Re: Commodore 64 kills APPLE II

[Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com>]

realbacon@hotmail.com (Niklas Ramsberg) writes:
> IIRC, the IIgs sound chip is the same as in the Ensoniq Mirage, i.e.
> it has 16 voices that plays 8-bit sampled and/or wavetable sounds
> (they're not the same thing, even though that's what Creative has been
> trying to make us believe)

For those of us not well-versed in this area, what is the difference
between sampled and wavetable?  Are you just referring to arbitrary
duration sampled sounds vs. fixed-size wavetables, or is there some other
difference?

Thanks!
Eric