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Those whippersnappers have it so easy these days! They don't even know what an interrupt is any more!
Anyone else remember having to set interleave on an RLL hard drive? "First you have to low-level format..."
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Sure, skippy. Take off the mask.
Fuck Creative. Letigious patent troll is the whole reason why 3D audio in games was stuck in the dark ages technologically for the longest time.
Pro Audio Spectrum 16 gang represent.
At least it was a real name. Nowadays it seems like every new company's name is just a random jumble of letters solely because that .com was available.
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They're still around and they still make cards. The onboard audio in my PC broke, so I bought an Audigy FX and it's served me ever since.
I think these days most people use their video card as a sound card because monitors/displays generally have audio out as well.
But yeah. I remember having endless problems getting one of the Splinter Cells to run (I want to say Pandora Tomorrow?). After literally weeks of googling and discussing the issue on forums with others with the same problem, we found out that it had issues with the onboard sound for certain motherboards. Went out to Best Buy, bought the cheapest soundblaster they had, and no problems.
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This hasn’t crossed my mind in decades. Not even in a “remember when” sense.
I still have a sound card, because I have a stupid sound bar that works great except it only takes optical audio input.
Not only that but they also had the serial input for joysticks.
So if you played some Wing Commander with a game pad or stick you probably had this card.
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But you got the connector for a Joystick for free!
Ah, i remember might & magic 3. loved it, because it sent speech through the crappy pc speaker. So cool
I'm still rocking an Audigy 2 on my main computer for that 1/4" jack on the front bay
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Got a second hand ISA interface SoundBlaster 64 at a computer fair in San Diego when I was visiting there for the best summer of my life in 1998. If I remember correctly it was $4.
Money well spent.
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Miss that era and wish that there were more options for PCI “premium” sound cards. All of the fancy DACs and audio interfaces are seemingly USB.
The inside of the PC is electrically hostile to good sound quality. Loads of electrical noise.
USB is an excellent use of a sound interface.
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Not the same thing, but I still have my old Voodoo 2 3D-accelerator card (not the same thing as a video card back then).
I miss my Voodoo 2 3000 AGP card.
I got an ABIT Siluro/ Geforce 2 MX400 after that and Diablo 2 ran worse, the frame rate tanked. I was gutted.
Back in the day I tried to play Morrowind but every time I moved my mouse the game would crash, I started removing hardware until I found out it was my soundcard giving me issues, was an old ISA slot. Got a PCI soundcard after that and no issues.
Those were the days.
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I had the original voodoo 3Dfx in 50lbs Alienware case with a 75 lbs 20+ inch crt.. can’t remember the exact size. Wrong choice for university living at the time
VESA local bus. It was the shit and nothing was ever going to be better. Until next year.
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You had to use Voodoo to see the magic 3d graphics
IRQ 5, I/O 220, DMA 01 🤘🏻
I was poor, so mine was typically running the "or SoundBlaster compatible" card.
Most of the time it was IRQ 7 for me.
Yeah, IRQ7 was also pretty common for sound cards as long as you didn't need to print at the same time. For DOS games, that wasn't a big deal but if you were running Windows and multitasking with something that played sound (I was an early adopter of MP3s), you couldn't use both at the same time.
My first Pentium PC was all kinds of awful because it used that IBM Mwave combo sound card /modem. You couldn't use the modem and play sound at the same time or it would lock the PC up. It was also configured by default to use IRQ7, so if you were online, you couldn't print either. At least I was able to work around the latter by setting it to IRQ5.
Ugh..
How did PCs beat out the Amiga, Mac and ST with nonsense like that?
Phoenix BIOS/The BIOS Wars
Because I could play the same copies of the same games on my Tandy 1000, the IBM PCs at school, and my friend's Packard Bell. Standardized architecture was, and still is, a huge draw.
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Wait, he didn’t even get to the part where you had to configure it!!
Seriously. And they also didn’t cover the part where the damn driver would randomly get corrupted every now and then
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IRQ 5?
I thought 7 was the magic number