First post, by batmreload
I've been looking into a PCI card for retro gameing (yes, i know the general rule - go with ISA) and
I was wondering about the live series of cards. Specifically, how good the sb16 emulation was in win98se,
and if it suffered the same reverb crash in the build-engine series of games that the pci128 did. Also,
is the hanging notes midi bug present? From my reading, any dsp higher then the AWE64 series of cards did not.
I'm not really looking into OPL 2/3 as I'm building a 486 with a sb pro/early sb16 for this. Thats for games
in the early era (Day of The Tentacle comes to mind) as well as for Inertia player (my personal favorite MOD
player)
No, I'm looking to use the system from the later Pentium era of games (Blood, Carmageddon, etc) and I'll
be playing all of them inside a win98 dos box (I've never run into a serious prolbem this way except for stupid
windows key on junk keyboards) I know there's a patch for Duke and Blood, but i really enjoyed the reverb effect
and don't want to patch it out.
Since this system has to dual-boot with XP, I need something with PCI. I have tried a P3 1GHZ machine with a
single ISA slot but the two SB's (A 16 and an AWE32 - CT3910) had a horrible pop/click when the high dma was
active (A necessity). It persisted through every combination of card swapping and power supplies I've tried (The
board is a Tyan S1854 socket 370/ slot one combo) and I'm 90% sure its the motherboard. (Shame, because its
one I have plenty of spares of)
I'm switching to a P4 3ghz machine (Asus p4s800) that should work nicely.
Thanks for your help and any advice you can offer