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Subject: Re: xquake sound working over here 8) 
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Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 18:42:20 -0700
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Is one of those things that really help the whole system.
fast video, low latency sound, coold 3d graphics, and most important
games like quake show off that it can be done on a unix box 8)


	Cheers,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Jamie Bowden :
> On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> 
> > The sound driver guspnp15 will support mapping the dma buffer to userland.
> 
> > Just enjoyed a nice demo of xquake with sound over here 8)
> 
> > The bad news is that my test program is broken so I have to figured out
> > what is wrong :( Funny, because I got my test program to work first
> > and xquake didn't work so the situation is now reverse also
> > my test program is a FreeBSD binary and xquake is a linux binary :(
> 
> > At any rate, by Friday, I should have the guspnp15 ready.
> 
> > My motivation to get quake sound working? Just to be ready for
> > the release of the Linux GLQuake with 3d hardware assist for 
> > my Diamond Monster 3d card (3dxf chipset http://www.3dfx.com).
> 
> Glad to see what motivates you.  :)  I think better Quake support would be
> awesome.
> 
> Jamie Bowden
> 
> System Administrator, iTRiBE.net
>