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From: "Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel" <kalum AT newmail DOT net>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 05:08:06 +0600
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Subject: Re: ** Allegro Digital Sound Problems **
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On 29 Dec 99, at 14:02, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> 
> "vimal naran" <vtech AT ihug DOT co DOT nz> wrote in message
> news:84cnks$1pl$1 AT news DOT ihug DOT co DOT nz...
> > Is anyone else having trouble getting their Sound Blaster Live! going with
> > Allegro (DOS)?
> 
> From what I've heard, SB Live is a winsoundcard.

This is quite wrong and misleading. 
Adding the prefix win to a hardware device (like winmodem) implies 
that the device needs windows specific resources to run. For 
example a winmodem (some internal ones) needs a driver which 
uses the CPU resources (when the modem is busy the system 
slows down a lot) vs a hardware modem (all external ones and 
certain internal ones) which doesn't need a driver which is 
dependent on OS specific code. So therefore most winmodems 
cannot run on anyother OS like linux etc.

However the SBLive installation CD (I have liveware 2.0) Includes a 
TSR which emulates the SB16 for DOS Programs, Please see my 
earlier Post about this. Also there is a Driver For Linux so AFAIK  
the SBLive is not a winsoundcard since it doen't require a windows 
specific driver to work (all the processing, Special FX, is done 
using the on board hardware EMU10k chip) so it doesn't depend on 
windows specific code. 

And although the Allegro file says that Creative hasn't relased any 
specs for the EMU10K1 this is also wrong. Creative has indeed 
recently released specs and they have been used to build the 
SBLive driver for Linux. The source can be found at 
<http:///www.opensource.creative.com>. 

IMHO the SBLive is a super soundcard and one of the few which 
Emulate the SB16 for DOS. Most of the other cards I've come 
across (like that trashy Aztech 2320PnP) emulate SbPro for DOS 
(only 8bit sound)

Best Wishes for the season,
Kalum

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