Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-21, 17:45

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They didn't pay Adlib a cent for "Adlib Compatibility" and yet they forced others to pay them for the Sound Blaster compatibility claim. It's kind of a moot point considering Ad Lib's inaction at the time. Had developers cited OPL2 as the supported hardware in their literature and setup programs …

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-19, 21:47

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Creative's case is that of an adopted standard, rather than one explicitly defined, where a considerable segment of the software industry "standardized" on the digital audio playback capabilities and routines of the Sound Blaster early on. Perhaps my EQ is just super-low, but I'm having a difficult …

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-19, 17:32

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Creative had a license for Dolby processing, Daniel_K in modding the driver packs enabled them for cards Creative didn't have a license for and told him to knock it off. Most people didn't realize that was the specifics Creative had an issue with and thus lots of backlash. Creative shuts down Daniel …

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-18, 00:58

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Give me one example of a business that competes with anyone else and always plays fair, and I'll give you a hot tip on a foreclosure sale. I don't believe in this world such a company exists, however there are more "well behaved" companies that don't cross the ethical line of doing whatever it …

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-17, 19:48

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Mips was an easy example to grab evidence for of their marketing untruths, [edit] and it was plastered everywhere, in all Live! magazine reviews and many review sites , they all found that mips rating relevant enough. Mips may not mean much to the random consumer, but that larger mips number vs …

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Re: Article about the history of Creative Labs / interview with its founder/CEO: The Sound Blaster Story

Posted on 2020-02-12, 23:21

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It seems that Mr. Sim's revisionist history disease is contagious. In the article linked about E-Mu, there is an implicit claim that they didn't desperately need Ensoniq for a viable PCI solution; they already had one before anyone else that they never released. Sure, and there's a free tropical …

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Re: What is the name of this space combat racing game?

Posted on 2020-02-11, 05:01

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This probably isn't it, but does it resemble the game your thinking of? Might help narrow it down 360 for PS1

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Re: Article about the history of Creative Labs / interview with its founder/CEO: The Sound Blaster Story

Posted on 2020-02-11, 01:59

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Oh yeah, after suing Aureal out of business, buys the remains and buries the 3d surround tech . Everyone lost. It's hard to properly set the record straight to everyone since this became such a wide spread misconception, myself included. Creative cared so little about Aureals way of doing things 3D …

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Re: Article about the history of Creative Labs / interview with its founder/CEO: The Sound Blaster Story

Posted on 2020-02-10, 16:21

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As a result of their efforts to obliterate anyone who dared to try delivering a superior product, and their refusal to actually innovate and deliver quality software, they have decimated the PC sound industry and single-handedly transformed themselves from a corporation generating $1 billion+ …

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Re: Article about the history of Creative Labs / interview with its founder/CEO: The Sound Blaster Story

Posted on 2020-02-10, 15:59

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Unrelated but funny to the incoherent ramblings of Mr. Hoo. lol, was reading up on the Super X-FI stuff and saw this humorous bit: Why does the Super X-Fi feature automatically switches off when I turn on EQ? Super X-Fi is an audio technology that naturally recreates the sound stage of a high-end, …

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Re: Article about the history of Creative Labs / interview with its founder/CEO: The Sound Blaster Story

Posted on 2020-02-10, 06:12

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Microsofts real reason for removing the DS3D HAL and replacing it with a software emulation were the amount of BSOD complaints due to poorly developed audio drivers, and their many proprietary low level kernel functions. Top of the list was none other than EAX and Creative audio cards... there is an …

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Re: Article about the history of Creative Labs / interview with its founder/CEO: The Sound Blaster Story

Posted on 2020-02-10, 00:44

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What I remember is Creative constantly "bending the truth" to make their products look much better in advertising than the competitions, then litigating their competitors any time they spoke the truth about them. Aureal countersues Creative , as mentioned in the article Aureal printed the specs of …

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Re: Aureal Vortex II AU8830 rev. A2 and B0 benchmarks

Posted on 2020-02-07, 20:40

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AFAIK, it's just a silicon refresh. There aren't any feature or major design changes in the chip. There is a change from the 8830A2 to the 8830B0 in which the internal data bus timings were changed to avoid an 8-cycle WaveTable data fetch stall in the A2 rev. This is why the SQ2500 runs faster, …

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Re: Article about the history of Creative Labs / interview with its founder/CEO: The Sound Blaster Story

Posted on 2020-02-07, 02:14

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I found this a while back, an interesting read as well NTCC Creative Lawsuits. It's a schools case study brief on the many lawsuits Creative filed in order to maintain their market dominance. I dislike the attitude they had towards Aztec making clone cards more than the lawsuit they flung at Aureal …

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Re: Problems w/ Aureal Vortex 2 in SWOS under Windows & Turrican in DOS

Posted on 2020-02-04, 21:28

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They come in the original drivers, no worries.

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Re: A3D 1.0: SB Live! vs. Aureal Vortex 1 quality

Posted on 2020-01-17, 02:45

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Use original ISA hardware or Yamaha's YMF7x4 cards for better OPL3 support in DOS. I think johnsirett asked nothing about better OPL3. He said about better DOS compatibility. And true OPL is not equal to DOS games compatibility. For better DOS compatibility there are ISA SB Pro clones - ESS, OPTi, …

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Re: Problems w/ Aureal Vortex 2 in SWOS under Windows & Turrican in DOS

Posted on 2020-01-17, 02:31

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No there aren't any sadly. There are two versions v2.007 and v2.00B, but the difference between the two is negligible. The v2.00B added some checks for game titles like Quake and sets the driver up for protected mode to avoid certain crashes which can happen in the v2.007 driver. Otherwise they are …

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Re: Problems w/ Aureal Vortex 2 in SWOS under Windows & Turrican in DOS

Posted on 2020-01-15, 22:26

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A bit of a bump, here is a recording of Turrican 2 running on my latest AU8830 Alpha drivers. There are still some issues with the game but at least the intro music plays now. The original AU30DOS drivers weren't coded in a way to minimize TSR latency in "hispeed" modes, Turrican 2 does something …

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Re: Aureal vortex MSDos drivers ,... set without necessarily installing

Posted on 2019-11-25, 04:18

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All it takes is SET WINBOOTDIR=C:\WINDOWS to the location of your AU30DOS.com file You can load it and ignore the AU30DOS.ini file requirements by using: AU30DOS -u /PORT=220 /DMA=1 /IRQ=5 the -u is for uninstalling the driver allowing you to call it via a batch file and toggling it loaded and …

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Re: A3D 1.0: SB Live! vs. Aureal Vortex 1 quality

Posted on 2019-02-08, 06:09

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You already have a pretty ideal setup it sounds, no need to change anything then :) A3D works with speakers as well, but Sensaura's 5.1 speaker multidrive HRTF on the CS4630 is pretty awesome as well. The Vortex 2 only does the Crosstalk cancellation on the front 2 speakers and basic panning on the …

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