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- From: Ulrich Kuehn <kuehn@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Re: /dev/audio?
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 13:47:26 +0200
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- |>> I've just thought of writing a /dev/audio for MiNT. Before I try(!) to do so,
- |>> I'd like to know if there's any need for that, and, if so, what specifications
- |>> will be useful. Or did anybody already did that?
- |>
- |> Nice Idea, but if you want it SUN compatible, you'll have two problems:
- |>
- |>1) If you write a routine using the "ordinary" PSG for output, you'll get a
- |>poor quality.
- |>
- |>2) If you want to write a routine using STE/TT DMA-Sound, problems will even
- |>be bigger, cause they use different sampling rates and can't handle the
- |>logarithmic compression/expansion.
- |>
- As far as I know there is already such a thing existing, but only for DMA
- sound devices. It was written by Karsten Isakovic, but I never heard that
- is was released already :(
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- Ulrich
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