SScorpio wrote on 2024-01-02, 23:28:
Shreddoc wrote on 2024-01-02, 19:49:
Interestingly, a coder called sammargh has just developed an (apparently working) proposal to run multiple cards in the same machine : one dedicated to MPU duties, and another to misc other firmwares e.g. GUS.
https://github.com/polpo/picogus/pull/27
I guess a musician could pull off something with multiple cards, but outside of the joystick driver, everything is geared around music in games which would only be using a single device at a time. Otherwise I'm not really sure what having a GUS and MPU401 running at the same time would accomplish. The GUS's lackluster digital sound support makes having an SB16 pair with a PicoGUS make sense. You could always just utilize the Sound Blaster MPU401, anything you're doing would be custom, so why would you need intelligent mode?
There's no shortage of vintage hardware enthusiasts who choose to run multiple (real hardware) devices, all configured to work together within the one machine.
If someone has a couple of PicoGUSes - as quite a few early v1.x adopters do, what with the 5-PCB minimum JLC order many of us went with - and wants to, for example, play Doom with MPU music and GUS sound FX, or any one of the 1001 other possible combinations the imagination can (and, at places like Vogons, often does) dream up, I'm onboard with that.