what sound card do you use in your old pc?

[skaar]

An AWE32 will give you 100% SB16 compatibility (hardware compatibilty - no drivers required)

I think they had a later revision that was a smaller card that required special drivers for SB16 or it emulated it somehow...

It would be my choice for an old sound card in a DOS box. For games that support it, it supports sound banks for midi very similarly to the Gravis but without as much tweaking of drivers to get everything to work properly. You can also throw more 30 pin (iirc) ram in there to fit more samples.

I paid $400 for one of those cards one summer and used it for years afterwards.

[Soviet Conscript]

An AWE32 will give you 100% SB16 compatibility (hardware compatibilty - no drivers required)

I think they had a later revision that was a smaller card that required special drivers for SB16 or it emulated it somehow...

It would be my choice for an old sound card in a DOS box. For games that support it, it supports sound banks for midi very similarly to the Gravis but without as much tweaking of drivers to get everything to work properly. You can also throw more 30 pin (iirc) ram in there to fit more samples.

I paid $400 for one of those cards one summer and used it for years afterwards.

i may try replaceing my SB16 with my AWE32 then. the guy I got it off of was supposedly a big audiofile back in the day both the ram banks are full with ram

how does the sampleing work? do you have to download some kind of file depending on the game you want to use it with?

[Jorpho]

do you have to download some kind of file depending on the game you want to use it with?

If a game supports it, it will take care of everything for you. Otherwise you can manually download soundfonts into the sound card's RAM, depending on your preferences.

[blue lander]

On my 8 bit PC XT I use an Adlib card because I can't use 16 bit Extended ISA cards, but "back in the day" I always used a Soundblaster with my 486. It seemed like it was the default choice amongst most PC owners back then.

[Flack]

SB16 was the standard. Back then you either had a SoundBlaster card, or a SoundBlaster-compatible card. I knew a few people who had Gravis Ultrasound (GUS) cards, but 99% of the programs out there were written for the SB16 (of that era). The AWE32 is a good choice too. I got one new at Comdex one year ... I have an AWE64 out in the garage as well.

[Soviet Conscript]

i've been reading diffrent things about the awe32. can the awe32 emulate the MT-32?

[skaar]

i've been reading diffrent things about the awe32. can the awe32 emulate the MT-32?

Yes with drivers you can. At least I've done it... in 199X

Couldn't tell you how to anymore.

The AWE64 wasn't as good as it emulated an SB16 rather than having it in hardware... think PS3