Re: tlug: Sound Blaster Live! (resend posted this from wrong account before)

[Christopher Sekiya <wileyc@example.com>]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 09:48:50AM +0900, Jim Tittsler wrote:

> The signal-to-noise ratio is also considerably better than the typical SB16

Right, I'd certainly hope so ;)

> Creative bought E-MU back in 1993, well before the Emu10K1 chip.

Hmmm.  This was the information upon which I was relying:

>I called Creative about the Live and got the run around.  When I became
>frustrated I started pushing a bit harder.  This is unofficial, but I
>never heard back from them, so I will speak what I was told.  Creative
>bought out Emu.
>
>The Live has an Emu chip as it's main component.  One of the reasons at
>the point of my call (in late Sept I think) that no driver info was
>released was because Emu was still patenting parts of the chip.  The
>person at Emu I heard this from suspected that info might be available
>once the patents were filed.

Not the case?

-- Chris
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