Board:   [DoveNet] Pro-Audio Discussion
Subject: Creative Labs
From:    Nightfox
Date:    Tue Sep 09, 2025 11:22

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  Re: Creative Labs
  By: ZL4KJ to Nightfox on Tue Sep 09 2025 11:29 am

 ZL>  That is cool. I remember having high hopes for AdLib, I was a little
 ZL> dissapoint d they couldn't compete with Creative, I reluctantly got my
 ZL> SB16 in late'92, t ough I admit I never looked back once I had it
 ZL> installed :)

I never had an actual Adlib board;I started out with Sound Blaster cards, and I thought they provided great sound & good capabilities.  Once they started making the Sound Blaster 16 (which I think was the first that provided 16-bit audio), I think that made their sound on par with CD audio quality, which allowed for totally realistic sound (though I thought the 8-bit Sound Blaster 2.0 I had was pretty good too).

At one point, I had a 386sx-16, and I remember having one or two WAV files (with simple sound effects) that it struggled to play- the audio would come out choppy.  I guess that system at the time was a bit too slow for some audio, although I thought the Sound Blaster 16 did audio processing in hardware on the card.  Maybe it was an issue sending the audio data to the card..

Nightfox

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