Running it on a Vortex 2 now, it sounds pretty close, although there are some hiccups here and there.
Swaaye I love you man, you made me laugh so hard! It is true, the AWE32's sound is widely disliked, but I love it, mainly because I was desperate for something other than FM Synth and a guy here in Greece gave me an AWE64 Gold absolutely free!
Now if I can get the SC-7 to run under Win9x I'll remove the Vortex 2 as I'll no longer need the Yamaha DB60XG. Using Win98SE and the Native Usb Drivers 3.3, I can get Windows to recognize the module as USB Audio Device, but it gave a blue screen and now ,on the Device Manager, the device is noted with a yellow mark. On opening it, you can read the following:
"Windows stopped responding while attempting to start this device, and therefore will never attempt to start this device again (Code 11.)
For more information, look up ASD in Windows Help.
Try upgrading the device drivers for this device."
It cracks me up with this whole "will never attempt again" business. It's as if the OS is calling you a moron for installing the device 😜