VOGONS


First post, by bjwil1991

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I was planning on buying a Gravis UltraSound card on eBay, but people put hefty prices on there for no reason and some either contain everything: manuals, floppy diskettes, cables, and the card itself, others just the card, even non-functioning ones cost $200. However, Here's an idea that I have and there's probably something out there: Gravis UltraSound emulation for Windows and DOS. I found the one for Win9x/2000/XP, but not for DOS, however, I don't think there will be one, sadly.

Now, how cool would that be if GUS emulation existed for DOS? Also, is sound card emulation good, or bad? Never used a GUS card before, yet, if I find one dirt cheap, I would buy it and install the sound card in my 486 to complete the sound card collection.

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Reply 1 of 1, by chinny22

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Yeh prices are whats killing me as well for what is only a small number of my games that really take advantage of one.
You can get GUS emulation with dosbox, That's what I do if I'm really in the mood for GUS gaming.

A project exists to recreate the GUS but is still in early days
ARGUS Project thread - Now with gerbers and documentation in initial post!

An emulator that worked in dos would also be awesome no doubt, in some ways preferred (only load for the few times it's needed vs moving a card between different machines)
But can't really see it ever happening.