@swaaye [AWE32 isn't any better: AWE32 and Dark Forces] Tried it on my ol' rig (IBM PC 330, Intel 430HX, Intel Pentium 200MMX, 128 Mb EDO RAM). On AWE32, AWE64, and some SB Pro compatible+GUS ACE. The GUS music sounded a lot better. Sounded good on my Yamaha SW20-PC (when it was working!) 🙁

Quite good, compared to AWE32/64 and GUS MIDI. About the same quality. I guess it had a good 2 Mb set of samples.

I have 2 Teac's quad density drives. They are a keeper. I use them on my Acorn BBC's and BBC Master. Have 4 high density drives too, and I'll be willing to give 2 of them. Postal fees only.

I had one of those too. Passed away some time ago. Good OPL4 General Midi board. 2 Mb ROM, 128 Kb RAM. Used Analog Devices 1848 and Opti 928 chips for SB/WSS compatibility, and the above mentioned OPL4 for General Midi. It was my only "pure" General Midi ISA soundcard. The others being SB32 PnP ( …

Well, about GeForce 6200... It depends. I had one in me previous main rig (AMD Sempron 2600+, ASUS K8V-X socket 754 mobo with VIA K8T800 chipset, 512 Mb DDRAM, 80 Gb WD [ATA] and then 250 Gb Maxtor [SATA II], GeForce 6200. Mine was a very speedy card, more than 10000 3D Marks 2001. On the other hand …

Dude, you'd better try one of this: www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=6&l2=34 I had one and it's really quiet for a 52x; it's even quieter than me 24x SCSI Pioneer I use in my 486/66 rig.

Oh well, I have 2 older PeeCees at home, along with a plethora of components (ISA, PCI and VLB video cards, ISA and PCI sound cards. Me main oldie is an IBM PC 330; i got it for free with a Pentium 133 cpu, 32 Mb EDO RAM; right noo it is a Pentium MMX 200, with 64 Mb RAM and a 4 Gb Fujitsu HDD. It …