Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:14:04 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: AW: [LIB] Has no one played with recording audio?
>Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:41:30 +0800 >From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: AW: [LIB] Has no one played with recording audio? > > > >As I think Neil pointed out in a post coming up, old 486 systems with 8MB >used to be able to record audio pretty darned well. So there may just be >some tweaks I need to discover to get this WavJammer going. > >I remember using my old 486sx33 with 4 meg of RAM and a SB Pro to do audio >work ... but remember, back then the quality wasn't anywhere near as good >and the hardware wasn't as bloated (remember, shoving audio through a USB >cable is a lot of work for a slow processor). The OS (MS-DOS at the time) >wasn't as bloated either! More to the point, most of the software didn't go anywhere near the OS - in the days of W3, you could ignore any other processes on the system, and for audio, you did. It was reasonably easy, even on things as slow as 486sx33 or even 25, to do useful things if your program was the sole user: I had a 25 running a display for the World Service, with sychronised cross-fading graphics displays, real time control of external hardware and pushbuttons, and able to play a cue track, record to the disk, and replay to an external tape machine simultaneously... it's not hard when MS doesn't get it's fingers in the pie. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
