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To: Kevin Sheehan <kevin@planb.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Creative "Sound Blaster Live" compatability?
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Kevin Sheehan wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 01:46:58PM -0800, Dave Walton wrote:
> >
> > I think the cheapest card I've seen with optical I/O was around $400
> > (Zefiro ZA2).  Cards with coax SPDIF I/O (such as the Live!) can be
> > had for a lot less.
> 

> Could either of these help?
> 
> http://freud.et.tudelft.nl/~pulsarfm/opto_coax.htm
> 
> http://mason.gmu.edu/~gsopko/spdifttl.html

Ah, excellent.  After browsing around briefly, I found this, which lo
and behold, has optical, as well as coax, connections.

http://www.soundblaster.com/sound/i-o-card/

And add on for the Live.  Great.  Still no FreeBSD support though, but
hopefully this will get done eventually through the Open Sound System. 
If you, like me, are a little niave about multimedia and unix then the
following is worth a look.

http://www.4front-tech.com/oss.html

The Live gets a mention, but support is not expected anytime very soon.

Thanks all for enlightening me wrt this lot.  I'll probably end up
getting an AWE64 Gold, and a box for conversion.

Best wishes all.

G.


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