I have built one, but i cant find the page I used to make it. There are a few ways of doing it. mine requires only one chip for buffering, and an LED of the right peak frequency. Radio Shack has one, again, web pages out there have the RS catalog number. It requires a 5 volt power supply, which i tapped from somewhere on my board. I put a port on the front that supplies the signal, power, and ground. (digital's ground is common). i then hook up a blue box with an LED hanging off it, tape an optical cable to the led, and put the other end in the MD recorder.
The EMU chip drives this port, which is only used for midi, so all it is is a digital midi audio out. If you want to play MP3s, use mpg123 and the AWE Wave Player at http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/home/jwittema/awe/awe. html its not perfect (studders), but its free and prolly cant be done on windows.
"It looks like PowerPC could well become the preferred RISC architecture for Linux."
x86 is not RISC. The point that i get from this is not that PowerPC linux boxen will overtake x86, just that the Merced will be all too expensive. Opening the door for a more afordable alternative, which alpha has proven not to be. The point is that PowerPC with the help of IBM's proposal will make powerful RISC systems that run linux which are more affordable than the Merced alternative. If the archetecure bound to it is proven to be superior, its all up to the programmers after that.
me and my friends have been calling them "metric megs" and "binary megs" for a while. although with frequent use, one has became commonly called "metric megs bleegh":)
I can't wait till i start seeing the disk drives saying gibibytes and confusing people. We shall finally know who exactly is ripping us off. I know i hate it when i get only 60 megs of memory.
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I have built one, but i cant find the page I used to make it. There are a few ways of doing it. mine requires only one chip for buffering, and an LED of the right peak frequency. Radio Shack has one, again, web pages out there have the RS catalog number. It requires a 5 volt power supply, which i tapped from somewhere on my board. I put a port on the front that supplies the signal, power, and ground. (digital's ground is common). i then hook up a blue box with an LED hanging off it, tape an optical cable to the led, and put the other end in the MD recorder.
. html its not perfect (studders), but its free and prolly cant be done on windows.
The EMU chip drives this port, which is only used for midi, so all it is is a digital midi audio out. If you want to play MP3s, use mpg123 and the AWE Wave Player at http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/home/jwittema/awe/awe
"It looks like PowerPC could well become the preferred RISC architecture for Linux."
x86 is not RISC. The point that i get from this is not that PowerPC linux boxen will overtake x86, just that the Merced will be all too expensive. Opening the door for a more afordable alternative, which alpha has proven not to be. The point is that PowerPC with the help of IBM's proposal will make powerful RISC systems that run linux which are more affordable than the Merced alternative. If the archetecure bound to it is proven to be superior, its all up to the programmers after that.
Long Live PowerPC.
me and my friends have been calling them "metric megs" and "binary megs" for a while. although with frequent use, one has became commonly called "metric megs bleegh" :)
I can't wait till i start seeing the disk drives saying gibibytes and confusing people. We shall finally know who exactly is ripping us off. I know i hate it when i get only 60 megs of memory.
I like... but whats with the floppy?