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- From: drake@dragon.cpe.ulowell.edu (Frank Drake)
- Subject: Re: sound board for a notebook
- In-Reply-To: solid@dragon.acadiau.ca's message of 26 Jan 93 20:56:10 GMT
- Message-ID: <DRAKE.93Jan27102604@dragon.cpe.ulowell.edu>
- Sender: usenet@ulowell.ulowell.edu (News manager - ulowell)
- Organization: University of Massachusetts Lowell
- References: <1993Jan26.205610.20803@dragon.acadiau.ca>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:26:04 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.205610.20803@dragon.acadiau.ca> solid@dragon.acadiau.ca (Tomasz Muldner) writes:
- > I have two notebooks, LITE25 Compaq and Zenith, both running Windows 3.1.
- > I am looking for a sound board/CDROM for either of these computers.
- > Any help will be appreciated.
-
- I recently tried out the MediaVision AudioPort on a Compaq notebook (not
- sure which model - it wasn't mine). Here is what I found:
-
- 1. Although they claim SoundBlaster compatibility in a DOS window,
- I couldn't get this to work.
-
- 2. Just to make sure it worked, I used its driver under Winodws to play
- a couple of standard sounds. This worked fine (although I wouldn't
- call this an exhaustive test of its functionality).
-
- 3. It's programmer's toolkit is somewhat thin (compared to that of the
- PAS or the SB) and, since it works off the parallel port, its
- interface looks NOTHING like those of the SB and PAS boards, with
- DMA, etc.
- Nobody has said anything to me about this, but I'm sure that they'll
- be supplying better tools for development sometime in the future.
-
- I guess it depends on your requirements. If you are looking for a sound
- board for Windows, this might work. If you are looking for SB compatibility,
- you may be disappointed.
-
- Creative Labs has a new product that works off the parallel port, much like
- this does.
-
- BTW, for my needs, we got a Compaq LITE 386/25 (I think) and its expansion
- box, and put a SoundBlaster right in it. Worked fine.
-
- Good Luck!
-
- Frank
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