| What brand sound card do you use for DOS games |
| Soundblaster or SB Pro 8 Bit |
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12% |
[ 1 ] |
| Gravis Ultrasound Classic, MAX, PnP |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Ensoniq Soundscape |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| SB ISA Compatibles such as Aztec, Reveal etc |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Newer PCI cards with SB support Aureal, Live etc |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Roland cards |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Soundblaster 16, 32 , AWE etc 16 bit |
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87% |
[ 7 ] |
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Unknown_K
Way too much free time
Joined: 01 Oct 2002
Posts: 557
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 Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2003 11:22 pm
Post subject: What brand sound card are you guys using for dos games |
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| I have Soundblasters, Ensoniq soundscapes, and Gravis Ultrasounds |
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Da_Goat
Moderator
Joined: 14 Sep 2002
Posts: 2042
Location: Prescott, Arizona, USA, Earth, The Milky Way, The Universe, Nothing and Nowhere.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2003 11:39 pm
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| I have no clue.........I'm such a dumbass......... |
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Unknown_K
Way too much free time
Joined: 01 Oct 2002
Posts: 557
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| Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2003 11:54 pm
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| Da_Goat honesty like that will get you a high level government security job. |
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Da_Goat
Moderator
Joined: 14 Sep 2002
Posts: 2042
Location: Prescott, Arizona, USA, Earth, The Milky Way, The Universe, Nothing and Nowhere.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 12:07 am
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oh crap, then, I mean........I have a video card, but I can't tell you which kind, it's a secret  |
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Oz
Way too much free time
Joined: 15 Sep 2002
Posts: 585
Location: London, UK.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 10:40 am
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he was talkin' bout sound cards, you security guard.
i use what win ME calls a "legacy Device" i don't know what it means, but it lists all the info i need, like port num, IRQ, DMA, Buffer, etc. |
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Unknown_K
Way too much free time
Joined: 01 Oct 2002
Posts: 557
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| Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 11:45 am
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I didnt think making a POLL work would be so hard. Everybody loves retro games, few like retro hardware  |
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Dogbreath
Admin
Joined: 14 Sep 2002
Posts: 3773
Location: In the back of a jacked-up Ford.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 12:42 pm
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| I use jolly ol' SB 16 when playing DOSgames and the sort. |
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johpower
Way too much free time
Joined: 06 Jan 2003
Posts: 424
Location: Colorado North 40
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| Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 6:48 pm
Post subject: Ad option |
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| I have a Turtle Beach Tropez Plus (Crystal chipset). Was very hot in it's day (up to 12 MB sound file storage). How about an "other" option in this poll. |
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Unknown_K
Way too much free time
Joined: 01 Oct 2002
Posts: 557
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| Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 8:14 pm
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| Wouldnt that card fall into the SB compatible PCI card section? |
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486 player
Gaming Demi-god
Joined: 18 Sep 2002
Posts: 1017
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 6:30 am
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Kazer0
Mercenary Dishwasher
Joined: 17 Sep 2002
Posts: 2720
Location: In an igloo with my pet penguin, eh?
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 2:29 pm
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| Quote: | | I didnt think making a POLL work would be so hard. Everybody loves retro games, few like retro hardware |
Hardware is fun.
i accidentally voted for the wrong thing. I saw soundblaster so i voted for it. i didnt notice the bottom one that says soundblaster 16 awe, which is what i have. |
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Oz
Way too much free time
Joined: 15 Sep 2002
Posts: 585
Location: London, UK.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 3:42 pm
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| dude, i don't play many dos games, so i don't pay much attention to my sound card. sorry about you feeling the "dead thread after a week and i started it" syndrome, it happens to the best of us. |
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Unknown_K
Way too much free time
Joined: 01 Oct 2002
Posts: 557
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 5:56 pm
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Well unlike todays soundcards that have just DirectX support, the older cards were proprietary. Alot of the old games could use different soundcards but some sounded alot better then others. And most cards tried SBPro emulation and alot of those sounded really bad. Even the SB16 and later cards didnt FULLY support SBPRo 2 hardware.
In my opinion todays games need a good video card, the old DOS games needed a good sound card.
Thats why I started the poll.. this is Dosgames so figured a few people would be using older soundcards. |
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FLIPPER
Newbie
Joined: 05 Feb 2003
Posts: 5
Location: In a van down by the river
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| Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 3:29 pm
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Hello everyone, this is my first post here 
Anyway, I have about 5 sound blaster ISA cards for my dos machines. I started with wanting to build up a dos machine 3 weeks ago to having 3 of them now heh.
1 orginial SB16
2 vibra 16's pnp OEM
2 awe64's what I am currently using, however it doesn't seem to be supported by many older games.
What should I keep an eye out for soundcard wise? |
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Unknown_K
Way too much free time
Joined: 01 Oct 2002
Posts: 557
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| Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 4:15 pm
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The good thing about dos machines is that they are cheap 
My combination of sb16+yamaha dbx50 waveblaster addon with a gravis ultrasound PnP 8mb plays just about anything, my older machine with sbpro2 and gravis ultrasound max does well on the older games
(the gravis cards do a decent roland emulation and are directly supported in quite a few games) |
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