First post, by The_ED
Hello dear Vogon members, nice to meet You all! 😀
Long story short - after watching few YouTube videos and having a ton of nostalgia moments, I decided to build myself "Retro PC" and went with a Socket 478 machine for late 90's to early/mid 00's games.
At this moment I have collected most of the hardware for my build that I would want to see in it, but there is one thing that bothers me the most and it's DOS audio experience.
Since I'm kinda audiophile, who would like to get the best listening experience with the config that I plan on using - I would want to try this combo: Audigy 2 ZS (PCI) + Game port/Midi bracket + CHill & Phill adapter + DreamBlaster S2, so the question is - Would it work? Maybe there's someone in this forums, that have tried the same or similar configuration under the real DOS conditions.
ATM i have shady CT4810 PCI sound card, that does work in DOS with clunky SB16 emulation and kinda good GM quality, but after hearing some DreamBlaster MIDI samples I'm all over it.
Why Audigy 2 ZS in 1st place? Because of EAX support. Machine will be mostly used for XP, but I would love to be it as "All-in-One" as possible, without game to game hardware swapping and it does work kinda good at this point as it is, but there is always something that makes us go a little bit further in to the hardcore path. 😁
P.S. Greetings from Latvia + this is my 1st post in here, so yeah - much <3 folks.
Might even show off my "Dream" old school PC at some point, that I would've loved to own back in the day. 😀