> I'm not loving my VIA onboard sound. Was thinking of getting a new, cheap pci > card. Sounds like xmame doesn't work great with soundblaster 64 or 128, > though these are the cards that seem to abound on ebay. What do people > recommend?
Its more a question of what sound card works best with your operating system rather than what works best with Xmame, because (as I understand the code) Xmame uses the operating systems abstraction to talk to the sound card. (Is this correct ? Thats the way I've ported Xmame to systems) SB Live is worth avoiding if your have AMD processors and a VIA chipset, as there are known problems wiith this combination - if you are not using SCSI drives and having to rely on the onboard controller then it can corrupt the disc. There are BIOS patches for this, and also a Linux workaround if you happen to be running that, but how effective they are at fixing this problem is still open to question as its a hardware timing issue. Personally I'm still using ISA soundcards, and am extremely happy with them. To my ears they sound pretty good with a decent set of speakers, and work fine under FreeBSD , OpenStep and Windows NT (98 doesnt like it very much but thats being disposed of pretty soon!). Mame on all the first three platforms sounds at least as good as the original arcade machines. But I sttill think the best advice is to find the sound card reported as working best with whatever OS you happen to be running, cheers, -bat. _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
