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Article #82020Re: Which sound card for a legacy-only DOS computer?
From: Prism
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 20:11
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 20:11
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George Adams wrote: > So I'm wondering, what soundcard would be the most compatible for old games > running in a pure DOS environment? Obviously I could get an old original > AdLib or Soundblaster for total compatibility, but I'd really like to get > the last, greatest DOS-based soundcard that was well-supported by games > before the Windows 95 era. You've got two good choices: Sound Blaster AWE32 (NOT SB32) or Gravis Ultrasound MAX (Or, alternatively, you could get an SB16 (preferably non-pnp) plus an Ultrasound ACE.) Both cards do good GM sounds, GUS' SB emulation is via software but usually works wonders (MAXSBOS). Some games use multichannel digital music (tracker stuff) and these always support GUS natively, and sound wonderful.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!internal1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!firehose2!nntp4!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!skynet.be!newsgate.cistron.nl!amsnews01.chello.com!newsfeed1!bredband!fi.sn.net!newsfeed2.fi.sn.net!news.song.fi!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 22:11:26 +0200 From: Prism <prism_emf@no.yahoo.canned.co.meat.uk> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems, comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.games, comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.misc, comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.tech Subject: Re: Which sound card for a legacy-only DOS computer? References: <bqp1s20210c@enews1.newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <bqp1s20210c@enews1.newsguy.com> Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3fd0e65c$0$4936$39db0f71@news.song.fi> Organization: Song Networks Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: hos19.kypalvelu.fi X-Trace: 1070655068 news.song.fi 4936 62.236.106.19:3110 X-Complaints-To: abuse@song.fi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit