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>>board to hit the market.

>I'm not sure about how well-supported or how effective the Diamond sound
>support will be, based on reading the press release.  I didn't notice
>any mention of DAC, only software-based (or at least system RAM sample-based)
>wavetable.  Given how bad the chancy Monte Carlo board from Turtle Beach 
>was, I'm not eager to see a partially-hardware audio implementation,
>So maybe the audio bit is mainly marketing hype and nothing more;
>if it doesn't include some sort of DAC audio then you'll still have to
>have a sound card anyway.

>--
>Russell Webb
>rw...@panix.com
It has a full audio DSP performing the wavetable and hardware FX mixing.
There is a CODEC on their (looks like AD1848 that is used on the
Ensoniq boards).  Due to the hardware mixing, you are able to play 
multiple WAV audio streams, so like in Windows you could play multiple
programs sending WAV data.  Definitely worth about $200 or more for the
sound.  It is Fat Labs certified too (i.e. approved by composers of
games like 7th guest, WC, Nascar, Loom, dozens of other games).

http://www.outer.net/fatman
-- 
Fred Mah  ---  fm...@ecn.purdue.edu
http://widget.ecn.purdue.edu/~fmah