8 Apr
2007
8 Apr
'07
8:05 p.m.
On 8 Apr 2007 at 7:23, Dave Dunfield wrote:
Main reason I haven't gotten one yet. PCI card
with winblows drivers...
Soon as you have to go into that "complexity for the sake of complexity"
environment, things go a LOT slower - and I just don't have time (or
desire) to deal with it.
PCI with the Catweasel doesn't imply Windows or any other high-level
OS. Using the PCI BIOS PNP services under real-mode MS-DOS to
identify the I/O ports is quite simple and gives you freedom from
worrying about configuration switches. I have both ISA and PCI
catweasels and find no real difference in the difficulty of
programming them (although there are differences in the way the ports
are defined).
Additionally, you CAN write your own 32 bit real mode code (DJGPP)
using a DPMI server. Given that the track buffer on a CW is about
(IIRC) 128K, this actually makes a lot of sense, when you're sucking
in a track and working with it.
I mean, what else are you going to do with half a gig of memory--
run Windows? ;-)
Cheers,
Chuck