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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!amd!amdahl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: SB patches for 09 (Was:[available] sound applications: xboing,) Message-ID: <hastyCEHLGo.4D3@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <CE7pyo.8Fn@sztaki.hu> <CEGv3v.LDn@sztaki.hu> Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 17:48:20 GMT Lines: 44 In article <CEGv3v.LDn@sztaki.hu> pink@fsz.bme.hu writes: >In article 8Fn@sztaki.hu, pink@fsz.bme.hu (Szabolcs Szigeti (PinkPanther)) writes: >>In article CDq@netcom.com, thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes: >>>The GNU licenses have never been tested. I would cheerfully ignore them. >>>We are dealing with anarchists, after all. >>> >>>Seriously, Hannu's driver for Linux has a 386bsd port; >> [ ... ] Hi, Just wanted to report that Hannus driver is almost upto speed under NetBSD-0.8. The most fatal got you is the GUS driver which is crashing my system . Interesting because the same driver architecture works with my sound blaster pro card. Hannu's driver can support different sound cards simultaneously; although, this feature has not been tested in my system due to lack of 16bit slots. However, once I am in a good enough shape with the GUS driver I should be able to free up a slot and drive 4 speakers <big grin> The difference in sound quality between the GUS and SB is perhaps akeen to day and nite,i.e., the GUS sounds FANTASTIC and you can download digitized sound to the card for playback or harmonization of the sound "patches". With a toshiba 3401 cdrom, we should be able to read off digital sound data and collect an awesome library of sound patches to play around with . Please note that currently we don't have driver support to read the digital audio from the toshiba. How much does the GUS cost? oh, about $130 and is perhaps one of the best sounding cards under the $500 price range. There are new cards emerging with wave table synthesis but I think just about all of them don't allow you to download sound patches like the GUS does. Cheers, Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming