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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
what was really cool were the few games that would give realistic* music and speech from the internal motherboard speaker. No daughterboards or external speakers required. This was 386 era, I think.
* realistic as much as could be from that tiny internal speaker and 8 bits of data.
I still use an external Creative sound card so I can switch my speakers over USB between my work laptop and personal desktop!
220/5/1
1000 yard stare
In the grand scheme of things they were relatively inexpensive. You could spend a lot but you didn't need to.
Long live the Gravis Ultrasound Max!
I was a rebel and went with the Pro Audio 16
And of course there was a short period of time where a sound card wasn’t required, but would actually improve performance by offloading audio processing to your sound card if you had one. And onboard audio at that time wasn’t great anyways.
And the mind blowing difference in midi quality if you heard the upgrade the first time...
And of course there was a short period of time where a sound card wasn’t required, but would actually improve performance by offloading audio processing to your sound card if you had one
we are at this point in history, but for graphics cards :)
I'll give you 4 characters: 3dfx.
You can still get discrete sound cards (both internal and USB), though they're more for audiophile stuff. With the PS5 touting big 3d audio improvements and HRTFs I half expected manufacturers to make a push to bring them back or at least feature sound features more prominantly in motherboards but I guess CPUs these days can just spare the cycles if you want fancy audio.
Generating music still benefits from offloading to discrete devices though. Like using a synth or multitrack stuff.
Back when MIDI and the quality of your synthesizer actually mattered!
Gravis Ultrasound with red pcb reporting..
Did you get the matching Gravis Gamepad or was it late enough that you had a Microsoft Sidewinder?
Gravis gamepad :-)
Rock solid!
