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Title: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's home
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 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
EPoX EP-MVP3G2 with VIA MVP chipset
2x 128MB & 1x 32MB = 288MB PC-133 total
Seagate BarracudeIII 30.7GB 7200rpm HDD
3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP + TV-Out Rev.C 5199
Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold! ;D

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

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by OutOfRange on 21.01.05 at 12:13:16

YEEEAAAHHH good old Creative Labs stuff :D

i've got the 33cm long AWE32 here, first it would be part of my 3dfx cube, but its too long ;D

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by LuxKiller65 on 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?).

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 21.01.05 at 18:14:54

wrote on 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?).

Yes that is ISA :) with a very long connector, the 16Bit ISA slots are mostly Black and the 8Bit ones are brown ;)

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by FalconFly on 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 )

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by janskjaer on 21.01.05 at 19:03:46

AWE64, without a doubt! ;)

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! :D

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. ;)

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

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by nudgegoonies on 21.01.05 at 19:28:19

AWE64 Value. I love that card altough i only have 512K :'(

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.

Regards,
Andreas

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 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 :D] 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.

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by OutOfRange on 22.01.05 at 15:52:16

here some pics of my little baby :D

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by OutOfRange on 22.01.05 at 17:24:41

damn 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.) :'(

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 >:(

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by 3Dfx_tweaker on 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.

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by LuxKiller65 on 22.01.05 at 21:00:00

Nice pictures of the longest (until somebody has one bigger) sound card!

:o

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by paulpsomiadis on 22.01.05 at 23:38:32

AWE32 with a Yamaha DB50XG on it! 8)

It lives in my 3Dfx test rig. ;D

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by gamma742 on 23.01.05 at 04:23:18

wrote on 21.01.05 at 18:39:58:

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

Prepare for Descent...

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by gamma742 on 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?

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by gamma742 on 23.01.05 at 04:40:39

author=Obi-Wan_Kenobi

Quote:

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

Do you also have the Descent2 Vertigo Add-on?

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by OutOfRange on 23.01.05 at 10:27:40

wrote on 23.01.05 at 04:31:10:

OutOf Range,
Looks just like mine. Is it a CT 1600?

No it's a CT3980 :o

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by LuxKiller65 on 23.01.05 at 16:01:44

Since you keep talking about Descent, here I have one question about the first one: is it rare with the original paper box? Just asking 'cause I can't find the first Descent with that big box, only different and "newer" boxes have I seen on the site.

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by gamma742 on 25.01.05 at 01:46:56

I'm not sure. My copy of descent 1 is so old it's on 5 floppies and back then I tossed the box. I have the boxes for all others and they're all on CDs, including DLOT (descent levels of the world) add-on for D1.

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by LuxKiller65 on 25.01.05 at 08:31:56

Well that's because this seems to be the box for Descent:
(The art from the box is the same as the one from the manual, with the blue electric bolt)

Is that the one people recognise as the "original" box for Descent? Or is that the American version? I remember having seen one here in Luxembourg and the box was black with Descent written on it and it had a red vortex underneath it (more or less that's how it was).

I searched the Net but I couldn't find pictures about the different boxes of the Descent saga.

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by batracio on 25.01.05 at 18:37:51

Hi, now I have these plugged cards:

1 Sound Blaster 16 PnP @ 486 DX2-66
2 Sound Blaster 32 PnP with 8 Mb RAM @ K6-3 400 & Celeron 500
1 Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold with 4 Mb RAM @ Pentium III 1266 (BX motherboard with 1 ISA slot ;D)

And these unplugged ones:

2 Gravis Ultrasound MAX with 1 Mb RAM
1 Gravis Ultrasound PnP with 2 Mb RAM
1 Diamond Monster Sound MX300 with Aureal Vortex2 chip (my only PCI sound card ;D)

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by gamma742 on 25.01.05 at 23:02:38

[quote author=batracio

Quote:

Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold with 4 Mb RAM @ Pentium III 1266 (BX motherboard with 1 ISA slot ;D)

What BX motherboard with 1 ISA runs @ 1266? I'd like to have one of those.

