Re: /dev/audio?

[Ulrich Kuehn <kuehn@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>]

|>> I've just thought of writing a /dev/audio for MiNT. Before I try(!) to do so,
|>> I'd like to know if there's any need for that, and, if so, what specifications
|>> will be useful. Or did anybody already did that?
|>
|> Nice Idea, but if you want it SUN compatible, you'll have two problems:
|>
|>1) If you write a routine using the "ordinary" PSG for output, you'll get a
|>poor quality.
|>
|>2) If you want to write a routine using STE/TT DMA-Sound, problems will even
|>be bigger, cause they use different sampling rates and can't handle the
|>logarithmic compression/expansion.
|>
As far as I know there is already such a thing existing, but only for DMA
sound devices. It was written by Karsten Isakovic, but I never heard that
is was released already :(

Ulrich