Figured I would drop my two cents since I have dealt with this issue extensively. Back in '97 I had a Diamond Monster 3D that used to do the exact same thing as the OP's card - display a noisy, slightly distorted image. Fast forward 17 years and lo-and-behold, a Canopus Pure3D I snag off eBay does …

AWE64 Gold cards are easy to find at $30-40. If you want the memory upgrade though, it's very rare and can go up to $200. SCC-1 market price seems to be about $150-300 depending on condition, model and accessories. SW60XG is about $100 for the bare card. I guess I haven't been looking hard enough. …

Roland GS cards: I had considered all of them at one point or another (preferably the daughtercard in order to save taking up another ISA slot), finally figuring I would rather go for the easier-to-find (and less expensive) SC-55 for its support of the original GS extensions that at least 5 games I …

I have found the save files needed and I will record One Winged Angel in the coming days! Thanks for the suggestions Cloudschatze! I listened to the recording, and for some odd reason I don't remember hearing the vocals... Strange. Also, thanks for the ups, Cloudshatze. I'm definitely jealous of …

Do you think this sounds better than the XG MIDIs? I am inclined to say no. I only briefly had an XG MIDI PCI card, and from what I could tell before it fried, FFVIII sounded very accurate in comparison to the PlayStation. Ultimecia's Castle sounded spot on. Then one at a time the channels went out …

I also have an AN430TX with onboard Yamaha sound. It feels much snappier than the AT 430HX board with 256K L2 I owned back in 96-98... 17 years later I am finally able to build my dream Socket 7 system... 🤣

You are right, I mainly threw this in because those "minor" differences between native AWE drivers and GM mode w/ ROM samples aren't discussed a lot (or rather, at all), yet still may be interesting to some. Obviously games which are composed more specifically for the EMU8k are better suited to …

Mau1wurf1977 wrote: Descent 2 also sounds very good on the AWE. I think that card does well with electronic music genres in general. I played the original Descent a TON with an AWE32 PnP. I can vouch that that game sounds great with it as well!

I last posted in this thread a LONG time ago, reminiscing about my long since sold Matrox M3D... And, well... Guess what I found at a local PC shop for $20? http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/tt167/misterbluntman/th_2014-01-24_19-03-01_650.jpg A working Matrox M3D! And to go with it I have built a …

Great thread! I remember having a Matrox M3D back in the day, unfortunately I long since have got rid of it, and to my dismay I can't seem to track one down at all. If I only knew...