PATCH: Preliminary DMA and SOUNDBLASTER emulation

[Christian Costa]

Andreas Mohr a écrit :
> 
> On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 01:51:05PM -0700, Dustin Navea wrote:
> > which sound cards is this meant for?  i have a live
> > platinum 5.1, is it to be used by people who _do_ or
> > who _dont_ have sb cards?  i must be missing the
> > point, but what is the need for sb emulation?
> Of course it's meant to be for people with *all* kinds of sound cards.
> 
> Believe it or not, but there was a time when you had great difficulties
> getting any sound card other than a true SoundBlaster.
>
Yes, that's true. And the first serious alternative was the gravis
ultrasound. A great card.
 
> The need is this:
> A SoundBlaster emulation is BEAUTIFUL :-)
> 
> (as you'll be able to play all shockingly old DOS games with *real* sound :)
>
However, few of them run under WINE :-(
>
> Thanks for this very cool patch !!!
> 
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