12 Jan
2004
12 Jan
'04
1:01 p.m.
I've have a couple soundblaster Pro's (CT1350Bs I think), Several
variations of SoundBlaster 16, the soundblaster wavetable add-on board
for the 16, a Gravis Ultrasound PnP, a couple MS Windows Sound System
cards, and a "Game Blaster" card.
Most my SB16s are in PCs since they work well enough for modern stuff
and work with "classic" PC games that want a Sound Blaster or AdLib
card.
I would like to have an AdLib card, but have not run into any.
Paul
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 13:02, Jason McBrien wrote:
Anyone collect antique sound cards? What would be
considered a "Classic?"
Here's my list:
E-Mu/Digidesign MacProteus - NuBus card for Mac, a whole Proteus sound
module on a card. One of the all time classic synthesizer modules.
E-Mu Drumulator - Early 80's drum machine with computer (Apple II!)
interface
Gravis UltraSound - Enough said...
Digidesign Samplecell - Sampler card, I've always wanted to play with one of
these.
Ensoniq SoundScape - Early hardware wavetable card. 68000 controlled (had to
load the firmware from DOS before booting into Linux to get it to work) Nice
sounding samples for it's time.
Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16 - The old standard, now superceeded by AC'97.
MediaVision ProAudio Spectrum - An early SoundBlaster competitor, arguably
much better quality sound output
My collection:
Ensoniq SoundScape ISA - The original model
Ensoniq AudioPCI - ES1370 model, interesting because you can use
SoundBlaster PCI64 drivers with it, it's the same card :)
MediaVision ProAudio Spectrum 16 NuBus - One of the first Mac sound cards,
cool breakout box with PC joystick port
Creative Labs 3doBlaster - 3DO game console on an ISA card. No drivers or
anything, but it's so wierd it's cool.