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- From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
- Subject: Re: GUS SB emulation
- Message-ID: <Bxzp2B.Gyt@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <c60a-lj.722065923@danube.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:51:46 GMT
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- In article <c60a-lj.722065923@danube.Berkeley.EDU> c60a-lj@danube.Berkeley.EDU (LAB ASSISTANT) writes:
- >
- >Well, it looks like its time to upgrade the old ThunderBoard to something
- >better -- I'm pretty sold on getting the GUS -- but the quesrion of the hour
- >is: Just how well does the SB TSR work??
- >
-
- Depeding on the game, the SB TSR can work very well or not at all. I
- haven't tried very many games, but so far, Falcon 3.0 works 'Okay' with
- it (music only slightly worse than a true SB, and digitized voices much
- worse), and Stunt Island works great (music sounds better from the GUS
- than from the SB).
-
- >Yeah, yeah, I've read all the other posts, but can someone who actually has
- >one PLEASE tell me if it is SB compatible. I mean, my thunderboard may be
- >crap -- but it sounds awesome when I play WIng Commander, and I've never
- >played a game that supported SB or Adlib that my Thunderboard didn't work
- >on.
- >
-
- I've moved up to the Ultrasound without giving up perfect SB compatibility
- by keeping both cards in my machine.
-
- Phat.
-