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First post, by abyss

Posted on 2007-02-01, 16:02

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Is the new sound blaster fully backwards compatible with previous versions. I want check for sure if it is backwards compatible with older versions.

Reply 1 of 2, by DosFreak

Posted on 2007-02-01, 16:31

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Backwards compatible with older versions of what?

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Reply 2 of 2, by Kippesoep

Posted on 2007-02-01, 16:49

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The recent versions of the Sound Blaster (anything that comes in a PCI slot) are not truly compatible with the old ISA versions. AFAIK, no PCI sound card is 100% hardware compatible with the old SBs.

It shouldn't really be a problem, though. The new cards all have suitable Windows drivers and the old cards can be rather convincingly emulated by DOSBox.

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