What brand sound card are you guys using for dos games

Unknown_K · Post by **Unknown_K** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 11:22 pm

I have Soundblasters, Ensoniq soundscapes, and Gravis Ultrasounds

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 11:39 pm

I have no clue.........I'm such a dumbass.........

Unknown_K · Post by **Unknown_K** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 11:54 pm

Da_Goat honesty like that will get you a high level government security job.

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 12:07 am

oh crap, then, I mean........I have a video card, but I can't tell you which kind, it's a secret

Oz · Post by Oz » Sat Jan 25, 2003 10:40 am

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.

Unknown_K · Post by **Unknown_K** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 11:45 am

I didnt think making a POLL work would be so hard. Everybody loves retro games, few like retro hardware

Post by **Dogbreath** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 12:42 pm

I use jolly ol' SB 16 when playing DOSgames and the sort.

johpower · Post by **johpower** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 6:48 pm

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.

Unknown_K · Post by **Unknown_K** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 8:14 pm

Wouldnt that card fall into the SB compatible PCI card section?

486 player · Post by **486 player** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 6:30 am

Or clones?

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 2:29 pm

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.

Oz · Post by Oz » Thu Jan 30, 2003 3:42 pm

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.

Unknown_K · Post by **Unknown_K** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 5:56 pm

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.

FLIPPER · Post by **FLIPPER** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 3:29 pm

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?

Unknown_K · Post by **Unknown_K** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 4:15 pm

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)

Octocon888 · Post by **Octocon888** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 8:36 pm

u know come to think of it my first computer was an Atari ST

(proper good those were), then my first PC was er... 486DX2 erm i think it was running at 60mhz with turbo...not exactly sure. Ah those turbothings... great weren't they... these days we hav to o/c our PCs and just think if we can just press one button to make them go fasterit will make our lives better.

my point is this, when i had my first PC i was a teenager... and well i only wanted one thing.. games! since my ST was the king of games then. The exact details of the system has dissappeared, i simply can't remember

i can't remembe what sndcard it was or the gfx card, all i wanted was DOOM, PBF, wolf3D, 4D stuntcar (something like that), all the luca arts advertures, duke3D (by far the best shooter) and a few other games.

I would build a dos machine but it cost money just for games, thats y i rather want to be able to run those games on my current PC.. simple.
i know ppl love dos and d/l dos appz and go completely dos mad... sry to say i'm not that enthusiastic but i love anything retro, i even hav emus for my ST fantastic!
one game that should hav come out on dos-should be dungeon master!!! the first realtime 1st person game!

sry i went of at a tangent..

Unknown_K · Post by **Unknown_K** » Wed Feb 12, 2003 2:19 am

Alot of people end up giving dos era machines away for free. Its better to have the original equipment so all you do is spend time playing the game and not messing with your new os trying to get each game to work.

johpower · Post by **johpower** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 3:15 pm

Unknown_K wrote:Wouldnt that card fall into the SB compatible PCI card section?

Not really. It's an ISA 16-bit card refuses to agree with my Windoze PC

so it stays in the DOS machine. There is a compatability mode but this negates some of the highend features. Old tech is annoying, eh?

Now I wish all the others had TB compatability! Why have super CD quality sound capacity but lousy electronics that hiss and hum like a 40's tube amp?! The TB Tropez attached to my 1980 80wt/ch Yamaha integrated amp and 4 speaker set plays clean music and shakes the house during Great Naval Battles. Happily/sadly TB still makes some of the best sound cards money could buy..... and I'll get one (PCI) on sale soon.

Unknown_K · Post by **Unknown_K** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:23 pm

Yea, my SBpro 2.0 is a little hissy.. but it adds to the experience of the old games (cant beat old hardware for that).

Just about any of the newer PCi sound cards have a good S/N ratio.

My Aureal based cards are all dead quiet. I quit using my stereo for playing games because it was TOO easy to crank it up. I remember playing mechwarrior 2 back in the day hooked up to my old 80W stereo with 12" sub , it would rattle the house.

486 player · Post by **486 player** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 9:08 am

Unknown_K wrote:it adds to the experience of the old games (cant beat old hardware for that).

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What brand sound card are you guys using for dos games

What brand sound card do you use for DOS games

What brand sound card are you guys using for dos games

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