don@brahms.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) (12/01/90)
There's been talk for quite some time now about device-independent
graphics libraries to allow the Amiga to once again become competitive in
the relatively high-end graphics markets. Apparently this is being worked
on, and will be nice to see when it gets here.
Recent Amiga VS NeXT discussions have brought up sound & DSP boards,
and mentioned that the DSP boards currently available for the Amiga
have almost 0 software support.
To remedy this, what I'd like to see is a device independent _sound_
library, so future products would be easily used by all sound software.
I don't know much about sound or DI libraries, but I imagine one for
sound wouldn't be too much more difficult than one for graphics.
(I may be way off there, and if I am I'm sure I'll hear all about it :-).
With the rising importance of multimedia and the Amiga's prominent place
in that market, such a library would be very useful. It would also
make provisions for future Amigas to encorporate something other than Paula.
Commodore would be, to the best of my knowledge, the first o implement
such a library, which would add tremendously to their credibility in the
"mainstream" industry.
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