First post, by Mau1wurf1977
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Another quick Sound card roundup. This time with the game GODS, which many of you might be familiar with.
The interesting thing about this Intro music is that is uses both, FM and digital voice!
Cards used in this roundup:
Sound Blaster 1.5 (OPL2)
Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 (OPL3)
Sound Blaster AWE64 GOLD (Creative OPL clone)
ESS AudioDrive 1868F (ESS OPL clone)
DOSBox (SB16 max sampling rate)
I packed all files in a single convinient ZIP file: http://www.mediafire.com/?ydpm7al7gvtekk4
After having listened to the files I noticed that only the SB 1.5 plays the song as intended. All the other cards have parts of the digitized vocals missing...
I tried DOSBox and it's doing the same thing. So I thought a bit and the only thing different with these cards is that the 1.5 is IRQ7 and the others are all set to IEQ5.
I jumpered the SB 2.0 Pro to IRQ 7 and, just like magic, it plays the tune flawlessly...
So conclusion: GODS needs your Sound Blaster at IRQ 7!
Now I went back and tried all the other cards with IRQ7. The SB Pro 2.0 and AWE64 GOLD now worked (I didn't do another recording though), but the ESS card still cuts of some of the digitized vocals despite setting and initializing it to IRQ7.
Looks like I found my first game where the ESS AudioDrive isn't 100% compatible with Sound Blaster...
Same thing under DOSBox. Configure it to IRQ 7 and all is good...