Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 11:47:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: FreeBSD-STABLE <FreeBSD-STABLE@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What does "Voxware still supported in 4.0" mean exactly? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003251144580.30411-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <38DC55BC.BA2240C2@newsguy.com>
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: >Unfortunately, the AWE boards are not competing with other sound cards. >They are competing with AMI MegaRaid SCSI controllers, with Alpha-based >architectures, with PCMCIA and CardBUS and USB. *THAT'S* what's killing >AWE: the new hardware standards we are supporting. Heck, even PnP in a >decent way, instead of the nasty hack used on 3.x. It's just an >unfortunate coincidence that the only driver supporting the AWE >wavetable MIDI synthetizing happens to be a driver for which no active >developer exists. If a driver has no developers... And there is not one single good reason why one couldn't strip out the AWE wavetable MIDI code from Voxware and port it to newpcm. If you need MIDI that badly, DO IT. The code already exists, it is not a matter of getting documentation. It is a simple matter of porting. ------------------------------------------------------------- | -Brandon D. Valentine bandix at looksharp.net | bandix on EFnet IRC BVRiker on AIM ------------------------------------------------------------- | "...and as for hackers, we note that all of those known to | The Register are so strapped financially that seizing their | property would be tantamount to squeezing blood from a | stone." -- The Register, 02/17/2000 ------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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