leileilol wrote:I've had an unavoidable noise floor coming from the CS4231, and CS4232 and CS4248 chipsets. Noise is the big no-no for the crystal semiconductor cards
Odd... these chipsets usually come through the quality tests with high ratings: PCAVTech Sound Card Technical Benchmarks Test Summary
Locutus wrote:I suppose the CT2940 has the hanging notes bugThird party cards (e.g. Crystal based) on the other hand are never SB16 compatible
Usually not, but there are some exceptions: Sound Blaster 16 Clones The CMI8330 is my latest installment. I like it for now. But unfortunately havent been able to play around with my retro computer for the past six weeks now 😳 ...
Agrajag27 wrote:(from Rich Heimlich)
WOW, I must say I wish I saw this a lot sooner when you guys were still
discussing this. A friend pointed […]
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(from Rich Heimlich)
WOW, I must say I wish I saw this a lot sooner when you guys were still
discussing this. A friend pointed me to this thread. Thanks for the kind words and MANY thanks for the last patch set overview I did as I actually had lost it and meant to track it down. Now I have it again.........
.......... Sorry to get to this, again, so late but it's still great to see. One of these days I have some stories to share about Creative and some things they did but I'm sort of waiting for a few people to pass on before I spill the beans. Hoping I'm still around after that to tell it.
Wow, I never expected you to show up, it is an honour! I look forward to you spilling some beans 😉. Even though ISA soundcards are no longer marketing, as in the time you were writing about them, but are now mostly surplus garbage with a certain nostalgia.
Agrajag27 wrote:Frankly I'm a bit surprised that in 2009 we still haven't found the Valhalla of emulation yet. The digital end is pretty straight-forward and emulating an AdLib one would think would be quite possible.
So I guess my question is, is it that the emulation is that difficult or is it that not enough people, with the talent to knock the doors off this, really care about it today?
There is DosBox, the full Dos Gaming system emulator. Its Adlib emulation is told to be good. It requires a very fast system to play the later dos games though. Also hardware enthousiasts would miss the feeling of tweaking an actual DOS system. But for all others DosBox is usually the way to go in 2009.
Also there is AdPlug which just plays Adlib music files, optionally through emulation.
As for a Dos TSR that emulates a soundcard regardless of hardware; I don't know any. There is VDMsound for windows though, but quite a few dos games cannot run properly from within windows.