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From: ferris@tcville.HAC.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Programming Sound Blaster Card
Keywords: Sound Blaster
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Date: 2 Apr 91 22:23:39 GMT
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I have been hearing good reports about the Sound Blaster card, and I am 
close to starting up saving my nickels and dimes (unfortunately need 
a lot of those).  However, I have just a few questions about it.

Aside from games, my biggest interest in it is is writing software
for it.  Does it come with enough (any?) information to allow programs
to be written for it?  If not that, then does the company provide programming
information separately, but still available?

What sort of a burden does SoundBlaster place on the CPU?  Does the board
act as a completely separate processing unit, allowing the CPU to go
full bore on the other elements of a program?

Thanks for any information and tips about Sound Blaster you can provide.

Please e-mail, and I will summarize responses to the net if desired.

Mark Ferris                         smart:    ferris@tcville.edsg.hac.com
Image and Signal Processing Lab     dumb:     ferris%tcville@hac2arpa.hac.com
Hughes Aircraft Co., EDSG           uucp:     hacgate!tcville!ferris