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 25.01.05 at 23:33:29

wrote on 23.01.05 at 04:40:39:

author=Obi-Wan_Kenobi

Do you also have the Descent2 Vertigo Add-on?

No thta I dont have, shouldn't that be Descent II The Infinite Abyss? Because I couldn't find it anywhere, So I though it was canceled en part three was well on the way.

Sorry I post a little, late, Normally I'd be in Austria Skiing, but I have a wierd virus, there are heavy swellings behind my ears to my cheaks, it is makes me feel very tired, dizzy, Migranes and balance stabillity problems.

So wintersports and other activities was't a good idea. The Austrian Doctor said that I had to take a lot of rest, no sporting and work aloud, so go'n home was my recommendation sad to say :(.

But on topic again, I never heard of the Vertigo Version otherwise I would of have it boxed too :) The PyroGX on my case came from the Descent2 Box art, II looked at it for a few hours and then I put it away and I started to pencil it out and then fil it with Humbrol paint :)

Here the Descent2 Boxart I own:

Simply said Descent 1 & 2 are the best Midi based games for AWE based Sound Cards ;)

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by paulpsomiadis on 26.01.05 at 00:52:25

Get well soon @Obi_Wan! ;)

May the shwartz be wit' yoo! ;D

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by LuxKiller65 on 26.01.05 at 07:47:22

Can somebody post a picture of his Descent I box (and also of the other Descent boxes if possible...)?

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 26.01.05 at 11:17:19

wrote on 26.01.05 at 07:47:22:

Can somebody post a picture of his Descent I box (and also of the other Descent boxes if possible...)?

Well I made atopic for that:

http://www.falconfly-central.de/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=offtopic;action=display;num=1106731767;start=0#0

This topic must stay clean for Soundblasters only :) okay mentioning games what play best on the sound cards isn't a problem :) I just don't wanna go too off topic .

Well the Aureal 3D cards were better than the SB live series, I don't know what happened to A3D? Anyone have a clue?

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by LuxKiller65 on 26.01.05 at 15:15:03

Well, my Montego Quadzilla II supports it...

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by gdonovan on 26.01.05 at 15:44:31

wrote on 26.01.05 at 11:17:19:

Well the Aureal 3D cards were better than the SB live series, I don't know what happened to A3D? Anyone have a clue?

1) I'd disagree with the first statement as I have had two of them and one installed in a Win98 system caused all sorts of problems. The other is in an NT system and maybe more stable due to the fact there is no 3d functions under NT4. It might be related to driver available and might not, but that's neither here nor there since a card is useless without drivers.

2) Ran out of money, a pissing match with Creative Labs and lawsuits will do that.

Creative Labs purchased the company assets after they closed their doors.

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by batracio on 26.01.05 at 21:55:32

wrote on 25.01.05 at 23:02:38:

What BX motherboard with 1 ISA runs @ 1266? I'd like to have one of those.

Hi, it's an Asus P3B-F with 1 AGP, 6 PCI and 1 ISA for Slot 1 CPUs, but you can use an Slot 1 to Socket 370 Tualatin-compatible adapter, what makes possible to install Celeron and Pentium III CPUs with Tualatin core from 1000 to 1400 MHz. There are two models of adapters available, the PowerLeap PL-iP3/T slocket and the Upgradeware Slot-T, which is the one I own. I also have a Celeron Tualatin @ 1 GHz ready to run on another BX motherboard, an Abit BH6-II (1 AGP, 5 PCI and 1 ISA) with a second Slot-T adapter.

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 27.01.05 at 13:24:34

heeh a friend of mine still has his Gravis Ultra Sound , also a very nice thing to have, I thought that the Gravis Ultra Sound the competitor was of the AWE32 and Turtle Beach Santa Cruz but i'm not sure of that , anyone more info of these great cards?

Terretec also had a great one, I only lost it's name.

