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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Post here your favourite Sound card and it's home
21.01.05 at 12:11:11

Well I have a AWE64 Gold and It's home is still in use in my slowest PC

Name: Gasaap

AMD K6-2 500@550Mhz
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2x 128MB & 1x 32MB = 288MB PC-133 total
Seagate BarracudeIII 30.7GB 7200rpm HDD
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Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold! Grin

That AWE64 Gold! is a great Sound Card, especially the Midi sounds very nice in games like Descent 1 & 2

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OutOfRange Senior Member Offline Posts: 348 Switzerland Gender:	Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h Reply #1 - 21.01.05 at 12:13:16 YEEEAAAHHH good old Creative Labs stuff i've got the 33cm long AWE32 here, first it would be part of my 3dfx cube, but its too long
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LuxKiller65 God Member Offline Posts: 680 Luxembourg Gender:	Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h Reply #2 - 21.01.05 at 16:29:43 Got a Sound Blaster 16, the one with the port which is not PCI (is it called ISA?).
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h Reply #3 - 21.01.05 at 18:14:54 Quote: Got a Sound Blaster 16, the one with the port which is not PCI (is it called ISA?). Yes that is ISA with a very long connector, the 16Bit ISA slots are mostly Black and the 8Bit ones are brown
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Reply #4 - 21.01.05 at 18:39:58

I loved my ISA Soundblaster AWE32, the only Soundcard I had with optional PS/2 RAM

Was awesome playing Descent 1&2 with full AWE32 Midi support back then!
(heck, I still have the In-Game Midi Files in my Sound Collection

, but even on a SB Live! 1024 they don't sound remotely as great as on the good old AWE32 )

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janskjaer

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Reply #5 - 21.01.05 at 19:03:46

AWE64, without a doubt! Wink

I originally had the AWE64 Value (ISA) installed in a machine I bought from a store.

I'd played F-22 Lightning II with the Sound Blaster 16, which was ok. But when I tried it with the new AWE64 inside, the sound difference was incredible! Cheesy

The MIDI Synthesizer difference was like I nothing I have ever seen since!

When I sold the machine and it's parts, I got the SB Live! Value, which was obviously a better card, but the difference of quality could not match the AWE64 upgrade. I recently bought a fully boxed one from Ebay, as the nostalgia kicked in. Wink

Currently running a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz (3 years now) and still a brilliant card.

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Reply #6 - 21.01.05 at 19:28:19

AWE64 Value. I love that card altough i only have 512K Cry

I had a Toptek GS32 (MPU MIDI only ISA Card equipped with a Dream/Crystal 9203 and 4mb Roland GS ROM) before in addition to a SB16 and i must say that gm or gs midi's sound worse on the AWE with any EMU Bank including the 4MB one.

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Andreas

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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Reply #7 - 21.01.05 at 22:08:05

My AWE64 Gold! has 8MB onit, and I compared it's Midi in Descent 2 with my Audigy2 Platinum, and the good ol AWE64 Gold score alot better with Midi, General Midi doesn't have Advanced Wav Effects, which the AWE64 Gold! does have

My fire AWE was the AWE 64 , the 4MB card. I could do a 4MB add on upgrade on it.

About the descent series, simply the best game seriesever created, Got them all Boxed:) If you want photo's, no prob's there

Descent, Descent 100 Levels of the World, Descent 2 [The PyroGX box Cheesy

] Descent3: Retribution, Descent3: Mercenary. Descent 1 is still be'n played via IPX here

here a proof of my Descent madness on my PC

Painted it my self in 7 hours:

That PC has a good ol Creative Labs Sound Blaster Surround 1024 4.1

One of the first 1024 cards.

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OutOfRange Senior Member Offline Posts: 348 Switzerland Gender:	Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h Reply #8 - 22.01.05 at 15:52:16 here some pics of my little baby
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Reply #9 - 22.01.05 at 17:24:41

damn i tested the AWE32 today, and the card doesn't work correctly Sad

there's always cracking in the sound and there's no chance to make it better by changing the hardware configuration (IRQs etc.) Cry

but i have a really crappy card from crative here, it's a Soundblaster Live! Value:
sometimes the card runs normally, next time you boot the system no card is found and sometimes the system hangs up..... and why ? the damn idiots made the golden pci connectors not so long as on normal pci cards. so you must open the case and give the card a kick Angry

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3Dfx_tweaker Guest	Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h Reply #10 - 22.01.05 at 17:32:03 AWE64 without a doubt, I used it every day for about 5 years, and then I got an Audigy.
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LuxKiller65 God Member Offline Posts: 680 Luxembourg Gender:	Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h Reply #11 - 22.01.05 at 21:00:00 Nice pictures of the longest (until somebody has one bigger) sound card!
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h Reply #12 - 22.01.05 at 23:38:32 AWE32 with a Yamaha DB50XG on it! 8) It lives in my 3Dfx test rig.
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Reply #13 - 23.01.05 at 04:23:18

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I loved my ISA Soundblaster AWE32, the only Soundcard I had with optional PS/2 RAM

Was awesome playing Descent 1&2 with full AWE32 Midi support back then!
(heck, I still have the In-Game Midi Files in my Sound Collection

, but even on a SB Live! 1024 they don't sound remotely as great as on the good old AWE32 )

I'm with you FF. I have one and it's in my legacy machine soon to have a 100SB 4440.

Prepare for Descent...

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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h Reply #14 - 23.01.05 at 04:31:10 OutOf Range, Quote: d*mn i tested the AWE32 today, and the card doesn't work correctly there's always cracking in the sound and there's no chance to make it better by changing the hardware configuration (IRQs etc.) Looks just like mine. Is it a CT 1600?
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