From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 10:32:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA15312 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:32:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA15307 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:32:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA04887; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:26:55 -0800 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:26:55 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Gary Kline cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailgroup Subject: Re: New SB board.... (new toys?) In-Reply-To: <9603122031.AA16312@tera.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Gary Kline wrote: > I've just heard of something new (?) from the SoundBlaster > people named the AWE 32. Does anybody know about this? If > it would be a drop in replacement for my present SB board? I wouldn't call it new..mine is 6 months old :-) Basically, yes. It's an SB16 with a wavetable chip put on the end. The sound is incredible, BUT I haven't tried itunder FreeBSD. And if you intend on doing mbone anytime, DON'T buy it and get a GUS PnP instead. Most DOS games nowadays have native support for it, and it sounds **wonderful**. > MIDI is turning out to get something that I could really > get into... and I am not about to buy DOS. What is available for MIDI on UNIX? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major