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From: scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster comments/queries
Message-ID: <1991Jan2.015216.16407@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 2 Jan 91 01:52:16 GMT
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In article <1990Dec30.123625.3020@d.cs.okstate.edu> ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (E. Teng Ong) writes:
>From article <4268@mindlink.UUCP>, by a48@mindlink.UUCP (Ullrich Fischer):
>> I've just got a Sound Blaster card for my XT. 
>> However, the manual that comes with it basically gives you just enough
>> information to run the demo programs that come with it.  They want another 
>> $100 US for the Developer's Kit which presumeably gives you the whole story.
>
>Most developer's kit from other companies (say Microsoft?) cost double or
>triple.

By contrast, the programmer's manual for the AdLib card only costs $24.95. 
Admittedly, the Sound Blaster has more capabilities, but I doubt the SB
programming manual is 4 times as big as the AdLib's! Of course, since the
Blaster is AdLib compatible, the AdLib manual might be worth getting as a
starting point (if you're the budget conscious sort). 




-- 
Scott Coleman                                                      tmkk@uiuc.edu

"Unisys has demonstrated the power of two. That's their stock price today."
       - Scott McNealy on the history of mergers in the computer industry.