"No sound available due to an invalid or conflicting irq" today's kids wouldn't understand.
@GraveUypo
5 жыл бұрын
i still remember it for my first computer. sorta. i think it was 3 numbers but i only remember 2 of them. irq 7, dma 3... what was the other setting? i can't remember! but i remember it was 5.
@ivanromanchenko459
3 жыл бұрын
@@GraveUypo 16bit DMA P.s. I am 17 y.o., but few weeks ago i have found 20 years old computer at the loft, so we with my father installed win98se on it I want to run dos games like duke3d or blood on it with sound, but can't configure soundfx parameter because sound card is for pci
@marcello4258
3 жыл бұрын
irq7 on the soundcard - always haha
@ivanromanchenko459
3 жыл бұрын
@@marcello4258 i'll check, maybe it will work
@marcello4258
3 жыл бұрын
@@ivanromanchenko459 ah.. that was MY settin.. as far as i remember IRQ is set during drive installation and MAYBE found in the autoexec.bat when the driver gets loaded but not 100% sure atm
@dergrunepunkt
5 жыл бұрын
Nice video Phil, strange coincidence, last week I was able to buy a AWE32 complete in box locally, kinda crazy. Well done vid once more.
@eviltigz
5 жыл бұрын
My first PC had no CD drive so I bought a multimedia kit which included a quad speed CD drive and this very card. Oh the memories. :)
@BCProgramming
5 жыл бұрын
Had the same card like a lot of people here. Was given to me in around 2002-2003 and saw use up until around 2007 when I upgraded that PC from Windows 98SE to Windows XP. I had to swap it for a Generic Sound Blaster PCI Because it had sound dropout problems I couldn't fix in Windows XP. I had kept it but it and the rest of my collection of old computer stuff I ended up getting rid of around 2012 because of 'Life stuff'. If I knew how much some of the stuff I had would eventually go for on eBay I think I probably would have held onto it!
@NightSprinter
6 ай бұрын
Time to put the comment count to the number of an FPU! :D I own an AWE32, using it in place of my SE440BX-2's on-board YMF-740C audio (possible PCI incompatibilities if I remember), but SoftMPU and FIXMPU are game changers these days for cards with MIDI ports affected by the buggy DSP revisions. I just need to get two 16MB simms so I can run it at the full 28MB, and use FastTracker II and/or ImpulseTracker for playback on the EMU hardware.
@philscomputerlab
5 ай бұрын
Yea so many awesome tools that fix issues 😊
@NightSprinter
5 ай бұрын
@@philscomputerlab it's just debating now if I want to just use the Yamaha (and do the workarounds for the Apogee games) for games and the demos that need the SBPro for stereo, or just use the AWE32 alongside my MonsterSound MX-300 and GUS PnP Pro. Mostly as my Slot-1 build only has an Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard. Also, suggestions on switching between a P2-333 and P3 for games, or try to look into a VIA-C3 for an all-in-one build with this setup?
@out4space
4 жыл бұрын
wow super mint :O I am really impressed how good some other people treat packaging etc. (like I do... maybe OCD haha). Thanks man. Very interesting to watch!
@amdintelxsniperx
5 жыл бұрын
always loved sound cards with up gradable ram
@sergiofagundes1972
5 жыл бұрын
It was my best sound card. I have it in working condition with a good pair os non amplified sound blaster speakers.
@brostenen
5 жыл бұрын
I had one a couple of years ago. Sold it, as I did not like the wavetable instruments. Sure it is a nice card, both 2760 and 3900. I just like the Dreamblaster-S1 better for some reason.
@soylentgreenb
5 жыл бұрын
One of the really nice things with the AWE 32 is that it takes standard memory modules; as standard as 30-pin simms are. I found myself 2x16 MB (for a total of 28 MB adressable; top 4 MB is reserved adress space and cannot be used) and it wasn't that expensive despite ordering this stuff from the US. Had it been some bespoke non-standard memory solution as was used on the AWE64, 32 MB would have costed ten times as much.
@philscomputerlab
5 жыл бұрын
I didn't have 16 MB SIMMs, so that was disturbing LOL
@soylentgreenb
5 жыл бұрын
@@philscomputerlabI needed the memory anyway and didn't have 30 pin simms. I decided on 32 MB mostly because I want to use the 27.5 MB chorium rev A soundfont and a 25 MB soundfont intended to emulate the Roland SC-55, which it does kind-of-sort-of successfully. It was for a win 95, pentium mmx 233 machine. Almost all the DOS games I want to run on it I'd run from windows anyway.
