From: "Damian Yerrick" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: [Q] SB PCI64v + Allegro Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 15:11:46 -0500 Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Lines: 63 Message-ID: <7r1792$h4k$1@solomon.cs.rose-hulman.edu> References: <8D53104ECD0CD211AF4000A0C9D60AE30162E5EC AT probe-2 DOT acclaim-euro DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: yerricde.laptop.rose-hulman.edu X-Trace: solomon.cs.rose-hulman.edu 936648802 17556 137.112.205.146 (6 Sep 1999 20:13:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news AT cs DOT rose-hulman DOT edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Sep 1999 20:13:22 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Shawn Hargreaves wrote in message news:8D53104ECD0CD211AF4000A0C9D60AE30162E5EC AT probe-2 DOT acclaim-euro DOT net... > Alan McFarlane writes: > > I recently purchased a SoundBlaster PCI64v sound card which is > > (imho) crap! > > > > It works (ish) under Windows, although I continually have to > > readjust the volume controls... It works under Dos for some > > games - although the sound quality if you are running in a Dos > > box is terrible... I havn't tried it under Linux yet - need to > > get round to downloading RedHat 6... It works under Allegro > > only if I am running in a Dos box with inevitable problems - > > poor quality, and timer resolution... > > Yeah, soundcards suck. They have always sucked to some extent, mostly > because everyone was just copying the original SB design which isn't > really all that good, but these days things are getting a lot worse > because people are finally moving on from the SB system, but haven't > replaced it with any other good standards. This is no problem if you > are running under Windows, because the hardware manufacturers provide > Windows drivers for everything they make, but if you prefer to use > some alternative OS, you are pretty much stuck with no drivers, no > specs, and no hope of rescue. Maybe if there were a standard like "UniSBE" or something, it would make things a #### of a lot easier. > (and before someone leaps to suggest this, no, you > cannot realistically use Windows drivers from a DOS > program. Write a Windows program if you want to do that. With RSXNTDJ? With MinGWin32? Or with half a grand and Visual Studio? What's the Windows tool du jour? > Or provide some working code to prove me wrong, but it gets > very boring when people keep suggesting this idea but without > having any idea how to actually go about implementing it). >8 (scissors applied here) > > A. Purchase an original (and genuine) SoundBlaster Pro 2. > > B. Complain bitterly to Creative Labs about not giving Shawn the tech ref. > > C. Give up computers altogether and become a lawyer No. Then you'll have to lie a lot, and you know what happened to Pinocchio. You'll deal with shareware authors who take an unpatented idea (falling tetrominoes) and implement it (the so- called Tetris clones), and your superiors expect you to sue them. You would have no case: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/cloning.html > (A) looks like a pretty good choice to me, if you can find such a thing. So how do you expect our audience to find such a thing? And how will it fit on our whiz-bang, PCI motherboards? Damian Yerrick http://come.to/yerrick and download DOSArena. It's more than just a Tetris clone.