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by batracio on 27.01.05 at 18:06:05

wrote on 27.01.05 at 13:24:34:

Yep, Gravis Ultrasound was a great competitor of Sound Blaster AWE32, it was also THE SOUND CARD of the demoscene, because Gravis made public much more low-level specs and programming docs for their GUS, than Creative for their AWE32.

wrote on 27.01.05 at 13:24:34:

Terretec also had a great one, I only lost it's name.

Maybe you mean Terratec EWS64?

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 27.01.05 at 19:52:43

yeah that's the one :P couldn;t get my mind on it, funny hay you know what it was but you forget the name, that can be irritating sometimes, but thanx again! :)

Oh here a nice pic of that Terratec EWS64 ::)

and here that bay :)

This was more a professional card than a game card by the looks of it.

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by LuxKiller65 on 27.01.05 at 20:57:32

Going back to the original thread, here are my two old sound cards:

Sound Blaster 16

Voyetra Turtle Beach Montego Quadzilla II (or something like that)

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 28.01.05 at 12:25:23

cool that Turtle Beach has the Aureal A3d Vortex2 Sound Processor! :)

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by LuxKiller65 on 28.01.05 at 17:02:37

I was more than sure you would point that out!

:D

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 01.02.05 at 10:03:52

does it work well? I mean the sound effect must be amazing on a sterio set or so :) And is it's midi compareable to the AWE 32 and Terratec EWS 64 ?

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by LuxKiller65 on 01.02.05 at 12:35:26

Hum, I remember having some demos from Voyetra about the amazing sound this card can produce, but I really never used them. I can tell you the sound was pretty good (I remember playing Half-Life with it).

I can't tell you if the midi engine is as good as the ones you say, but it surely is one great card with great features and sound chips!

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by gamma742 on 16.02.05 at 07:02:38

I still say AWE32.

Home in the Mercury with 2 X 4 MB 30 pin sim ;)

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by OutOfRange on 16.02.05 at 07:25:49

hehe thats funky ;D

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by gamma742 on 17.02.05 at 18:10:17

wrote on 16.02.05 at 07:25:49:

hehe thats funky ;D

It sounds great and looks cool in there. It is the same length as the Mercury sub-System. Well, maybe adding the additional memory to the AWE was a bit much but what else are you going to do with couple of 4 MB 30 pin sims you have just laying around ::)

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by Denys on 22.03.05 at 08:36:58

@OutOfRange

Hehe I have that exact same card, and I also have a bunch of 30pin dimms.... I have a slow rig with PII-400 (supports slot 1/Socket 370 VIA adaptor, which I have, up to 100 MHz FSB), but it has onboard Crystal sound card... and a free ISA slot. Is that card really good? If it is I'll try it... An extra ATA adapter is always really handy too, esp when burning CD's

And here's a REAL KICK
P4 Socket 478 with 1 AGP 4x-2x, 2 DDR RAM slots, USB 2.0, 4 PCI, AND 3 ISA!!!!!!!!!!!!
:( kinda pricey though....
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=515536&CatId=1145
ANd here is a few S370 boards (sry, the prices are in canadian d001ars, but tigerdirect has branches in europe too)

Here's a few Socket A solutions from Chaintech
http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/eng/product_spec.asp?MPSNo=13&PISNo=46
http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/eng/product_spec.asp?MPSNo=13&PISNo=49
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=602210&CatId=1122
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=633885&CatId=1122
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=281275&CatId=1122
And one more with S478
http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/eng/product_spec.asp?MPSNo=13&PISNo=28

and there was a whole bunch of S370 mobo's which I did not include
note that these are the motherboards that are still being produced........

and here's what DFI turned up (although this is ot the full list I think)
http://www.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_by_category_board_us.jsp?CATEGORY_TYPE=ACPBOARD&CATEGORY_ID=1009&PAGE_TYPE=US&ARCHIVED_FLAG=G (Click on ISA solution on the left)

"Look and ye shall find"...

