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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Samual Acorn wrote:

> for those out there using AWE32s and either have an sblive or have a
> friend with an sblive there are (read:should be) 2 files installed
> along with the sblive driver;
> ct2mgm.sf2 and ct4mgm.sf2 (2 mb and 4 mb in size)
> give one of em a sfxload (whichever fits... if you have the ram it
> will load...) and compare it to the default AWE soundfont....

I think the PCI sblive would not play midi files with OSS sound system, 
only ALSA, which I have no idea how to use.  I gave up on them and put in 
AWE64 (which you can't add RAM to and may come with only 1MB, I forget).

But it is getting harder to find newer computers with enough ISA slots for 
the AWE cards.

> amazing how much has changed in 12 years eh? (the AWE and live sound
> the same to me... the live just likes to eat the PCI bus and system
> ram since it doesnt have its own onboard ram/rom.... pitty... the card
> had much more potential...)

What potential?  Only advantage I could find it is did not use up an ISA 
slot, which I need for modems, MGA cards, older scsi cards, PCMCIA 
controller cards, I/O cards for computers with dead onboard 
IDE-floppy-serial-parallel controllers....  I have some computers with 
only two ISA slots.

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