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First post, by vorob

Posted on 2015-04-13, 07:14

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Hello!

I'm on my little project with making old laptop into perfect gaming machine for old games. Config:

1Dell Latitude D800
2Screen: 15,9 - 1680x1050
3CPU: Intel Pentium M Processor 1.60 GHz
4GPU: NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go (Forceware 67.42)
5-- OpenGL version maximum version 1.5
6-- DirectX version maximum version 8.1
7RAM: 1Gb DDR-SDRAM (PC2700)
8Chipset: Intel i855PM + 82801DB (ICH4-M)
9Audio: SigmaTel AC97 (AC9750/51)
10HDD: Hitachi HTS541680J9AT00
11DVD: HL-DT-ST DVD+RW GCA-4040N
12OS: Windows XP SP3 \ Windows 98 SE

So since my laptop has PCMCIA slot, i was thinking about bying this card: PCMCIA Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS. Anything about it? Is that true that with this card:

- my laptop will gain full hardware support for EAX up to 4.0 version?
- i still will be able to use laptop own speakers to sound from this PCMCIA card?
- i'll have sound support even in dos?

Reply 1 of 6, by PhilsComputerLab

Posted on 2015-04-13, 09:20

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vorob wrote:

- my laptop will gain full hardware support for EAX up to 4.0 version?
- i still will be able to use laptop own speakers to sound from this PCMCIA card?
- i'll have sound support even in dos?

The first two points: yes

The last one, I don't think so. But not 100% sure.

For DOS I find that this machine is way too new.

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Reply 2 of 6, by swaaye

Posted on 2015-04-14, 21:32

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Audigy 2 ZS Notebook differs from Audigy 2 ZS PCI in that:
-no hardware MIDI synth
-only supports Windows XP and later
-no gameport
-no firewire

There is also a potential issue with Cardbus bridge incompatibility causing sound problems:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/multimedia/d … digy2-zs_5.html

Reply 3 of 6, by vorob

Posted on 2015-04-17, 08:20

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-no hardware MIDI synth

What does that mean? What i'm missing?

Reply 4 of 6, by swaaye

Posted on 2015-04-17, 18:38

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It uses a software MIDI synthesizer. The Audigy PCI cards have 2 hardware MIDI synthesizers.

Reply 5 of 6, by ZanQuance

Posted on 2015-06-12, 19:45

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Has anyone opened one to see if it actually has the EMU10k2(.5) cpu in it? I was under the impression that creative just placed a codec in there and did the rest via software.

Reply 6 of 6, by swaaye

Posted on 2015-06-12, 21:27

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I did open one up years ago. It's not using the full-size Audigy PCI card chip. That doesn't mean it's not another implementation of EMU10K2 though.

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