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From: rnm@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Marsanyi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: CHEAP 16-bit STEREO sound samplers
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Date: 20 Jun 91 06:59:58 GMT
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The Sunrize board incorporates DSP, which adds significantly to the cost
of the stuff.  The lowest price on a 56000 I know of (I'm not too up on it,
last time I bought one was last year) was ~$70 in an odd package called a
SLAMPack.  Static RAM also required.  Decent A/D/A over $100 (for example,
the new chips from Crystal).
 
For those interested, there _is_ a hackers DSP project happening.  The
GMP/56K board is a bare board + parts, available from Digital Intermedia
for near cost.  It's a bare-bones 56K + RAM sockets + port interfaces.
The "company" is a bunch of guys I know; there are about 20 people currently
bringing boards up.  In the works is A/D/A using the above-mentioned chip 
from Crystal.  Several of us are interfacing to the Amiga, at present using
a simple device for addressing through the parallel port.  Cost, when I 
bought my board, was about $200 + the time to put it together.
 
There's a BBS carrying info on the project.  ( 415 ) 928 8246, excluding
9am-5pm weekdays.

Needed: a decent 56000 software development environment on the Amiga.  Any-
thing out there?
 
--rbt
(robert@f24.n125.z1.fidonet.org)