Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : StormTrooper
From : boraxman
Date : Sat Apr 30 2022 21:54:24

 St>  bo> Mods, S3M's, 669's, Impulse Tracker, they were the bomb!  When I got 
 St>  bo> 386, it had an Adlib card.  The Adlib card had an OPL2 chip, but no D
 St>  bo> So FM Synthesis only, yet mod players could play mods through them,
 St>  bo> albeit quietly. Some even supported the PC speaker, which sounded, we
 St>  bo> not as good as Adlib.
 St> 
 St> Hmm If I recall right, ModTracker for the PC came with schematics for a
 St> parallel port D2A converter... either a resistor ladder type or a DAC0800
 St> chip. It actually worked better than the adlib. 
 St> 
 St> ST

I do remember that, a friend of mine had built one, which answered the question of what the "DAC" option for sound output device in some mod players actually meant.

I'm glad I've got a couple of working Sound Blasters (including that Sound Blaster Pro 2, though two SB16's I have don't works).  The SoundBlaster had what seemed to be to my ears, a distinctive "sound blaster" unqiue quality of sound.

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