From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 3 13:53:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA29661 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 13:53:37 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA29654 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 13:53:36 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA11843; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 13:53:17 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: time.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Recommended sound card for 1.1.5.1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Jan 95 10:06:07 EST." Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1995 13:53:16 -0800 Message-ID: <11842.789169996@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > And can be found used even cheaper (I got mine for around $25). Only problem > is that they truly suck under Windows 3.1 and Windows NT (at least on my > system), so if you use multiple OS's you might want to go for the Sound > Blaster Pro (still pretty cheap). Why do they suck so bad? All the Pro is going to get you is the rather dubious stereo it achieves by wiring the electronic equivalent of two SB VE's to the same board! The sound isn't going to be necessarily better, since it's the same sound source, just doubled. Is it the *software* support that's superious under Windows? If so, then this might be the thing. I never use my SB under Windows for anything but general monaural digital output, so I wouldn't notice any such shortcomings.. Actually, all my sound cards are now SB16+ASP+WB combos or the AWE32 and I *still* don't really use all that weird shit they give you for Windows! :-) Now if I had an X package that fully supported playing Midi files on the higher-end Creative Labs cards, that would be nifty.. Jordan