On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:18:43AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> > > I'd like to hear if somebody knows about multi-channel soundscards, which
> > > would/could work.
> > I'm not sure that's really all that important? I've never used any such
> > card, but OpenAL has been working nicely for me on powerpc, amd64 and
> > i386. I suspect the real questions are
> > * Do m68k machines typically have enough horse power for OpenAL to
> > reasonably mix the stereo stream?
>
> Well, even low-horsepowered boxes like a standard A1200 can mix 4 8bit
> Channel into 2 14bit channels without many problems. (The 14bit thing is
> limited by hardware, not the processing power).
BTW, the driver (dmasound) treats 14 bit like 16 bit.
> > * Do m68k machines typically meet the other requirements of games
> > that use OpenAL? In particular, most if not all of them seem to
> > require 3D acceleration.
>
> I don't thing there's an uptodate 3D graphic card for Amigas at least with
> enough power to be usuable. There are of course some Virge3D based cards out
> there, but I don't know how well supported these are, because I don't own
> such as card.
>
> I believe 3D on m68k is rather useless nowadays, but if someone knows better
> than me, please shout now! :-)
Indeed, until someone gets the Mediator going, and we can start using generic
PCI graphics cards.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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