@JohnSmith-iu8cj
Жыл бұрын
We had one with our first P166 Windows 95 PC, a monster with scsi and mirovideo DC10 or 30 video capture card. Many problems, all those cards conflicted heavily and in the end the company had to replace the PC with a Pentium II 2 years later, which was boring in comparison.
@briangleeson1528
5 жыл бұрын
Hi Phil, This is a great video (as usual). And perfect timing, as I am working with one of these right now. Mine is a CT3600, and is ISA. I can get it to work in DOS and Windows 95 recognized it right away. Games worked in DOS and I was playing a music CD and Myst in Windows. However, I have found that the sound card is completely messing up the functionality of my A: drive. The drive is visible in DOS and Windows 95, but suffers constant read, write issues. I have no idea why the two would not play nice with each other. If I take the card out and remove all reference to it, the A: drive seems to work again. I am thinking of trying to find an even older SB as I am focusing on a 386/ DOS 6.22 build.
@philscomputerlab
5 жыл бұрын
Very strange...
@ctg8337
4 жыл бұрын
Phil . . . this is probably the first video of yours that I have not liked. Why? Because I have owned and used an AWE32 for 26 years (currently in my K-6/2+ gaming rig) and I am just learning that it supports more than 8MB of RAM for soundfonts and can act as an MP-401 emulator, and that Sierra released a patch to support AWE on some games and that there is a MT-32 soundfont (still not as good as the real thing). Sigh . . . well I am happy to know it can now do those things, but the hours of not maximizing its potential are vexing. Thanks Phil!
@mikv8
5 жыл бұрын
In case you're wondering the CT3900 is the best of all AWE32 cards out there and the CT 2760 being the next one to get. The CT3990 is probably the worst out of bunch.
@ErikMinecraft
5 жыл бұрын
Finally a sound card rewiev again. I really love those, please review more retro soundcards :)
@CaptainDangeax
5 жыл бұрын
I owned the very first model, with mitsumi panasonic sony cd interfaces, and not PnP. At the time I still had the 2x mitsumi cdrom drive. It was a great sound card for everything. I made Vinyl to MP3 transfert with it, and the sound capture quality was great with a very low noise and distorsion level. Later, a customer of my computer shop was a musician, and he had problems with his turtle beach. I sold him my old AWE32, with 32 MB of ram (28 usable), his Yamaha percussion daughter board fitted on it, and the AWE64 gold drivers installed. So in one board he had : - original hardware OPL3 - 32 wavetable channels from the Emu8000 with the huge ram - 32 soundwave channels from the AWE64 driver - 32 percussion channel from his yamaha daughterboard.
@johnhunt1725
7 ай бұрын
I bought mine as soon as they came out and put 32MB on it. I think I paid like $220 for it. I'm still kicking myself for selling it back in the early 2000s when I thought it was obsolete junk.
@PierreVonStaines
5 жыл бұрын
That is one heck of donation, a boxed AWE32! Wowzers! You lucky ducky Phil! ;)
@AmstradExin
5 жыл бұрын
Huh? You find these at the dump. I still kept one because I think the packaging looks kinda cool and I have so many bare SB32/AWE to use.
@PierreVonStaines
5 жыл бұрын
@@AmstradExin That's a bit good. It's sound the dumps you go to are a treasure trove of retro soundcard goodness.
@AmstradExin
5 жыл бұрын
@@PierreVonStaines Mine has so much, I can show you some of the stuff in Imgur.
@IP-nj4xi
5 жыл бұрын
Hey AmstradExin, since you have so many excess cards that you keep finding in the dump, please send some my way!
@BilisNegra
5 жыл бұрын
The idea of REMOVABLE memory sticks in a consumer grade (however expensive) audio card feels so crazy today. What a cool view.
@philscomputerlab
5 жыл бұрын
A whopping 32MB :D
@BilisNegra
5 жыл бұрын
@@philscomputerlab Yeah, I was also amazed by that RAM size, since it was at least on a par with what a whole well specced 1995 PC would have installed as main RAM, if not more!
@guspaz
5 жыл бұрын
Final Fantasy 7's original PC release supported the AWE32. It shipped with AWE32-specific MIDI files and included SF2 soundfonts in a few different sizes. It also included a special soundfont with vocals for the final boss fight (One Winged Angel).
