I'm setting up 286, 386 permanently as well as a Super Socket 7 PC and a 486.
Now which sound card should I stick where?
I've got:
2x Sound Blaster 16 Vibra CT4180 (currently in 286)
1x Sound Blaster AWE32 CT3670 (I think)
1x Yamaha YM719
1x OPTI930 (currently in 386 system)
1x Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
3x Sound Blaster Live!
1x Roland MT32
286 SB PRO 2
386 SB PRO 2 (or the vibra 16)
486 SB PRO 2 (or the vibra 16)
SS7 AWE32 CT3670 + Sound Blaster Live! That AWE 32 should not have the hanging note bug since it is AWE 64 based?
Buy moar sound cards 😜
On a serious note the SoundBlaster PRO 2 is the only card I have used in 286 - 486 machines and it did always serve me well.
I really regret selling it or what ever I did with it.
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.
wrote:That AWE 32 should not have the hanging note bug since it is AWE 64 based?
CT3670 is AWE64 based, however, it has got no daughterboard header.
Hardware comparisons and game system requirements: https://technical.city
The Audigy 2 ZS is an unusually modern card for those systems. I'd personally set it aside for a Pentium 4/Athlon XP-era system, something more period-appropriate that a game that would support EAX 3/4 in the first place wouldn't choke on. (And of course, if you need kX Project driver support, that card's the way to go.)
The Live! cards are good matches for Super Socket 7 systems. I just hope they're not software-based fakes and have the actual EMU10K1 DSP on them.
Between the 286, 386 and 486 systems, I'd probably cram the AWE32 in the 486 and the SB16s in the other two.
The MT-32 is a bit of a wild card due to its external nature; I'd say you could hook it up to whatever computer you want.
