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Article #98614Re: killer sound card???
From: Stephen Friederichs
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 00:00
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Adam Field wrote: > > What t/zYko/ wrote: > > > > Real Boba Fett wrote: > > > > > > Neil W. Roache wrote: > > > > > > > > I am looking to buy a new sound card and i have no clue about what is good > > > > on the market. Any suggestions? It would be for a 166 mhz pentium system. > > > > I would like something high performance.. > > > > > > > > thanks > > > > neil -- > > > > nro...@erols.com > > > > > > Sound Blaster AWE64. But I have AWE32 and it is almost the same... > > > except the price! SB AWE32 is really better than 16. My friend has a > > > SB16 and I listen to his MIDIs: it is ugly! Then he listened to mine... > > > he tought they were WAVs!!!! > > > > What's important here is that you get a card with a wavetable synth with > > MIDI compability. If you're games-only I agree on the AWE64 (you can of > > course use it for creating MIDI music too), but if you also do > > programming then i'd suggest buying a Gravis Ultrasound as this card > > dead easy to program and the Software Developers Kit is free (I think > > the Soundblaster guys, what's their name again, actually charges people > > for their SDK) As far as sound quality goes it roughly the same as the > > AWE32, some say better some say not. > > > > Z > What the <beep> do sound cards have to do with duke3d? duke3d? this is DOOM! um, in case you didn't know, this is a cross-posting thread....
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From: Stephen Friederichs <WFriederichs@prodigy.net.nospam> Subject: Re: killer sound card??? Date: 1997/10/15 Message-ID: <344553B4.2244@prodigy.net.nospam> X-Deja-AN: 280819299 References: <01bcd06c$60e07760$1126accf@broache.bgsu.edu> <34359EC5.462F@hotmail.com> <3437A391.3A01@online.no> <3442B3AE.7E68@pacbell.net> Organization: Prodigy Services Corp Reply-To: endbringer_@hotmail.com.nospam Newsgroups: alt.binaries.games,alt.binaries.games.discussion,alt.binaries.games.lucas-arts,alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.games,alt.binaries.warez.win95-games,alt.comp.periphs.soundcard.avm,alt.games,alt.games.doom,alt.games.doom.ii,alt.games.duke3d,alt.games.pr MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit