[News] AD516 AHI Driver For Amiga, YES ITS TRUE!! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 28-Apr-2002 07:07 GMT by Szutoman | 43 comments View flat View list |
Thought the AD516 Sound Card was useless, NOT!!! Chris Brenner has written a Driver and reverse engineered it, so now all Amiga users can use it with AHI.
Th Sunrize's AD516 has been one of the most interesting ZII audio boards. Unfortunately, until now, there weren't any drivers of any kind for this card, leaving owners in need for realtime software with the only option to use Studio16, the application developed for this hardware by Sunrize and bundled with the product.
Lack of detailed documetation, and the fact that Sunrize left the market, prevented from taking advantage from more modern non-linear editing software, developed years after Studio16. Until now.
Chris Brenner just relesed his new excellent AHI driver, avalable on aminet, that now allows AHI-compatible applications to access the AD516 A/D D/A converters (for SMPTE support, Studio16 is still the right tool). Several applications have been already tested and work fine.
Early reports about ProStationAudio and this new development say that the driver exhibits low-latency, extremely important to allow using mixing automation and the 30+ realtime DSP effects for ProStationAudio. More info soon, as they arrive.
To donwload the driver, search for "AD516" on aminet. Info about the developer are into the driver archive, don't forget to send him feedback.
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Posted by Phill on 29-Apr-2002 09:19 GMT | In reply to Comment 9 (AUGOP- AMIGA USERS GROUP OF PENSACOLA): The sad point is that pci is so much like zorro3 ( to the point of patent infringement ) that arguing over which one is realtime is ridiculous.
Bringing implementation details like north and southbridge chips the argument is even more absurd, otherwise we'll have to put up with arguments about whether an althon with pci is better than an a500+512kb ram expansion.
Interrupts aren't really handled much different on the amiga and pc. If everything is designed correctly then there are no problems with sharing interrupts. Don't think for one second that all Amiga zorro cards were designed correctly or they wouldn't have had problems with zorro2 cards that don't work on some zorro3 backplanes etc. The problem with PCI is that it is so well supported & there is so much choice, a problem that the Amiga hasn't had in a very long time.
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