From: "Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel" To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 05:08:06 +0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: ** Allegro Digital Sound Problems ** In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12) Message-ID: <94654523801@out.newmail.net> Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On 29 Dec 99, at 14:02, Damian Yerrick wrote: > > "vimal naran" 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 . 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