New A-EON Music Card for Classic Amigas

[NovaCoder]

If we give them some Classic Amiga peripheral sales that they can wrap their head around, they may consider doing more for us.

Yes that's correct, at least they are doing something for us Classic users and should be thanked for the effort.

I assume AmigaKit had rather a strong influence on this project

Hopefully it will be a successful project and they'll produce some new bits in the future.

Not sure exactly how this would fit inside an A1200 desktop, I guess big box Amiga's are the target audience.

[NovaCoder]

The Ogg/FLAC decoding would come in very handy for both ScummVM and my SDL Mixer, how do you interface to them, is there going to provide some kind of library?

Also, can this card fit into an A1200 desktop?

[NovaCoder]

Imagine a MAS player that provides a click port or can be connected via one.
Then imagine that it can play OGG,  FLAC, WMA and WAV.
Then imagine it can encode audio input such as Paula into OGG or MP3 or whatever.
Then you have the Prisma.

What about AHI support?

Are you the guy doing the software library for this device?

[NovaCoder]

Yes, I'm "the guy"

Feel free to email me with ideas, suggestions and requests.

AHI is a possibility but not definite yet as the hardware is more geared to decoding than raw playing- but does support raw wav playback.

Ok I'll send you an email so we can talk further....

[NovaCoder]

Hiya,

How's the AHI driver progressing?   Can you tell us anything about it yet the max sample rate or if it will support 16bit?

I just wondering if passing 16bit stereo sound to this card will take up less of the CPU cycles than using AHI with Paula.   In theory a real 16bit card would skip the conversion (down to 8/14 bit) which may give it a slight edge.

Some of my ports like ScummVM produce 16bit stereo sound and so I use AHI to deal with the conversion.

[NovaCoder]

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[NovaCoder]

Managed to get it to play a compressed music file OK, still some work to do of course.

I'll try and add OGG support to one of my ports next by using the libraries API.

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[NovaCoder]

I did a quick update to my upcoming Duke Nukem port tonight to add Prisma support.  After tracking down some really high quality OGG files of the game's original music it was really easy to do.   I've only given it a quick test but it doesn't appear to be adding a noticeable load on the CPU and it sounds fantastic.  

Spirantho has done a really good job with the library

I'm currently waiting for the video to be uploaded.....


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[NovaCoder]

@nova
do you think its possible to keep prisma detection and support within universal executable?

why im asking this is because of the versions mess on aminet where every cpu gets its own dedicated optimized executable. this is in many cases already a task for itself to find the right one. i think we should push towards plug and play philosophy where possible, too much thinkering puts the not so hardcore audience off.

It uses a library which means it will be upgradeable as long as the interface methods don't change.

[NovaCoder]

Odamex AGA...Prisma style!

[NovaCoder]

You cut your video off too early, I was just getting into the music!  :hammer:

Sorry my friend, I was running late!

[NovaCoder]

So for how much longer is this to be Vaporware?

It's not Vaporware if I have one

Seriously though, they obviously exists but AmigaKit/A-EON are not quite ready to release them yet.

[NovaCoder]

Soooo...  Can we buy it yet?  

I'm close to releasing the first game with Prisma support built in...very cool


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShVvAVELTQM

[NovaCoder]

It would be easy to make a Prisma.library that actually redirected to a software mpeg player. You wouldn't want to lose the OS though in that case.
Arcade games wouldn't benefit easily but something like Monkey Island could be done, I guess. Same with Sierra games.

Monkey Island, Sierra games and Eye of Beholder would be easy to support by adding the Prisma.library to ScummVM.

[NovaCoder]

Well you'll then need a more powerful Amiga than the Amiga version.

Kamelito

Not sure what you mean?

ScummVM runs these games just fine on my Classic Amiga