@AIM9XSW
3 жыл бұрын
Finding an AWE32 CT3990 (PnP) is tough...even the CT2760 (non-PnP version) is rare. If the goal is strictly AWE32 MIDI for MS-DOS games, an AWE32 Value or AWE64 both work great.
@Solarnova
5 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy my AWE32 CT3980 PnP, and use it all the time for legacy gaming on my MS-DOS 6.22 system, I believe it was the last one by Creative Labs to feature a Yamaha OPL3 chip.
@eldontyrellcorp
5 жыл бұрын
That's the card I had in my PC in the mid 90's. I recently found one on a flea market for 2€ (and with a opl3 chip !). This was in my opinion the best DOS windows soundcard back at this time.
@IP-nj4xi
5 жыл бұрын
You do get the OPL3 Yamaha chip if you have an earlier model! The CT2760, CT3900, CT3980, CT3780, CT3910 all have it. I love my AWE32 for that chip and the SPDIF! Perfect FLAC encoded rips of old school gaming music.
@GearSeekers
5 жыл бұрын
Oh man I have not seen one of these for so long! Such an awesome card!
@HowardBaileyMusic
3 жыл бұрын
I used to access the digital interface on my AWE32 card through the S/PDIF pins and then I soldered an RCA connector onto the other end of that line. I connected the RCA to my digital interface card (GINA by ECHO circa:1996) which had an RCA S/PDIF input port. It sounded great. I used the Vienna Soundfont Studio software to create dozens of soundfonts from live drums, bass and other acoustic instruments. I also sampled quite a few analog synthesizer patches from the Roland JX-3P and the Juno 106. It was a pretty good representation of those instruments long before VST/AU plugin synths became available.
@alexfinns6162
2 жыл бұрын
I found a AWE32 CT2760 in a dumpster find pc (an AMD K6 III 450), it’s so cool, it’s right here next to me now! 😊
@Inkvisitor
3 жыл бұрын
I watched this several times now after ordering a new 486 with a CT3600 sound card. That's almost an AWE32 so this review is close enough and nice tip on the SPDIF bracket! Thanks!
@RETROCENGO
5 жыл бұрын
Beautiful review Phil, love your videos and your website. Im hooked on the GM emulation in Win98SE. The AWE32/64 is the best DOS soundcard ever😍🤓
@andreaskardasis4957
4 жыл бұрын
Really great in-depth review, Phil - this was my favorite sound card of all that were in my PCs when I was a kid. I was really into MIDI and how games sounded. I went from an LAPC, to a Yamaha CBX-T3 module, to the AWE32. The AWE32 was really the ultimate and pinnacle of 90s PC gaming for me. Thank you for bringing me back to my childhood :-)
@jeffm2787
3 жыл бұрын
I had one of these, hated it. Bought it new. The midi part was garbage. Had an AWE64 Gold as well, bit better.
@RicardoFelicioOficial
Жыл бұрын
Greetings. Here in Brazil this 1995 version had some very interesting programs. One of them was the Cake Walk Express. It simulated a musical score, allowing 16 instruments out of the 256 cataloged on the Yamaha chip. I don't know where we could open the files generated from musical projects by this program. The fact is that such files end up without their respective support programs and all the art developed is lost. My AWE is still installed in an old 486DX120, but it has been shut down for 25 years. Thanks for the video.
@WanderfalkeAT
11 ай бұрын
Playing Tie Fighter with this card in the 90's - Never forget it! If you used Midi together with the Hall and Chorus Effects it was close to a Orchestra playing! I still use a Soundblaster Card in my PC, even if the Onboard Chip supports any Game Sounds completely. I use a Sennheiser Headset and with the Surround Simulation it sounds as if I have a 7.1 Bose Surround System in almost every Game. They kept the Chorus and Hall Effects in the Z Series, it just doesn't have Midi anymore.
@philscomputerlab
11 ай бұрын
That game indeed sounded amazing with MIDI.
@BEXYSPC
5 жыл бұрын
Love the old AWE32s i have a CT2760 and CT3990 :)
@gomenoni
3 жыл бұрын
Yo tengo una ct2760
@datasoftinc
5 жыл бұрын
I also have the 2670 Rev1. I've upgraded its memory to 32 mb but only 28 mb are usable. Unlike the late revisions of the card it has real Yamaha OPL3 sound and no hanging-note bug. Very nice card.
