Reply 40 of 71, by aquishix
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Yes, I know some people don't like posting to old threads, but I'd rather do that in this case than create a new one.
I have some interesting news to report.
I have two very old Sound Blaster cards: a Sound Blaster 1.5 (CT1320C) and a Sound Blaster 2.0 (CT1350B). Both have the C/MS upgrade chips installed, and both have the OPL2 chips removed. (I removed the FM1312 chip but left the FM1314 chip installed in the SB 1.5, but I don't know if it matters or not.)
When playing on the SB 2.0, the C/MS music in Prince of Persia messes up for me very similarly to how people on here have described it(and recorded it), but not *exactly*. Close enough, though.
When playing it on the SB 1.5, it sounds AMAZING! I'll try to record it tonight and post the recording on this thread so people can hear what it's supposed to sound like. It's unmistakably the way it's supposed to sound, and sounds nothing like the Adlib music. The digital effects come through in the game itself and sound very similar if not identical to the Sound Blaster sound effects.
All of this is being done on an original XT -- an IBM 5160 with a "new style" CGA card, I believe. I have 2 or 3 different CGA cards and I'll confirm that tonight.
Something else of note, which I thought was pretty amusing. This XT has a dual monitor setup because I also have a Hercules card installed, with the output going to an amber monochrome Hercules monitor. The CGA card is feeding a Gorilla green monochrome monitor identical to the one I had as a child. When the flashing effects happen in the game, the flashes occur on the CGA monitor, not the Hercules monitor, even when the game is running in Hercules mode and all the normal graphics are going to the Hercules monitor. That happens in the intro, and in the game when picking up the sword.
I'd also like to mention that I tried several other games using C/MS sound and music options, and almost all of them screwed up using the SB 2.0. I think Budokan and Conquests of Camelot were the only ones that had even remotely pleasing C/MS sound with the SB 2.0, and as I discovered when trying those two with the SB 1.5, it wasn't complete on the SB 2.0. I can make detailed recordings of all this and post them later.