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Your favorite sound card from the MS-DOS days?

Poll: Your favorite sound card from the MS-DOS days? (10 member(s) have cast votes)

Favorite MIDI/sound format from the DOS days?

  1. Gravis Ultrasound (1 votes [10.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 10.00%

  2. Sound Blaster (5 votes [50.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 50.00%

  3. Sound Man 16 (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  4. Pro Audio Spectrum (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  5. AWE 32 (2 votes [20.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 20.00%

  6. SoundScape (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  7. Disney Sound Source (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  8. Tandy Sound Source (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  9. General MIDI (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  10. Adlib (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  11. Sound Canvas (2 votes [20.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 20.00%

  12. WaveBlaster (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  13. Other (specify) (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

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#1

Sound Blaster gets my vote. With the sample rate of 22 kHz or 44 kHz if possible. How about yours?

This post has been edited by DustFalcon85: 24 September 2019 - 06:21 AM

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#2

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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User is offline   MusicallyInspired 

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#3

Even though I didn't have it until much later, definitely the Sound Blaster AWE32. Wavetable MIDI, full stereo OPL2 MIDI, and external MIDI to boot (for MT-32 and SC-55). I know the onboard PCM wavetable samples aren't as great as something like Gravis Ultrasound, but regardless it is the most packed card ever for DOS. I have one in my old 486 DX2 66 right now (CT3900 model). Also have an identical one in my Pentium 233 MMX computer running Windows 98 (but the Line In port is blown).
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User is offline   NightFright 

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#4

I had the Gravis ACE for a while and enjoyed its MIDI sound for quite a while. Switching from FM synthesis to that was a giant leap for my ears. Used that card in combination with a Soundblaster 16, later AWE 64. Then the card retired with the Soundblaster Live.

For me GUS MIDI playback sounded better than with Creative cards back in the days, so Gravis gets my vote.

This post has been edited by NightFright: 24 September 2019 - 09:15 PM

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User is offline   Person of Color 

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#5

Sound Blaster 16 CT2230.

Very few of them have the hanging note bug, they have a real OPL3 and clean output. If you want AWE32 support, you can buy a Creative Goldfinch (CT1920). You'll have to build an output cable for it, but the header information is available online in the user's manual.
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