Creative labs has improved its awe 64 gold by adding dolby surround
sound. The new model will be called
a w e 64 gold c m s 2
it will be available in early 98 for a retail price of 199.
in addition they are introduceing a p c i bus mastering sound card.
it will have the new e m u 8008 chip on board that has a large internal
cashe to smooth out real audio.
it will be called the
a w e 64 d
this will also be available early next year and will also be integrated
into the mother board as an option if you want integrated sound.
this is also going to be backwards compatible with their dos standard.
to make the p c i sound card dos compatible the mother board had to be
modified to do this.
if your mother board has the s b link which is found on mother boards that
have the t x chip set and l x chip set.
then you can enjoy dos compatibility with this sound card.
well creative labs did not stop their.
they also introduced a third sound card at comdex called
creative live
all of the above applies to this p c i sound card that applies to its p c
i cousin mentioned above.
it uses a differant chip called the e m u 10k1
this chip is the one i think we have been waiting for.
its 1000 mips processor screams.
if i understand what they are saying on their web page it should be able to
do multiple streams in real time with out useing the main c p u.
translation it should allow one to use real audio and software speech at
the same time.
we will have to here it to believe it.
in addition this sound card supports a surround sound that uses eight speakers.
just thought this list might find this interesting.
they did not give release time on this one.
Steve Metcalfe
Division of Assistive Resources and Technology
University of Lincolnshire & Humberside, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1482 440550 ext. 4029
Fax: +44 (0)1482 441411
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