Come on, Vogons! Does nobody know the answers to those simple questions?

I was just rereading some threads here and got curious that nowhere someone really mentioned the Dream based soundcards. How are they rated and where do I have to sort them in between the other more known GM-cards. like this one: http://mail.lipsia.de/~enigma/neu/pics/maxisound.jpg I use an EWS64XL …

Hi! Not long ago I bought an old Diamond Monstersound II 300MX from ebay. I wanted to play those old(er) games that support a3d, now having the soundcard and the cpu-power to take advantage of the possibilities of the vortex2 chip. I started with Jedi Knight on my retro PC with win98 - no problems, …

I know this is really off-topic but.... Putting a Voodoo2 and Voodoo1 on the same computer? :shocked: So it's actually possible? The Miro Hiscore series came with special drivers for their Voodoo1 and Voodoo2-Boards (the Voodoo1 "Hiscore3d" is a clone of the Canopus Pure 3d with 6MB on it, I've …

I've heard you mention something about a "Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro16" and that it supports the Disney Sound Source. Isn't that a parallel-port device? I'm curious on how that works. You're right, Riboflavin, DSS was a parallel-port device and the Covox Speech Thing too. The Sound Galaxy simply …

Okay... wrong place, wrong time... but here I am again: and the game still played out of my Sound Blaster even when specified to use the gravis with the command line! If you dare something very special, try this: - pull everthing out of your machine, exept vga, hardisk with starcon2, Ultrasound ACE …

Furthur investigation is necessary. How right your are... ... I just rebuilded my 286-experimental-station yesterday, and it worked as I have described it. I managed to connect it to some speakers and turned the volume down - I would say it is stereo, if stereo means that the drum is on the right …

I mean the "pseudo-stereo". See, SC2 uses .MOD audio files, which is only available in mono back then. I knew that because my friend manually ripped all the song files from the executable using a hex editor! Shocked And when I played them using ModPlay Pro (MPPRO.COM --a text-based MOD player in …

Wow. Star Control 2 works. Tatatarataa! Congratulations! I already feared it could have been some kind of "lucky punch"! I mean the "pseudo-stereo". See, SC2 uses .MOD audio files, which is only available in mono back then. I knew that because my friend manually ripped all the song files from the …

Does it sound better with GUS? How about the "stereo effect"? Better than SB? I would say yes! But I'm not sure if the reason is a better build-in amplifier or (my guess) the better chip / sound format. As I've already mentioned - it was a very, very loud experience and yesterday I didn't have the …

So yeah, Star Control with a GUS. Maybe... someday. ...Riboflavin, well, how should I say it, mhm... I DID IT! And here is how: I took my old, old 286 / 12Mhz AT with DOS 5.0 out of his dusty corner, installed the GUS Classic, then Star Control 2, copied the Ultrinit.exe file on the Harddisk, …

Rick12373 - Question: What refresh rates do you get playing system shock at the highest resolution with the Diamond Stealth 3d 2000? As far as I know this card is equipped with a S3-Virge "3d"- Chip. This chip is regarded to be very compatible in Dos-games, but image-quality in Windows (at "higher" …

Thanks for your answer, Riboflavin! In fact I usually bypassed the "GUS-and-other-soundcard-in one-system"-problem by using a boot menu in DOS 6.2, where there are (in the autoexec.bat.) configurations available, in wich the GUS is not initiated at all (I think this was possible because the Classic …

Hello! I have them both - a Gravis Ultrasound Classic and the ACE. And every time I build up a new "retro-computer" I try to use one of them to finaly hear this great mod-sound in one of my favourite games - Star Control 2 - and every time I fail. The game does not start, the pc freezes, no matter …