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Posted 24 September 2019 - 06:49 AM
In '96 when I was around 6 years old, one of my uncles moved in to our house for a few months. He brought his gaming computer with him, and he taught me how to install and run games in DOS as well as in windows 95 which the family computer had. However, most games didn't run well in our computer so he let me use his computer from time to time to play. I remember that games sounded so much better in his computer than in ours. That always stuck with me, but being a kid I had no idea about hardware at the time. Years later I asked my uncle what soundcard he had in that computer and he told me it was a Yamaha DB50XG. Nowadays, I use VirtualMidiSynth to load soundfonts for games that use MIDI and was lucky enough to find a sf2 file of the DB50XG presets. It isn't 100% accurate but it is very very close to what it was back then.
Just for the nostalgia I have to pick that. Later in 97 when my uncle upgraded his PC, he gave me his old one with that exact same card and I used it for playing games from 97 until around 2004 (upgrading some pieces here and there with the help of my uncle, including a new soundcard at some point, and even installing windows 98 in it eventually), when I was finally able to put all my allowance money together to build my own computer at age 14. I kinda regret not keeping the computer my uncle gave me. I don't remember what happened to it, I think my grandfather took it and put it in storage somewhere and was discarded at some point I suppose, but it's no longer around.
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