Burkinshaw, Ian wrote: > Would it possible to allow input via the parallel port?
I'm not completely sure, but I think the answer is no. In fact doing a reliable output to the port is already quite challenging ;-) I think this can only be done through a printer driver or something similar. > Are there any plans to be able to use the PC's sound card, I know > you can control the CD Drive. But I would like to be able to create > and play WAV type files via QPC. Yes, there are plans. In fact I was planning to already have it implemented by now. And it wouldn't be hard to do if we had a decent sound system standard. The SSS is crap. It's good enough for the Q40 "sound system" (which is no system at all but just two D/A converter which get fed with new data in a 20kHz interrupt routine), but for anything that uses DMA looped buffer (i.e. all "real" sound systems) it's very hard to implement in a proper way. I gather the GoldFire will have a decent sound chip, too, so in the end it will face the same problem. I'm not really sure how to solve this issue, maybe it would be the best to design a new sound standard. This could be done in a way that it suites both DMA based systems and the Q40 interrupt/converters combo. And please no comments about me "attacking the Qx0". What I wrote above are simple facts. Cheers, Marcel
