On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Pete French wrote: > 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)
yeah. > 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. hm I have this chipset the audio is horrible, I also had a problem using reiserfs which caused almost daily reboots, I switched to ext3 and didn't reboot for 162 days after that (until the wind blew down a powerline). No one thinks this makes the least bit of sense, but it's true. Probably why the motherboard I have is/was the top choice for low priced cpu/mb combos (ECS K7VZA) > 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. hehe rhetorical question: how could it sound better than the original machines? If it sounds cleaner that's 'less true' to the original and hence worse. Zookeeper's music should sound like crap from what I remember of the original arcade machine! Some ISA soundcards are good, but read up on support for your OS. brian --- All progress is the work of fanatics All fanatics are the work of progress 12:00pm up 6 days, 4:34, 6 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
