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Re: killer sound card???

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From: Stephen Friederichs
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
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