Gregory's ServerThis Jazz16 based sound card from 1994 was my first sound card. Back then in a 486SX25. What was your first sound card?
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 @root42 It could be we both had the same setup. When asked for a gift i insisted on a soundcard *with* an input jack. (there were cheaper ones without). i remember getting a card (SB1.0) similar to that, with a volume dial on the back. put it in my SX25 based machine! :) that dreaded slow FPU-less (fractal software :(:(), black Escom-Bigtower housed budget cpu. Sampling was horrrrrrible, but i can clearly remember the Windows Soundrecorder; and my disappointment. nice flashback:)  @root42 I had a hand-built "Covox", a.k.a. resistor-grid on the parallel port in a literal machbox. Then an Adlib clone I think. Then an original SB 2.0. Then some SB Pro clone, ESS688 based. No idea where these went. Then finally a Gravis Ultrasound 1MB, so I can watch demos as they were intended. Still have this one, although I sold it for a while, and had a GUS PnP instead. @root42 Mine was a generic card based on the ESS AudioDrive 1688 chip. I stuck that puppy in my 486DX33. Those were the days! @root42 I can’t remember what was in my 386DX40, I think it also had a volume control wheel. But I do still have my Sound Galaxy Pro 16, which is currently in my P166MMX AT machine, which is in the 386’s original case.   @root42 I *had* to have it after watching a demo of Wing Commander at a software shop at the mall. It blew my mind that a game could have such great music throughout.  I don't know lol. That was our family PC and I was like 3 years old at the time we got it. But the first computer I had completely to myself had some sound chip built into the motherboard. It just worked on XP with no drivers or configuration. Matt, either way I did play a decent amount of DOS games when I was a kid, without realizing that they were, in fact, DOS games |
@root42 Sound Blaster Pro 2.0. Still own it. 🙂