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Turtle beach Monte Carlo ?

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First post, by Intel486dx33

Posted on 2018-06-22, 22:28

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Hi, I just got in the mail a Turtle Beach Monte Carlo ISA sound card
model # PCBSP16&2#31
p\n 500.2

Is this card any good?
I want to use it in a 486 build with Win3x or should I use Win95 or Win98 ?

It has a Crystal chipset CS4248-KL and a Yamaha OPL YMF-262-M chip.

I bought it because I remember turtle beach cards being very popular in the 1990's

Reply 1 of 4, by cyclone3d

Posted on 2018-06-23, 02:35

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Should be fine for SB Pro and OPL3 in DOS.. and it has a wavetable header.

It should do Windows Sound System in Windows for 16-bit sound.

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Reply 2 of 4, by leileilol

Posted on 2018-06-29, 21:45

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It's only good on paper. The PCM can be quiet (or was it the OPL3 being absurdly loud and distorted). The SB emulation driver also takes up quite a bit of memory and I think the gameport gave stalling issues. This is probably the worst Turtle Beach sound card ever made and one of the worst WSS cards I know of.

There's also no Directsound driver for it later on so it's also a very poor choice for Win9x.

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