On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, John Gay wrote:
> I recently came across a deal on a SoundBlaster AWE 64 ISA...
> [...] but the DOC's for the sound card says it needs at least a Pentium.
That's because it's not really a 64-voice soundcard. It's basically an
AWE-32 with some hooks for special software. It does 32 voices in
hardware, and 32 voices in software. (In Windows, that is.)
In Linux, it basically acts like an AWE 32. You shouldn't have a problem.
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 ray.ingles@fanucrobotics.com
"Improvements succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had
never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers,
because new improvements had superceded their utility."
Charles Babbage 'On the Economy of Manufactures' 1832