First post, by FeedingDragon
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When I first built my off system (in the process of re-building it again, as the old MB fried on me,) I purchased an AWE32 ISA card for the sound. I chose it over the 64 because the extremely few RAM upgrades I could find for the 64 were **"EXPENSIVE"** (the cheapest at that time was $400, seriously the prices some eBay vendors are asking...) So, I've been reading up on the daughter board options for the AWE32, and I'm faced with some questions that I cannot seem to find the answers for. One of the main reasons I'm considering getting one is that it is directly accessed through the MIDI port instead of having it's own port (like the WaveSynth of the AWE32.) So I would not need to use the AweUtil program to re-direct the MIDI functions of some of my games. So, on to the questions 😀
Would the daughter board be able to access the RAM on the main board? I imagine that might depend on which one I ended up getting, there are quite a few of them. I found one that has its own proprietary RAM add-on, but I would much prefer to avoid that. The cost of proprietary crap is always greatly multiplied for some reason. I have 32M installed on the AWE32 (yes, I know that only 28M is actually used,) I'd sort of like to be able to use that on the daughterboard. If a DOS soundfont loader is ever finished, it would be nice to have a daughterboard that can just loop back to the on board WaveSynth. From my understanding, that's all the daughterboard is anyways, a replacement WaveSynth, with possibly more voices, the "font" file in ROM instead of loaded into RAM, etc....
Advice? Suggestions? Thanks in advance 😀
Feeding Dragon