Re: the slotlessness of sound cards

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@telus.spamless.net>]

Anonymous Coward wrote:
> WAAAAY back on Jan 12 1999 (doing my homework!), Supertimer wrote:
>
>
> > Hi, the Sonic Blaster plugs into a slot and the cable plugs into
> > the Ensoniq connector on the motherboard (J25, I think).
> > You do not need drivers and you do not need to set the card
> > to 'your card.'  The Sonic Blaster is just an
> > amplifier/demultiplexer.  It works completely transparently.
>
>
> Even further back, in 1992, Jamie P Yoon wrote:
>
>
> > The MIDI isn't very well supported, I hear.  There is an update to
> > DiversiTune that will work with the Audio Animator.  I don't know about
> > other music software.
>
>
> Which makes me wonder... if there was a piece of software with a
> patch specific to a particular sound card (Audio Animator), are
> all the sound cards able to be used "slotlessly", or do some (which?)
> require using the "Your Card" setting?

If you're just using the card for playback then the slot setting
isn't important. If you want to input sound then you need a slot set
to "your card".

Wayne