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- From: lcs@lysator.liu.se (Martin Blom)
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- Subject: Re: Audio question
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 14:43:37 GMT
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- espie@drakkar.ens.fr (Marc Espie) writes:
-
- >>Nah.. Hopefully AT throws that device far, far away and gives us
- >>something else instead.
-
- >Nothing wrong with the audio.device design !
-
- Nothing? ;) How about the 8 channel limit? Need for chip memory? Using
- period instead of frequency (and thereby needing different period values
- on PAL and NTSC machines)?
- It is very tightly connected to the native Paula audio.
-
- >The implementation is not perfect (to say the least), and it will probably
- >need loads of extensions to handle 16 bit samples or compressed formats
- >directly, but why throw the whole design away ?
-
- Perhaps you are correct, perhaps it can be fixed. Personally I'm not sure if
- it's worth the effort, though. But who am I to tell?
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