Soundcard comparison
Soundcard comparison
Soundcard comparison
Amstrad PC1640
Amstrad PC1640
- Sound Blaster Pro 2 - ISA 16 card in a ISA 8 slot.
- Lots of noise from the CF card
- Very good compability with Adlib and SB
- Good OPL sound in Monkey Island
- Score 2
DECpc LPx 433
DECpc LPx 433
- Sound Blaster 16 PnP - ISA 16
- Some background noise
- Very good compability with Adlib and SB
- Good OPL sound in Monkey Island
- Score 3
IBM PS/2-30/286
IBM PS/2-30/286
- AWE64 Value - 512Kb RAM - ISA
- with SBPNPXT and aweutil /s to make it work.
- With Chorus and Reverb set to 20 it is the best sund ever.
- Fantastisc Adlib/OPL sound in Monkey Island. MT32 not so good.
- Score 5
IBM PS/2-55sx.
IBM PS/2-55sx.
- Covox speach thing copy
- with Temu - Tandy emulator. Check my YouTube video
- Bad sound. But still cool technically. (Run with "monkey.exe ts")
- Score 1 (but 10 for coolness)
TCI Pentium II
TCI Pentium II
- AWE64 Value - 512Kb RAM - ISA
- Windows 98SE with AWE Gold drivers.
- Exelent sound in Win98. Works with all Windows Games.
- Runs Monkey Island in DOS from Windows. Supports Roland / General Midi, but not Adlib /OPL. Sound is very good but not great. OPL sound best.
- Score 4
Dell XPS - 1997 - 1988
Dell XPS - 1997 - 1988
- Sound Blaster Audigy 2 zs - SB0350.
- Windows 98SE with VxD drivers. (With WDM drivers there was DOS compatibility)
- Excellent sound from Windows games. Especially with Roland MT32 soundfonts.
- No Compability with DOS games from windows.
- With Audigy Dos drivers the Roland MT32 sounds perfect. Some compability problems with some games and demos. But when it works it sounds amazing.
- Score 5