Subject: Re: Mac Sound Chips
To: Michael Peters <sailor@oro.net>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/19/1997 14:28:13
> 
>   Greetings,  I have noticed that sound support under Mac68k-NetBSD seems
> to be a somewhat undeveloped area ATM.  While I'm not sure I could take
> the project on my shulders, I would like to look into it further.  Does
> anyone know where I could get more info on the sound chips used in the
> current set of supported macs?  I'd like to see all the 8bit sound
> machines supported.  With my recent discovery of the Zip Drive, I think I
> have the disk space to try putting better sound stuff into the kernel (but
> again, that's heavily dependent on RL).  Many thanks, I'm woefully new to
> the developement circles.

Yea! Sound'd be nice. :-)

The only support of which I know is the Guide to the Macintosh Family
Hardware, second edition. It talks about everything through the IIci.
Not much is known about the more recent chips, except that they
are probably different.

Take care,

Bill