I was reading Computer Gaming World Issue 68
Publication date 1990-02
Page 39
And I noticed it mentioned a sound device from gravis called M/Sound seems to have 2 flavors :
1: Printer port device.
2: Internal Card.
Does anyone know anything about this?
Would be cool if someone did.
The section of the magazine also mentions CES , so maybe it was shown off there?
Found an update in issue 77 page 60.
Looks like it was a scam.
Indeed. Going by what these article describe, it looks like this company "Mountain Sound" had basically just produced an overpriced Covox Speech Thing clone. The "4 digital voices" was probably just in software, through a MOD player.
Maybe they offered the promised Tandy sound compatibility through something like Andrew Zabolotny's TEMU emulator. (Although I believe that wasn't released until a bit later in the 90s.)
If that's indeed the case, then it's frankly disappointing that Gravis actually fell for it, and acquired them without performing any serious due diligence beforehand. I guess that humiliation made them all the more determined to develop the Ultrasound card, a few years later. (That's purely speculation on my part, though.)
Thanks for sharing these news articles.
digger wrote on 2024-02-20, 23:11:Indeed. Going by what these article describe, it looks like this company "Mountain Sound" had basically just produced an overpri […]
Indeed. Going by what these article describe, it looks like this company "Mountain Sound" had basically just produced an overpriced Covox Speech Thing clone. The "4 digital voices" was probably just in software, through a MOD player.
Maybe they offered the promised Tandy sound compatibility through something like Andrew Zabolotny's TEMU emulator. (Although I believe that wasn't released until a bit later in the 90s.)
If that's indeed the case, then it's frankly disappointing that Gravis actually fell for it, and acquired them without performing any serious due diligence beforehand. I guess that humiliation made them all the more determined to develop the Ultrasound card, a few years later. (That's purely speculation on my part, though.)
Thanks for sharing these news articles.
Yeah no worries , I'm always happy to share anything I find about forgotten hardware.
Would love to have been a fly on the wall when some overenthusiastic Gravis manager told their engineers what he thought he'd just bought and they told him exactly what it was instead...
