rasz_pl wrote on 2024-05-06, 14:15:
You are right that PicoMEM might not need additional compute power, but PicoGUS is already running overclocked and barely fits in performance constraints.
What block the PicoGUS to do more is that everything is in RAM. (To support the high overclocking)
This limit the number of audio core that can run at the same time.
Also, the audio buffer size is reduced to the minimum, to improve the accuracy.
The GUS emulation needs more CPU power to support DMA, where the PC Does the mixing than doing the actual mixing, because DMA Talk more rapidly to the ISA Bus.
Hopefully, Add MPU with audio is not needed with GUS but with Sound Blaster, that is really less CPU intensive than the GUS, this can allow the PicoGUS to do Both.
The question here was SB with ne2000.
ne200 is not CPU intensive as most of the job is done by the Wifi chip. It should not be a problem to add it with SB, even with GUS.