Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-02-14, 07:31:The Gravis Ultrasound is rare and expensive for collectors.
But I just want a good sounding ISA sound card that has the clarity […]
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The Gravis Ultrasound is rare and expensive for collectors.
But I just want a good sounding ISA sound card that has the clarity of the GUS.
Do you know of any ?
I have a Sound Blaster 2.0 right now but it’s not to clear in playing DOS games.
Yeah, that's not what the GUS is about.
DOS games sound like crap, by design. You can run it through a Pro Tools rig and it would sound like crap. Floppy disks and BBS downloads did not afford the use of high quality samples.
The GUS, AWE, Turtle Beach, MT-32, Sound Canvas, and any other MIDI wavetable or ROMpler hardware -- they're all designed to improve music, as FM sounds like a deflating balloon and/or a fork stuck in a blender.
Some cards have better S/N ratio than others.
But PCM did, and always will, sound like garbage until around the Windows 98 era, when everyone for sure had a 16-bit sound card, a CD-ROM, at least 16MB of RAM, and a PCI bus.