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From: nn86302@tut.fi (Neuvo Niilo Anselmi)
Newsgroups: comp.music,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 8-bit stereo sound for PC's
Message-ID: <2832@alva.tut.fi>
Date: 11 Dec 89 10:32:49 GMT
References: <6096@wpi.wpi.edu>
Reply-To: nn86302@alva.UUCP (Neuvo Niilo Anselmi)
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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In article <6096@wpi.wpi.edu> ear@wpi.wpi.edu (Eric A Rasmussen) writes:
>As a sort of informal market survey, I would like to ask the owners of IBM
>PC's or clones (NOT PS/2's) if they would consider purchasing a sound card for
>their machine capable of playing 8-bit stereo samples.  This would give the PC
>sound rivaling that of the Amiga and Macintosh.  One advantage of this card
>over other 8-bit sound cards for the PC would be that it would use DMA for
>playback, and that it would offer two channel playback.  Also, the sample
>rates would be variable, in steps, up to a maximum of 44 khz, which is better
>than both the Amiga and Macintosh offer (to the best of my knowledge). 

The only limit that the Amiga has on the output speed is the speed of the
processor used. Which means that you can play sample at a rate of 100kHz
easily.

>sampling hardware, or provisions for sampling would probably be included. 
>

The way I did the 8-bit stereo samples by plugging a dac to the printer
parallel port. It worked rather well and was wery cheap, about $3. I also
plugged a adc to the port to allow me to sample some data in to the PC,
it didn't cost much more than the dac.

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