>The only way I ever got a 486 class PC to play MP3
>was to use the AMD 5x86 on a 40Mhz bus so it was
>running at 160Mhz. The version of WinAMP available
>at the time had an option to cut the playback
>quality to 22Khz and downmix stereo to mono. Even
>at that it would only play without skipping if
>WinAMP was the only thing running.
Like I said, not particularly well. :) But I'm fairly sure I was able
to squeeze a full quality MP3 out of that poor old 486/100. Just as
long as you didn't, say, use the mouse or access the hard drive. I'm
sure if you ran DOSAmp (or damp, xmms, etc) or something, it wouldn't
be a problem.
>An MP3 player for an 040 is going to have to be
>tons more efficient than WinAMP ever was to play
>MP3 with realtime decoding. I'm certain it won't
>do 44khz playback even on an 840AV. There might
>be a possibility of 44Khz stereo if the player
>app used the AV's DSP. But I'll for darn sure bet
>that it couldn't do anything but play MP3, just like
>my hotted up old 486. ;)
Darn, I was looking forward to listening to some tunes while doing a
20-point Gaussian blur in Photoshop along with that final Bryce
render in the background on my Centris. :P
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