Ok, going with tested games. Games that work OK: Blake Stone DOOM II Duke Nukem II Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition (some slowdowns due to not enough CPU) Dune II Final DOOM Heretic Shadow of the Serpent Riders Hexen Master of Orion Master of Orion II Monkey Island 2 Raptor Call of the Shadows Rise of …

Well, my congratulations on this. It's an excellent idea that was just waiting for someone to do it! I have tested it on a "TQ Mini" industrial mini computer with a Vortex86MP SoC that contains a Realtek AC97 Codec. It is detected as "Intel ICH" audio (pretty incorrect) but nonetheless it is working …

But filtering (and bad capacitors) can cut a waveform flat, so there is no peak. Yet the rest of the waveform is identical. This is not really perceptible by the human ear in the middle of a song unless it's ALL notes or VERY flattened (and this is what I referred with 10x crappier or damaged card …

Having an identical pinout does not imply having identical internals. The LS-212 sounds very different, and frankly, horrible. Also, everybody talks about the LS-212, but forget about the LS-215. The YMF chip generates digital, floating point, sound, that needs to be converted into analogue sound …

Having an identical pinout does not imply having identical internals. The LS-212 sounds very different, and frankly, horrible. Fair enough, we don't know what's inside the copy chip. As mentioned before, I don't have a card with an LS-212 so I can't really say much about that. But the fact that …

for other cards you refer to software (MIDI?) synthesis. Uhm, wait what? Maybe confusion somewhere? Creative CTxxxx (as well as Ensoniq ESxxxx) and Creative EMU10K1 and higher use software FM synthesis (OPL emulation), as well as the VIA VT8231. Macintosh uses software MIDI synthesis. All others do …

What exactly are you testing? A lot of the comments you make are related to FM synth (OPL3), but you also refer to (MIDI wavetable) sound fonts, and both GM and MT-32. You then list only chips, not sound cards, and some of thost chips can only do one of these options, and for other cards you refer …

FM synth slowdown on SBLive cards depends on the driver version. Later drivers (including the one which ships with Audigy cards) do not have this problem. I used the latest Live named drivers I could find, but as well, I didn't use the fastest DOS compatible machine. The LS-212 is supposedly a pin …

The AZT2320 chip has real OPL3 integrated (some of these chips has the OPL logo on then), akin to the CT1747 chip found on some SB16 and AWE32 variants. It certainly sounds different enough to consider, that even if licensed, it is different. I'm not talking about license, even a NEC V20 was a …

Greetings programs, Ok this may not be the ultimate comparison for you but... There are 1997 comparison videos (nice number eh!?) as of this writing so it's pretty big. I have compared 17 games across 10 sound cards (plus a few extras), in different modes, and separated everything in playlists I'll …