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- From: swkgohw@nuscc.nus.sg (Sir Launcelot Du Lac)
- Subject: Re: SB16 Released at Last!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.025556.4542@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Organization: National University of Singapore
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- References: <rwyckoff.25.724387918@cardinal.sc107.wesleyan.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:55:56 GMT
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- : HELLO? The GUS does MIDI! With wavetable sounds, built in! No
-
- Er....according to some chaps here, the GUS has no prebuilt sounds, but
- relies on patches in RAM
-
- : let's see here. Little software support. Hmm, oh yes, let's see if this
- : rings any bells - Wing Commander Privateer with SB16 support - oh yeah, I
- : remember seeing that. Not! StarCon2, that one SURELY supports the SB16, I
- : mean the card was only released 1 month after the game was, and it is, after
- : all, common practice to support unreleased sound cards. In fact, I remember
- : seeing a whole slew of shareware utilities for the SB16 on wuarchive, just
- : yesterday. (Note: heavy sarcasm.)
- :
- No, my argument is that if General MIDI is going to be a sound option for
- all games in the future, then the GUS standard wouldst be irrelevant, as
- will the SB standard. Whether or not both card have MIDI is a different
- issue.
-
- Oh, the SB16 is also fully downward compatible, so at least thou canst
- still get to the older games
-
- : Hello again. The PAS16 does hardware emulation. That's hardware.
-
- Aye, the PAS16 is using SB technology, the lawsuit by Creative made that
- obvious.
-
- : Y'know, those green plastic things ya stick in those slots? It's NOT
- : software. It has the complete chips of the MediaVision Thunderboard (
-
- I was referring to having IRQs and stuff being software-controlled and not
- through jumper switches. In all fairness, the SB16 now has its IRQ
- setting software controlled (the DMA and Port addresses art still jumper
- selectable). However, so far, there's no problem with the IRQ. One
- wouldn't expect that anyway, 'twould be ridiculous for SB16 to be
- incompatible with the SB technology!
-
-
- : an SB knockoff) built in. I know people who own them. And when was the
- : last time you were able to download a hardware upgrade, anyway? A new
- : version of SBOS for the GUS has already been released, and I've had about
- : 90% success with that. (as opposed to 80% for the old version). Considering
- : that of those 90% of games that SBOS will emulate SB for, a further 50% will
-
- I already have about 10 devices and TSRs loaded (and still have 627 KB
- free thanks to PCTools RAMBoost!), I don't relish having to put another if
- I can help it.
-
- : >Anyway, already gotten my SB16 ASP :):)
- : Well, congratulations.
-
- Thank thee :):)
-
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