> > The 68K core inside Dragonball processors cannot handle enough
> > MIPS to do this. Sony is doing it via dedicated hardware, partly
> > because of the performance limitation and partly because sound
> > output is poor in palm devices, to say the least...
>
> I doubt it, my friend played some mp3's on his amiga 1200 (12-17MHz, I
am not sure) and it has much less MHz then Palms (at least my Visor
Platinum has 33MHz)
> But it is true, that these mp3's had to be low bitrated or 22kHz
only...
The Amiga has much easier to program sound hardware -- on that machine,
you could setup a buffer of samples and have the source hardware
automatically playback from it. On a Palm device, you have to directly
drive the PWM from the CPU, handling a CPU interrupt for each sample.
Very, very ugly, and much more overhead than on the Amiga.
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