New A-EON Music Card for Classic Amigas

[Matt_H]

Well hot damn! Depending on how the software support works out (mpeg.device compatible decoding API?) this might replace my Delfina...

[Matt_H]

It's something we're looking into, definitely. I've not looked at the mpeg library for a while so can't remember the API.. but it would be nice to be widely supported by existing software as well as the new programs!

delfinampeg.device is what I currently use - source code is available if you need some reference material: http://aminet.net/package/mus/play/dmdev

[Matt_H]

Also here's a really dumb question:  AHI and MHI.  AHI is a retargetable system that allows the use of different audio cards by any application that supports the AHI standard.  And MHI is more of a streaming library just for playing back mp3/mpeg streams, correct?

(obviously I don't do a whole lot of audio work on my system, lol)

Not a dumb question at all! But yes, you've pretty much got it. MHI is to hardware decoding as AHI is to audio playback. Write a program to support AHI and it can use any audio card for which there's a driver. Write a program to support MHI and it can use any hardware decoding card for which there's a driver.

Unfortunately, I think the only program that uses MHI is AmigaAmp...