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The scheme was published in the ninth Adventurer'e and
caused similar interest. Thus, the device is a new four-channel
sound card with the quality, if you believe the author of the
scheme, better than Sound Blaster, and the player will eat the
same number of cycles how much and AY. Under the card is
already written MOD PLAYER. That is, Basically, the future of
the card is. But if you look closely, not all rulezno so it
seems.
First of all, memory. His memory DMA SOUND does not possess,
Instead, the card directly accesses the upper memory
computer. On the one hand it is good that through this
solutions reduces the cost of the device. On the other hand,
most worth 128k of memory. If mode listen, reluctantly,
you can, then what about creating a decent game out of the
question can (or am I wrong?). Set itself a map to play
Tetris with digitization? And the more memory just is not
enough. It By the way, and so is not enough - read ZXNEWS with
a report on the establishment "Awaken".
The second problem is the absence of the manufacturer. Yet
existing copies are made "on the wires" that can be
acceptable for zhelezyaschika, but is not suitable for
conventional user. However, there is an opportunity to make a
custom board factory quality (along with the card can be
diluted and others devices such as disk drive controller card
and the Kempston mouse), but everything is not smooth: the cost
of fees is inversely proportional their number (the higher
fees, the cheaper it will cost). A Here's wishing to have the
DMA SOUND yet to score at more than 4 people, which lead to
cheaper cards can not.
It is, objectively speaking. And my personal opinion is:
at this stage DMA SOUND is another "sound drive" 'om,
true quality. That the device has become popular
must go to the memory size of at least 512Kb, for
Many problematic. Problem could be solved connection SIMM,
but again finished circuit is just under the "Pentagon". But
if it were available circuits (c recommendations
establish) the "byte", "Baltic" and the like, then I am sure
that memory problems would be solved.
Nevertheless, would be a shame if lost is good,
general, development. Perhaps this issue I will return, but
It would be interesting to know more about your opinions.
