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Re: SB Pro compatible vs SB Pro/16 compatible

Posted on 2017-05-31, 19:06

dr.zeissler wrote: I really think that SBpro is much more important than sb16, because there are LOTS of SBpro kompatible games, that a sb16 can only play as mono beside stereo of the original. What games do you know that in fact use the SB Pro in stereo and lack separate support for the SB16?

Re: Some questions re. CD-ROM Audio Cables..

Posted on 2017-05-31, 03:41

It's necessary for DOS and Win9x in most cases, but I do hate the analog audio cable connection. The thing is an antenna for noise, and to begin with the quality is just whatever the drive's analog circuit can put out. CD SPDIF is a bit of a rarity, at least before SB Live and Audigy. Could be the …

Re: SB CT2940 with OPL?

Posted on 2017-05-31, 03:04

It's good. The YMF-289B-S chip is just to the right of the blue capacitor looking thing. The print on the OPL chip looks the same if you squint too. I believe the other 2940 with CQM is integrated into the main chip. When they have the non-OPL FM chip, it's installed in that big open space directly …

Re: Voodoo 2 SLI with Different Revisions

Posted on 2017-05-12, 11:42

As long as the memory matches, you should be good. Some time ago I had 2 Voodoos from STB with mismatched memory (90 and 100mhz) and they worked fine in SLI with official drivers. The different memory configurations are 8MB on two sides, 12MB on two sides and 12MB on one side. The rating or even …

Re: Aureal Vortex. When was it released?

Posted on 2017-05-12, 09:04

There's this July 14, 1997 announcement for the chip: https://archive.is/19971014130227/http://www.aureal.com/press/071497-vortex.html They had no oversight on first generation cards like later with Vortex2. I've seen it anecdotally mentioned that they had a problem of cheapo Chinese productions …

Re: Getting a free BlasterPC

Posted on 2017-05-12, 06:09

Sweet! That's a very interesting look. Found this thing that's tangentially related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPbbn4FIePE Looks like they made at least seven BlasterPC motherboards. Manuals found here: http://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/Creative%20Labs/manuals/index.html The M011 is Socket …

Re: Vortex2, Santa Cruz or SB Live!

Posted on 2017-05-11, 12:36

The Santa Cruz has excellent sound quality; it makes an effort at supporting a good variety of API's, but my impression is that it's a bit flaky. Great job! You tried really hard! Here's your participation trophy! That's what that sounded like :lol: So by flaky, are you meaning that it does an OK …

Re: Vortex2, Santa Cruz or SB Live!

Posted on 2017-05-11, 02:57

The Santa Cruz has excellent sound quality; it makes an effort at supporting a good variety of API's, but my impression is that it's a bit flaky. The Live's EAX has wide support, but it's not a really great effect until the Audigy brought EAX 3.0. Except for EAX support, SoundFonts if you want them …

Re: Vortex2 Chips AU8830 and AU8830A2

Posted on 2017-05-10, 23:37

Yes, the later chip revision has slightly lower CPU utilization and thus better performance; several reviews found a measurable difference there. -Revision A2, on the Diamond MX300 among others, pictured here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Diamond_Monster_Sound_MX300.jpg - …

Re: Is Vista now Retro

Posted on 2017-05-07, 23:16

I think crap like Vista actually becomes "retro" faster than popular platforms. People will have good excuses for running Windows 7 on modern systems for some time to come, but Vista is rather tied to a brief period in time.

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