[HN Gopher] The (Almost) Definitive PC Sound Card Article (Pre-1... ___________________________________________________________________ The (Almost) Definitive PC Sound Card Article (Pre-1990) Author : todsacerdoti Score : 32 points Date : 2023-03-03 09:01 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (brassicgamer.blogspot.com) (TXT) w3m dump (brassicgamer.blogspot.com) | steponlego wrote: | I have some extremely rare PC digital audio cards which predate | the DigiSound 16. True Sound Technologies True Sound Card, to be | specific. | Aldipower wrote: | In 1993 I bought the bespoken Sound Blaster from 1989 on a flea | market for around $60. It was already considered old. It could | only process 8bit sound, but the OPL voices chip was cream. This | Sound Blaster was also known as Sound Blaster 1.5 later, if I | remember correctly. | | Some months (sic!) ago I got an Sound Blaster 16 with SCSI | interface at Ebay for $100. Oh man, the OPL2 chip has such a nice | and warm sound. Superb quality. The additional SCSI interface | makes this Sound Blaster perfect for retro computing. | rurban wrote: | But then came the | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravis_UltraSound 1992 | logbiscuitswave wrote: | I remember coveting a friend's MT-32 setup, but when the GUS | came out it was gold. It could do amazing wave-table synthesis | in an affordable card. The first time I played Doom with the | GUS-rendered soundtrack I was blown away at how great it | sounded. I long since parted with my own GUS that I had in the | 1990s, and I often wish I held on to it. They seem to be much | sought after collector's items now. | layer8 wrote: | I bought one just for Second Reality. | Agingcoder wrote: | I never realised they gave away cards for free, and always | assumed it was because it was ideally suited to the demo | tracker format. | | Edit:6000 cards just for the demoscene seems like a lot to me | though. | royjacobs wrote: | Agreed. I don't think the PC demoscene at that time even had | 6000 sceners that were well-known enough for Gravis to send | them sound cards. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-03-05 23:00 UTC)