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 22.03.05 at 09:02:17

A2 Dennis Please stay ontopic, your post hasn't anything to do with sound cards, thanks ;)

If you have a great Sound card of the old days, would wanna know it though :)

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by LuxKiller65 on 22.03.05 at 12:02:04

Because size does matter!

Here's my longest sound card (which is also a modem card). It's got a Crystal sound chip and is 35 cm long!

I love it!

:P

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by gamma742 on 23.03.05 at 03:54:39

Well that has mine beat. My SB AWE 32 CT 3900 is only 33cm and has just 2 connectors one for Creative/Panasonic Drive and the other just says IDE Interface. I sure do like it for DOS compatible games though.

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by LuxKiller65 on 23.03.05 at 08:23:05

Yes, there's a Mitsumi connector not found on yours. But the AWE surely is infinitely better for gaming.

;)

Still mine is longer!

;D

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by Targles on 23.03.05 at 16:03:30

wrote on 28.01.05 at 12:25:23:

cool that Turtle Beach has the Aureal A3d Vortex2 Sound Processor! :)

I've got a Diamond Monster Sound MX300 in my current machine. Took me ages getting it to play fair with Win2k - all the relevant sites with the info on that sort of thing are dead and gone now - but it works really well. Especially considering I got it for free.

I might also get a (free) GUS at some point, though I haven't a clue where I'd lay my hands on a mobo with an ISA slot to use it with these days.

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 26.03.05 at 11:29:56

the Diamond Multimeda Monster Sound MX300 was indeed very good, in some apps it was better than the AWE64, but the AWE64Gold was still one of the best cards of it's time the Gravis Ultra Sound was also very cool to have, I do remember that that card was red :D

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by Denys on 28.03.05 at 13:47:46

wrote on 22.03.05 at 09:02:17:

A2 Dennis Please stay ontopic, your post hasn't anything to do with sound cards, thanks ;)

If you have a great Sound card of the old days, would wanna know it though :)

In case you have not noticed, first 4 or so lines of my message are a reply to OutOfRange, where I awknowlege myself as having THE EXACT same Sound card that he has had enough courtesy to have shown the Sound card to us all, which, in my humble opinion, deals directly with with a great Sound card of old days.

In my second paragraph I ask other users whether I should ditch the onboard Crystal Sound card (which is now 7 years old) for a 10-years old Sound Blaster, since I have an ISA slot avaliable in that rig.

The rest of the message deals with a post by gamma742 as of Jan 25th, 2005, 11:02pm, who (gamma742) wished he had a P!!! 1266 MHz board with an ISA slot, to which batracio replied with a quote as of Jan 26th, 2005, 9:55pm regarding that very same topic, and which (the remainder of my post), while sways slightly off topic, may be of great interest to someone who would like to use a great Sound card of the old days in a quite modern rig, so it hardly be regarded as a pure off-topic. Thus, in my humble opinion, the message in question that I have posted cannot be regarded as an off-topic.

That being said in retaliation to Obi-Wan Kenobi's post, I do have a few old Sound cards, all of them are Creative Sound Blasters, all ISA (1992-1995). I am not quite sure, however, since I have them in my parents' basement, while I live in a different town where I happen to study. The very same day I get there I will however make a few pictures and post them here.

As of now I am using an old Diamond MM C-Media 8738 sound card (which is not that old yet). This card is another story. First off this is the only sound card with which I have not had any problems (as of yet at least). I bought it at a local computer store for $5 canadian, which was $4 Us or 3 euro. Very small, with blue base, probably one of the first 5.1 surround cards (2000). Before I had Sound Blaster 128 (1999), which lasted for a year (I feel ripped off), and which now gives off a crackling noise so I took it out for good. This (Diamond MM) Sound card now works quite well with GTA 3 &4, Counter-strike, Serious Sam, Unreal Tournament, Heroes 3, Morrowind 3, Star Wars Pod Racer.....

Hope this post was not off-topic ;)

oh, and BTW, can you guys recommend a good old game that would run on win2k (DirectX 9). I do have a 3dfx card if it is needed for Glide.

