First post, by Dimitris1980
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Circa 1993 where i bought the monthly computer greek magazine named "User", there was someone who was asking what sound card should buy for his dos pc. The magazine answered and told him some differences between adlib, soundblaster and roland, the advantages and disadvantages. I remember the last sentence "if you year music from roland, you are going to throw the soundblaster to the garbage". I was only 13 then and didn't believe it a lot. Now i am 36 years. I have some retro Macintosh computers where my favourite is my macintosh performa 6116 equipped with sonnet nubus g3 card accelerator and a roland mt-32 device. Some days before i bought a retro dos computer Cyrix 120+, 32 mb ram, avance logic als 100 sound card. The reason i wanted a dos retro computer is the roland mt32 because macintosh has only few games from sierra on line that support it. For me the sound quality is incredible even today. It is a lot better than soundblaster. Always the sound and especially the music was my favourite technical element. For instance when Unreal came out, they all got crazy because of the 3dfx graphics. But when i saw the game to a friend of mine, i got more impressed with the great background music on the first stage than the 3d graphics. I vote roland for retro gaming. One huge difference is the police quest 2 comparison between adlib and roland. The game i think came out in 1989. The best computer that i had seen until then was my amstrad cpc 464 and later atari st. Imagine the roland sound from this game in 1989. You can see the video comparison at youtube. Long live roland MT32!!!
- Macintosh LC475, Powerbook 540c, Macintosh Performa 6116CD, Power Macintosh G3 Minitower (x2), Imac G3, Powermac G4 MDD, Powermac G5, Imac Mid 2007
- Cyrix 120
- Amiga 500, Amiga 1200
- Atari 1040 STF
- Roland MT32, CM64, CM500, SC55, SC88, Yamaha MU50
