Hot damn! The ES1869 sounds EXACTLY like my OPTi 929A! I found a few of ES1869 sound cards sitting inside a bin at a family friend's pawn shop. I'd better go snag one of those before they're taken! Considering I have an ESS Maestro-2, whose FM Synthesis leaves a little to be desired, it's quite a …

Thanks for the clip. It seems like the FM Synthesis is less rough on the SoundBlaster Pro 2 than on the OPTi 929A. I know one thing for sure: the sound effects are less filtered than on the OPTi 929A. Would you mind recording any of the in-game music? You could just record a little sound byte from …

I can record my SBPro 2 running X-Wing. Please do! I was looking into purchasing a SoundBlaster Pro 2 to replace my dual OPTi 929A/SoundBlaster AWE64 in my MS-DOS gaming PC.

How's the sound on that card compared to my OPTi 929A? Actually, does anyone have a SoundBlaster Pro or a SoundBlaster 16 with a discrete YMF262? How's the sound on those sound cards compared to my OPTi 929A?

Looks like it's time to do a little research on the early PCI SoundBlaster sound cards. Say, how rough is the sound on the OPTi 82C929A compared to other sound cards with discrete YMF262s?

Nope. The Ensoniq AudioPCI-based SoundBlaster sound cards have completely different sound on the FM side of things than the SoundBlaster Live! sound cards.

What is 4-OP FM? 4-Op FM is basically just another way of saying OPL3 FM Synthesis. LucasArts labels OPL3 FM Synthesis in the SETMUSE program included with X-Wing to set up your sound card as 4-Op FM because OPL3 FM Synthesis has 4 operators. AdLib, which is OPL2 FM Synthesis(produced by a YM3812; …

Since June, I've been going through a lot of different sound cards trying to find a good one to use for my MS-DOS gaming PC. In the process, I've been recording their sound in a variety of YouTube videos with different games. I've done two games so far and I will keep adding more later on. Game 1: …

I use a 20" Samsung SyncMaster 206BW on my main desktop computer. Has very nice colors, is very sharp and is nice and bright. For my MS-DOS and Windows 9x gaming PCs, however, I don't use monitors. I use a 27" Electrohome CRT TV with the S-Video or Composite outputs of each PC's graphics cards(ATI …