What is the best way to tell if older games offer full 256 color VGA support? rather than just 16 colors using an expanded palette. Many older games claim VGA support in their technical specifications, but the screenshots don't look much better than EGA, especially when compared to other ports (32 …

Unfortunately Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf seems more like a poor PC port, as the Sound Blaster could have easily handled the digital sound effects of the Amiga version. Older PC games are more of a case of hardware limitations, with only PC Speaker or Tandy sound been available at the time of …

I played a demo of the Amiga version of Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf long ago, which offered many well done sound effects, including the speech of soldiers calling for help or dying. I was planing to check out the DOS version, since I have Windows system now. But all the game play videos on …

What is the best way to confirm which games take advantage of the Roland MT-32? it is clear in earlier games that only offer a Roland MT-32 option for music, but not so clear on later games which offer both General MIDI and Roland MT-32 options for music. I'm using DosBox, with the Munt emulator as …

Actually there is a patch to run SimCity 2000 Network Edition on Windows XP onwards, check http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comments/1d9j … y_like_its_1996

Aureal A3D 2.0 support was broken in the Unreal 224 patch, but later fixed in Unreal 226 patch. Half Life and Unreal were the best examples of Aureal A3D 2.0 support.

Turtle Beach only released sound cards based off the Vortex 1 chipset (Turtle Beach Montego A3DXstream) and Vortex 2 chipset (Turtle Beach Montego II models). Well that's obviously not true because here is the pic http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/1596/125ip.jpg . No, the caption for that image is …

I'm wondering about the card in the picture with the AU8810A1 chip on it posted by AurealDieHard. Is it really a Montego II? Every Montego II I've ever seen has a AU8830 chip on it. The AU8810, AFAIK, was a budget chip that Aureal put out so they could sell cheaply to OEMs right before they got …

Microsoft does have drivers for the SQ2500 that do work better than the beat, drivers. The first release of Windows XP included drivers for Vortex 2 based sound cards, which provided decent support. But Microsoft later released updated drivers (2 5.12.01.156), which removed many features (Aureal …

Any sound card using the Vortex 2 chipset would be fine, and completely support Aureal A3D 2/3. The SQ3500 was meant to provide hardware acceleration for new features, but didn't get released, or proper driver support. EAX (1.0/2.0) was only supported under Windows 95/98, and Aureal A3D 2/3 (with …