Re: [LAU] [ANN] QXGEdit 0.0.1 released!

On Sunday 20 September 2009 16:52:08 Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> Dave Phillips wrote:
> > Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> >> Ten years after,
> >>
> >> nothing to do with Alvin Lee's but one by-product of this
> >> über-procrastinator of yours truly :) here goes one more strike to the
> >> Linux Audio ecosystem.
> >
> > Hi Rui,
> >
> > I discovered this one when I was writing my report on audio/MIDI
> > projects on SourceForge, I wondered then why you hadn't announced it.
> > Alas, I don't have the hardware to test it, but I'm glad you made an
> > editor for the piece.
>
> well, this thingie was in my tool-chain for quite some time. it was only
> this late summer vacation that brought it to sf.net and ultimately make
> the announcement today on the very last days of summer'09:)
>
> as said on the announcement, the db50xg daughter board it's a rare piece
> of junk. these days you can only find it on ebay as any soundcard
> providing a waveblaster connector that you need to plug it in.
>
> all my boxes have one of these, usually piggy backed on a turtle beach
> santa cruz pci sound card. it works perfect. but i do also have a pair
> of those stand-alone, in good ol'solder-iron-diy way from an elektor
> magazine pcb design (ca. june 96 iirc). btw, there's a german company, i
> guess located in karlsruhe (geist-electronic.de), that sells all parts,
> pcb and custom metal casing for you to revive this precious niche project.
>
> byee
>

I still use by sw60xg card. Damned good MIDI sound generator and uses no IRQ,
no DMA, the system does not know it's there (it does take an ISA slow and
these have gotten kind of rare nowadays). Forget ALSA support--use snd-mpu401
with the port set to where that card's jumpers are set--Yamaha recommended
this when there were no drivers yet for windows-2000. Nice dinosaur.

The non-opensource xgedit windows-95 program runs fine in WINE, but having
something native is a big plus. Will give this baby a try.
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Received on Mon Sep 21 00:15:06 2009