Quote: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.
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