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by gamma742 on 29.03.05 at 04:08:10

I lost one of my AWE32 cards when I sold my Mercury to Patience. That was the CT 3990 I got from gdonovan. The other 2, my CT 3900 is in the Intel SE 440 BX-2 600MHz Quantum3D 100SB 4440 machine and the CT 3600 is in the Intel SE 440 BX-2 500MHz Quantum3D 50-4440 machine. All of these cards have the 2 optional 30 pin memory simm slots and well, what else can you do with those old 4 meg 30 pin memory modules. If nothing else, they look cool in there ;)

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by LuxKiller65 on 06.07.05 at 08:36:45

Up(stairs)!

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by st4r4m4m4 on 06.07.05 at 19:17:26

Woa :o so here is this thread.. hehe
As mentiones somewhere before...
Just got an AWE32 CT3620 (32cm lenght)

And since we are talking about where will the technlologic masterpiece find its home I have to mention a project in with my AWE... : an overkill 486 with an asskikking casemod (no offense but I find casemodding kinda useless/lame so this will be something like a parody casemod for all the people with their flashy P4 ht EE with 200W just for the lights in their boxes)

So the box will be:
intel 486DX2 66MHz with a modified universal heatsink/cooler to fit on the proc
20MB RAM 30pin (I'd need some more of these)
Diamond Stealth 64 2MB VLB (also an amazing piece of hardware)
Creative AWE 32 CT3620 ISA (+2MB 30pin ram for midi, also need more)
3Com EtherLink III ISA
I/O & IDE controller VLB
Modified ATX power supply that uses standby power for some leds and similar stuff.
ATX box with modified backpanel to make it usable with AT board, side window kit, top window kit.
An old CD-ROM 8x(I tought sometnihg like a new 40 or 52x cdrom would be out of place)with top window kit
small stuff:
pair of cold light tubes
all fans replaced by transparent led fans
a lot of high intensity leds (a friend of mine can get me those from a car company /*will not mention name but a hi-end one*/ that uses them for those large brake lights)
note: since I'm qute handy with plexi and steel cutting all sorts of window kits will be home made

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by st4r4m4m4 on 06.07.05 at 19:21:49

Anyway when talking abour soundcards the only thing that I have in mind is Creative
I mostly use a Live! 5.1 Digital
(I move it from comp to comp so it has not a steady home)

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by gamma742 on 08.07.05 at 05:34:55

wrote on 06.07.05 at 08:36:45:

Up(stairs)!

Huh ???

That's where your favorite sound card is "upstairs"?

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by LuxKiller65 on 12.07.05 at 11:32:47

No, I just upped this topic from where it was!

;D

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by st4r4m4m4 on 17.11.05 at 02:06:44

Well not my favourite yet but I just got it today from a friend and it looks extra nice for a '93 board (a bit dusty but we'll fix that soon) , it's a gravis ultrasound with 1MB ;)
http://www3.shrani.si/thumbs/dsci0071871346.jpg

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by LuxKiller65 on 17.11.05 at 16:09:21

Cute!

O_o

Gravis and Adlib cards are quite hard to find in my experience nowadays.

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by paulpsomiadis on 17.11.05 at 17:33:06

LOL! ;D

It has a RED mainboard for CANADA! ::)

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by LuxKiller65 on 18.11.05 at 07:19:27

What's the big removable square chip for?

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 18.11.05 at 12:45:15

wrote on 18.11.05 at 07:19:27:

What's the big removable square chip for?

hmm maybe an upgradable Sound Processor.

Title: Re: Post here your favourite Sound card and it's h
Post by st4r4m4m4 on 18.11.05 at 14:15:37

afaik there is no upgrade option, probably it's just some production solution so they added the spu at the end.
The only thing upgradable is the ram, the original card has 256k, luckily I got mine fully upgraded to 1M ;D

A nice link for this (and other cool old soundcards) :
http://crossfire-designs.de/index.php?lang=en&what=articles&name=showarticle.htm&article=soundcards&page=9

Clicking through the menu on the bottom will show you the wanders of PC sound ;)