Assembly

Are you talking about writing actual low-level drivers to directly manipulate the sound cards and send/receive data through it, or use pre-existing libraries/drivers. The latter seems more realistic, and if that's what you mean, it shouldn't be a too much harder than doing it in C/C++ (more time-consuming, but probably not a whole lot harder). You just need to know how to use memory, registers and function calls. Once you've done what you're trying to do in a higher-level language, it will probably be a lot easier to do in assembly.

I'm not sure what processor you're planning on writing for, but try Googling for a tutorial in whichever one you choose and you can probably find some good stuff. To start off, I suggest using asm blocks in C++. This allows you to write assembly inside of a C++ function, and is a good way to start learning, without having to write a whole program in assembly (though that's not too hard either, just time-consuming).

Hi,

you can try this for example:
http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~brodskye/sb16doc/sb16doc.html

But you need an sb compatible card to do it (and I don't know whether xp will allow a non-ring0 code to access ports directly). However, I did some sb16 programming in asm in the good old DOS days according to an older version of this document.
So if you really want to, it's possible.

Peter

TheBluMage thanx that is really helping :)

kovacsp nah nah no drivers ... i just want to get a note out threw the sound card ....... i dont know how to explain this ..... ermm lets say i wanted to make a piano app and the code has to be coded in asm, and the output must be generated by the sound card .... :S