First post, by voidstar
I got a SoundBlaster around the time Wing Commander 1 came out - but this was so long ago, I can't remember which version of SB (like SB 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 16, Pro). I can't even remember if it was 8-bit ISA or a 16-bit card (just pretty sure it wasn't any PCI card). I'm pretty sure it wasn't an AWE32 - although maybe it was? We had an AWE32 eventually, but I think that was years later. [that is, I think WC came out in 1990, but we might have actually gotten the sound card a year or two later - so some SB between 1990 and 1992].
But what I do remember is after installing the setup software it came with - there was a neat audio demo with a selection of files.
It wasn't MIDI. I'm not sure if it was VOC, WAV, maybe something else. It wasn't the Parrot demo or any animated kind of demo. It wasn't SB-TALKER, not FMORGAN, not MMPLAY.
I remember the GUI was mostly gray colored, you could select from a few files, and while playing the select audio - the GUI showed a visualization of the audio in a green on black wave signal (like an oscilloscope).
I've installed a few of the oldest SB installers that I can find, and so far can't track this down (they are annoying to install since you need to image each disk, and it's picky even about the LABELS on those disks). I'm pretty sure this wasn't under Windows, it was a DOS-based demo (but had a graphical GUI).
It was just a set of sample audio files (some of them like Techno music), but it had a cool GUI to play them (not a command line thing).
I've had the tune to one of these samples in my head for like a decade - I'd just like to track it down.
Does this seem familiar to anyone? Thanks!