Sprinter Team)
2002/11/28 20:54
Re: Sound-Blaster on Sprinter? new [re: Anonymous]Reply to this post

Yes. Sprinter has two ISA-8 slots. You can plug any ISA-8 devices like modem, soundcard, netcard etc. But ISA-8 only. ISA-16 would not work here.
Also it will require special program (driver) which work with your card.
Today, our software use Sprinter's Sound System only.




Anonymous
(Unregistered)
2002/12/02 18:22
Re: Sound-Blaster on Sprinter? new [re: Denis Parinov]Reply to this post

Is it complex to write a driver for SoundBlaster?
Of course somebody would have to write a tracker for it, but it is another story. :)



flydream
(newbie)
2002/12/02 23:24
Re: Sound-Blaster on Sprinter? new [re: Anonymous]Reply to this post

I think Sprinter's sound is very good. Why do you want to use SB?



Denis ParinovVIP
(Sprinter Team)
2002/12/03 00:19
Re: Sound-Blaster on Sprinter? new [re: Anonymous]Reply to this post

> Is it complex to write a driver for SoundBlaster?

It's not a hard problem. But we spend a lot of time for another tasks.
It just priorities policy.

> Of course somebody would have to write a tracker for it, but it is another story. :)

I think that tracker which will work with Sprinter's Sound is more required.




Anonymous
(Unregistered)
2002/12/04 13:37
Re: Sound-Blaster on Sprinter? new [re: Denis Parinov]Reply to this post

>I think that tracker which will work with Sprinter's Sound is
>more required.

A tracker with 2 channels? Ha-ha, don't get me wrong: Sprinter is the best machine in the world, but its sound is more than bad. 2chn is not enought even for games. Tracker will be resonable thing to make when Sprinter has at least 3 chn-sound, don't you think?



Anonymous
(Unregistered)
2002/12/04 13:37
Re: Sound-Blaster on Sprinter? new [re: Denis Parinov]Reply to this post

>I think that tracker which will work with Sprinter's Sound is
>more required.

A tracker with 2 channels? Ha-ha, don't get me wrong: Sprinter is the best machine in the world, but its sound is more than bad. 2chn is not enought even for games. Tracker will be resonable thing to make when Sprinter has at least 3 chn-sound, don't you think?



Denis ParinovVIP
(Sprinter Team)
2002/12/05 03:35
Re: Sound-Blaster on Sprinter? new [re: Anonymous]Reply to this post

:) Sprinter is a flexible machine.
And It can be implemented much more channels.
Also we are planned to implement hardware sound features for mixing, resampling, multiplication, etc.




polardark
(newbie)
2002/12/05 18:45
Re: Sound-Blaster on Sprinter? new [re: Denis Parinov]Reply to this post

Would it be possible to have a library of PLD routines like math acceleration, AY sound, graphics accelerator and so on that you could combine as you self wanted? That would give programmers more choice and power for the application they wanted to make.

Just a random thought. The sprinter is awesome as it is.



Denis ParinovVIP
(Sprinter Team)
2002/12/06 03:59
Re: Sound-Blaster on Sprinter? new [re: polardark]Reply to this post

We are thinking for it. So, in any case PLD chip have to load as solid data array. I.e. it can't reload part of PLD.
But we may to compile different PLD-modules which will consist different combinations of hardware features.
Also we are planned to release specification for hardware developers. And describe there how to make PLD-module yourself.
May be some source codes for it will be published too.





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