@techrev9999
4 жыл бұрын
This must have been what I had, mine was perfect and sounded great. I don't remember ever having an issue with hanging notes. Interesting. Wish I still had that card somewhere.
@mrvellu
5 жыл бұрын
i've got ibm aptiva 2144 with awe32 + gus max 2.1 -> killer combo!
@BjornThePiper
3 жыл бұрын
I have no idea how it's supposed to be pronounced, but I always pronounced "awe" to rhyme with "saw" instead of saying the letters. Even though I know I could be wrong, it really grates on me hearing Phil pronounce it "A-W-E", like hearing someone say "ATM machine" or "PIN number"!
@cee128d
5 жыл бұрын
I had an AWE 32 way back when. Mine did have the Yamaha OPL chip. I used it until I updated to a motherboard without ISA slots then switched to a SB Live PCI card. I also had an AWE64 bit I preferred the AWE32.
@jaysworld5378
Жыл бұрын
Still got mine. $300 in 1994 just for a sound card was really expensive but it was awesome.
@RJARRRPCGP
2 жыл бұрын
That long sound card, was a mid-1990s masterpiece!
@technodaz
3 жыл бұрын
I use VirtualMidi synth for Synthesia and playing piano so I have a grand piano soundfont ....its over7gb. Had to laugh at what they could do back then with so little.
@ArisRoutis
2 жыл бұрын
Still have the card with the waveblaster II too, no memory sticks, it is the CT 3900 version. Great memories from this card.
@philscomputerlab
2 жыл бұрын
Very nice! Yes it's a great card.
@jacobharvey2946
5 жыл бұрын
Love it. The AWE32 was the first computer component I bought myself with my allowance. Up until that point, I don't recall even opening up my parents' computer, let alone changing hardware (though I was young, I might have). But soon after I was the token computer repair guy of the family.
@dallesamllhals9161
Жыл бұрын
How it starts ;-)
@Code1D10T
5 жыл бұрын
Great review, Phil! I have my AWE32 installed in my windows 95 machine with an NEC385 daughterboard. I absolutely love this setup for windows 95 and dos gaming!
@plugpulled
3 жыл бұрын
I owned this during the good old Dos/Win95 days. Ahh the DOS games setup screen i used to max out the audio settings
@henryjohnson1071
5 жыл бұрын
I still use Creative sound cards in my PCs and even laptops to this day (USB SoundBlasters for the laptops). Much better sound quality, to my ears, when compared to onboard. Even though modern onboard audio on PCs in the last five years or so sounds good, I can hear a difference in quality.
@ajax700
5 жыл бұрын
Can you guys recommend a software to use creative soudnfonts with any soundcard? (Asked different as my previous question was not understood).
@arceffect1282
3 жыл бұрын
I'd love to be able to get the old AWE32 wave table ROM samples and load them into a modern plugin. There are plugins out there which can load SF2's etc, but I can't find any actual sound fonts that seem to sound quite like the old AWE32 wave table ROM sounds, they're often flawed or just not as good.
@arceffect1282
3 жыл бұрын
I had an AWE32 back in the day - the new-at-time wave table synthesis sounds were just mind blowing and a huge step up from the Soundblaster 16. I loved the string section which by itself was just amazing. I also had a Sound Galaxy wave table daughter board mounted on to the AWE32 header and was able to enjoy picking the best instruments from the two cards. I got some slight 'clicking' sounds using the daughter board on some instruments, but never had the hanging notes issue myself.
@visker81
2 жыл бұрын
the drivers sucked up alot of mem though, had to learn what hi mem and shadow ram were to free up enough for DOS gaming
@renerebe
5 жыл бұрын
I had one, wonder what we have done with it or if It is still in some box in the basement, I only took the more compact, later? Awe64 with me: kzitem.info/news/bejne/jpqg0YOLr6CDh5w - kzitem.info/news/bejne/yIWdsJyHnIdpin4
@CountDuckula07
2 жыл бұрын
I had one of these big boys in the first wintel PC my family purchased, then an awe64 later. I never thought the awe64 sounded as good even just for mp3 playback but maybe that was just in my head.
@unnv009
5 жыл бұрын
The AWE32?! Had one of those in 1995!!
@zoltangabordudas4393
3 жыл бұрын
#metoo :-D Altough i had the cheaper version the SB32. I got it for xmas ho-ho-ho!!!
@Fredjoe5
2 жыл бұрын
I remember the old "hanging notes" issue. Still a great card. Bought one around the launch time, I think, and it was still in use by 2003. Some of the midi tunes that came with it really showcased its capability.
