rspangle@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Randy Spangler) (06/17/90)
On the current thread about sampling and sample playback, how fast can you reliably poll the joystick ports and parallel port? The joystick ports would seem to be ideal for sampling, since the two 8-bit analog inputs would either give 8-bit stereo or 16-bit mono if you could figure out how to split a signal into an upper and lower magnitude. 8-bit mono at 16KHz would be plenty good, though. I can handle wiring circuitry to clip input (so I don't burn out my game port) but I have no idea what the fastest way to poll the game port is. I'm sure it's machine dependent - I have a 16MHz 386 (for now :-). Also, is there a fast way to output data to the parallel port, which won't be caught by the MODE program (which redirects my printer output to COM1)? Explanations, references, and/or source code would all be helpful. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Randy Spangler | The less things change, the | | rspangle@jarthur.claremont.edu | more they remain the same | --------------------------------------------------------------------------