SoundBlaster Pro Hardware and Direct Sound Ready AC97
Digital Audio Controller
Dual full-duplex Direct Sound channels between system memory and AC97 link
PCI master interface with scatter / gather and bursting capability
32 byte FIFO of each direct sound channel
Host based sample rate converter and mixer
Standard v1.0 or v2.0 AC97 Codec interface for single or cascaded AC97
Codec’s from multiple vendors
Loopback capability for re-directing mixed audio streams into USB and 1394
speakers
Hardware SoundBlaster Pro for Windows DOS box and real-mode DOS legacy
compatibility
Plug and play with 4 IRQ, 4 DMA, and 4 I/O space options for SoundBlaster
Pro and MIDI hardware
Hardware assisted FM synthesis for legacy compatibility
Direct two game ports and one MIDI port interface
Complete software driver support for Windows-95/98/2000 and Windows-NT