Reply 7780 of 52976, by brostenen
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If I look at how Creative's card did evolve, they just give me this feeling of them knowing that ISA was pretty much history back in 1996.
They knew were things were going, buying up companies, trying to implement PCI technology in their lineup. Stuff like that.
And as a result, they might have ditched the OPL chip in their entire lineup of new products. That's what I see.
However. The Gold might have been their way of squeezing the last bit of money from the aging ISA technology, still widely in use.
As a result. We see a lot of late ISA cards from creative, were they just have ranted OPL as an outdated unuseable feature.
Yeah... Would have been THE ultimate card, if they have included a real OPL chip. And I have a chilly thought back in my head.
That if they really have meant something higher with the Gold, then they might have included OPL chip on the Gold.
You know.. To say: "Here... This is the ultimate best we can give you, because we salute the dying ISA cards."
Because the OPL chip is missing. I just think of the Gold as one of the best ISA cards. Not as people say, "last hurray" for the ISA.
Not saying this is a bad choice. This card is absolutely great. The best if OPL and GUS in pure MS-DOS are NOT needed.
With this I mean that if the only 2 dos-games you want to play is Doom2 and Duke3D, and the rest are Win98 games.
Then the Gold is the absolute best choice, because of the RCA plugs. Beats anything else, only because of quality of the output signal.
I would still not choose the Gold, when games are MS-DOS only and not having Midi/AWE compatibility. Then the Gold fails.
Just in another way then what makes the Gold stand out.
To bring my statement down to a more eadable way of saying. Games before 1995, choose something with an OPL Chip.
As an example, I have an SB16 CT2910 in my P133, paired with the GUS-ACE.
Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....
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