The ink is far from dry on the Win95 drivers, and indeed on the development
libraries themselves, and I have already asked for enhancements to all of
them, such as full multi-channel I/O. It may be a while before drivers for
other platforms appear, and I doubt if they will let out low-level hardware
details to third parties. Perhaps it will in any case be reasonable for them
to get the Win95 support reasonably solid and complete first, (to say nothing
of NT), so that there can then be some level of cross-platform parity in the
development APIs. I think it is especially important for all those who do
have the Win95 installation to make their needs know to ADI - it seems to me
there is still a lot of development to be done yet, and that input can only
help that work.

One other problem which may impact on the porting of the card to the Mac,
SGI, etc is that, as far as I know, SHARC compiler/assembler support is not
(yet) available on these platforms - these will be needed by anyone who wants
to add new opcodes (which I am told will be supported in due course). So it
may be that, at least in the short to medium term,  developers for Mac etc
will need a Win95 system as well, for development at that level.

There may be a simple physical problem  for some platforms - tha card
occupies a single PCI slot, but uses two adjacent endplates.


Richard Dobson


Tony Grimwood wrote:

> > the ADI card only runs under Win95. It will run under any Pentium cpu.
>
> It's a PCI card which should plug into a Mac or maybe other boxes. Now if
> we could only chisel the driver info out of ADI...
>
> Peter Kerr
> School of Music University of Auckland