Re: PATCH: Preliminary DMA and SOUNDBLASTER emulation

[Andreas Mohr]

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.

The need is this:
A SoundBlaster emulation is BEAUTIFUL :-)

(as you'll be able to play all shockingly old DOS games with *real* sound :)

Thanks for this very cool patch !!!