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- From: sherman@ecadsr.enet.dec.com (My name is...)
- Subject: Re: Microsoft's Sound Board
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.011327.5354@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:09:34 GMT
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- In article <rdippold.724551631@cancun>, rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes...
- >jeb@fig.citib.com (James E. Bergman) writes:
- >>Hi. Does anyone know if Microsoft's sound board supports emaulation
- >>of other more popular sound boards? e.g. AdLib.
- >
- >They're not claiming such in any literature I've seen about it. I
- >suspect that Microsoft doesn't need it to be compatible - all they
- >care about are that the Windows drivers work.
- >
- >It does have 16-bit sampling, and a synthesizer chip, so it's not just
- >digitized stuff, but I have yet to see any specific mention of the
- >synthesizer they're using.
- >
- >
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- According to my brother, who works for Microsoft (but could be wrong, as far
- as I know), the Microsoft sound board is Adlib compatible but not Soundblaster
- compatible.
-
- Steve
-