@georgez8859
5 жыл бұрын
Complete with the box and all the Docs. very nice.A good card for it`s time. Thanks Phil.
@bakatoroi
5 жыл бұрын
My uncle had that card, we would play games on his 386. I was absolutely impressed with the sound at that time, I had no idea game music could sound so good unless it was CD Audio.
@techrev9999
4 жыл бұрын
I loved my Awe 32 back in the day. Best sound card I ever owned. After that, the differences started to be less dramatic.
@user78405
5 жыл бұрын
BACK 80' to 90'...competition started who has the best MIDI SYNTH....and they can cost up $200 bucks soundcards ever since...then CREATIVE TOOK ADVANTAGE THE MARKET...BY MIDI....THEN ALL SUDDEN...EARLY 2000...ITS ALL ABOUT DSOUND ...WHO CAN PLAY GAMES WITH BEST EAX....THEN CREATIVE TOOK ADVANTAGE AS WELL....LATE 2000....MICROSOFT PULLED THE PLUG TO DSOUND .....CREATIVE PANIC AND LOST HUGE SHARES DUE TO THAT.... HERE WE GO...NOW WE ARE IN MOTHERBOARD AND AUDIO RESAMPLE TERRITORY ...WHO CAN PLAYED BEST MP3 FILES OF VIRTUAL SURROUND ??? WELL....CREATIVE TOOK ADVANTAGE AGAIN..BUT ALSO EVERYONE ELSE IN MOTHERBOARD CHIP DID...DUE TO MICROSOFT DRIVERS CHANGES...UNFAIR TO CREATIVE
@euclideszoto997
Жыл бұрын
I have this card in my all isa Pentium pro build. I have to say it is the best all around soundblaster of them all. No static playing dvd movies unlike the SB awe64 and SB Gold. I own those too. Makes be wonder if Awe64 and SB Gold was overkill. They are good cards but the Awe32 just seems perfectly made.
@wskinnyodden
2 жыл бұрын
I miss programming in Turbo Pascal with a module player running in the background on the AWE32 MIDI processor basically and using it's ram as well, not only it barely touched the CPU the same was true for RAM. Multitasking in MS-DOS made possible via hardware acceleration hehe
@wskinnyodden
3 жыл бұрын
The real reason ISA sound cards perform better is that they have REAL PROCESSING Onboard like DSPs and such, unlike the majority of PCI cards that rely on the CPU/MMX for that, The limitations of the ISA BUS forced them to be by default accelerators (by recent definitions)
@Ray-rt3yh
3 жыл бұрын
I recently acquired a CT3990 and everything works except MPU-401 emulation fails to initialize in dos using Aweutil. Under windows in the awe control program the check box by mpu-401 emulation under the devices tab does not stay checked. I have the MFBEN jumper closed so it is set up how it should be. This only affects certain dos games, most notably Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis. Music and voice will not play at all. Other dos games like Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, and Tomb Raider sound effects and music play perfectly. If anyone has an idea on this one please let me know how I can initialize the mpu-401 emulation.
@wskinnyodden
2 жыл бұрын
AWE32 YEY, specially with the added RAM, many a good thing I've done with it thanks to that added RAM, the AWE64 on the other hand booooo booooooo custom proprietary RAM sucks hard! I had 8Mb on my AWE32 I had from an older PC at the time.
@eugenolschanski8840
4 жыл бұрын
Hello! I've got one of 3990s. This really interesting and good card, but I've got one incomprehensible trouble. I've installed my awe32 into my Compaq deskpro 466 and wanted to use for dos gaming as a universal solution. But it looks like I've got here a rare glitch or bug or something... Need to say, that i've installed drivers properly. System was set up properly too. But when I have started AWE32 music test from setup utility, only first secont sound runs correcly. Then it starts to sounds like a a bunch of notes - a cacaphony! I've tryed to change some settings, but nothing happens. In games happens the same... I've installed awe32 in other PCs and there are no such problems! Same card had worked perfectly! I must say, it deals only with awe32 MIDI function. No such problem with original SB16 FM sound occurs - it works perfectly. BUT! Any other sound devices on Compaq deskpro 466 works perfectly! I've tryed Roland dotherboard on SB16, external midi devices on MPU-401 and even Turtlebeach Tropez - no such glitch happens! Is anybody knows what happened? ) My best wishes to the author! Thank you for video!
