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From: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster vs AdLib
Message-ID: <8014@chorus.fr>
Date: 27 Feb 91 13:55:17 GMT
References: <4854@czech.sw.mcc.com> <1991Feb26.191530.2381@d.cs.okstate.edu>
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Reply-To: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski)
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In article <1991Feb26.191530.2381@d.cs.okstate.edu>, ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) writes:
%% From article <4854@czech.sw.mcc.com>, by daneman@czech.sw.mcc.com (Michael Daneman):
%% > Let me get this straight once and for all.  Can AdLib play digitized
%% > speach or do you need SB for that.  I know that AdLib does not have a
%% > microphone input, but does it not do digitized sound either?
%% 
%% SB has a 8-bit digital voice output channel (and also 8-bit input), Adlib does
%% not have it (Adlib does not have STEREO too, even if you want to pay
%% $20 for the optional chip!).

But there is no stereo on the SB either, except for sounds produced with
the 2 now optional CM/S chips.

I have an utility to play digitized sounds on a straight AdLib. But it is
only a limited demo/advertisement.

As a matter of fact, what is that optional $20 chip for the AdLib?
-- 
Adam Mirowski,  mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE),  tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74
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