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In message Mon, 28 Mar 94 22:28:00 -0500, joseph.pereira@channel1.com (Joseph Pereira) writes: >>> 1) Turtle Beach is advertising a PCMCIA Audio Advantage sound card >>> for $99. Anyone know anything about this sound card, or any >>> way to give the 750c full Soundblaster compatibility with most >>> games? >>My guess is that it uses emulation for SB also. As a matter of fact, >> all the portable sound solutions I know of use emulation so far. It's >> up to Creative Labs to release a true SoundBlaster PCMCIA card... > I think you're right..... While I was in Korea I ran across an unbelievable number of SoundBlaster copycats. Apparently the chipset is very cheap and the hardware is very simple. The smallest I saw was a 1/3 height 8-bit card, barely larger than a PCMCIA card. Of course the sound quality left much to be desired. So it *should* be possible to make a hardware SB in PCMCIA format. I think the hangup is that the Yamaha chipset isn't the right size/voltage/whatever, and Yamaha isn't making any smaller ones. So everyone is making their own chipset and relying on software to do the emulation. Of course the SB is so old it's high time we got a new standard... -- John H. Kim | "Just try telling the IRS you don't feel like jokim@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu | 'contributing' this year come April" - Bob Dole This mail sent by NUPop | on Bill Clinton's avoidance of the word "taxes"