@CybershamanX
3 жыл бұрын
I am SO SAD that I don't have my AWE32 and AWE64 Gold. I think I put them in machines that I gave to friends in years past. I had SO MUCH FUN with those cards. Specifically the MIDI output. I remember loading up the 4MB Sound Fonts that were found on the Ultima Online CD ROM and they made the game come alive. I had added memory to my 32 and even the Wave Blaster daughter board. Yes, I'm such an idiot for not holding on to it. These days I hold on to all of my old equipment. You never know what will become valuable in the future! ;)
@briangoldberg4439
3 жыл бұрын
I purchased one of these cards brand new at Egghead Software when it was released. I had a lot of fun with it, but it was super expensive. I think I paid something like $325 USD for it IIRC
@javiso85
2 жыл бұрын
Hi phil; I have a awe32 installed on windows 98, and when it play wav files like the windows start it sound very crisp, with noise of interferences like cracking. Do you know what is the problem? I have muted all the inputs to reduce interference. Thanks and congrats for your channel
@lunchie80
2 жыл бұрын
AWE32 (like being in AWE of something). Not A.W.E.32. Hurt my head hearing you say it each time 😂
@SleakaJ
3 жыл бұрын
I had an AWE32 in the first PC I bought for myself and basically used it as a glorified SB16. But it was cool.
@mattyllingworth
2 жыл бұрын
Looking for advice. I have a awe64 not gold. Can get it to emulate the mt32 but does not work on monkey island, kings quest iv and a few other games. It will emulate leisure suit Larry 6 well . But fighting with alot of games
@MarcSola7
3 жыл бұрын
This video has been featured on Sound Blaster's Facebook page, just in case you want to know where the surge of viewers come from.
@Tomboo
4 жыл бұрын
I will always keep this card! Bought by my dad, saved from trash by me. No box or manuals tho :/
@adilsongoliveira
2 жыл бұрын
I had one of those Sound Blaster AWE32 with the SIMM ram and everything else :)
@TeunisD
3 жыл бұрын
I held one in my hands once and wondered why it had these weird MB RAM slots on the board. I thought that was unlogical to do. Also, its way to big in size I think.
@directionlessstudios7210
5 жыл бұрын
Nice pickup and good video! Still hoping to score one when I pick up old 90’s boxes at the thrift shop... the well has become drier.
@Polarrunner_burr
2 жыл бұрын
I just have a sound blaster 16 isa ct2290 with an authentic opl3 chip.
@batmangovno
5 жыл бұрын
I'm in AWE at the absolute size of this unit!
@ZenecadE
2 жыл бұрын
I had one of these and along with the SB16's I had and have, the hanging note bug was a killer for me.
@TheDemocrab
5 жыл бұрын
Hah. I literally have an Soundblaster AWE64 Value and Creative model TNT2 sitting on my desk for a shadowbox project I want to do and despite the AWE64 being much smaller than this AWE32, it's still got a PCB that's 1cm taller and ~6-7cm longer than the TNT2. ...Meanwhile my Xonar DX from '09 is around the same size as a half height GT 1030.
@coryschneider4271
5 жыл бұрын
I'll be honest, I typically do not enjoy sound card reviews in general, but I did enjoy this one. Thanks!
@andywolan
5 жыл бұрын
Do you have an audio recording of the card producing FM audio? It would be interesting to hear how it sounds, and how it compares to the older boards with the Yamaha FM chip vs the Creative Labs FM chip.
@philscomputerlab
5 жыл бұрын
OPL3 vs CQM is well covered on KZitem, you can just run a search and should find good examples.
@penningtonlfc
2 жыл бұрын
i had the phoneblaster card was full lenth card.was biggest card ive seen lol
@batteryman2852
5 жыл бұрын
Someone should figure out how to tap into the digital audio on a MT-32 before its going into the DAC But also i do have a AWE32, but no computer to use it on.
@Stewcumber
5 жыл бұрын
I've got a CT3600 - AWE32 with upgradable RAM but not OPL. I've also got a CT3910 - AWE32 with real OPL but no upgradable RAM! I need to convince them to spontaneously merge. It would seem I underestimate what these cards can do; normally they're in a DOS 6.22 PC with your "easy MS-DOS" drivers and just use default everything...
@pentiummmx2294
Жыл бұрын
i just got a Sound Blaster 32, not AWE32. it is the CT3930, the non PnP one with a real OPL3 chip
@philscomputerlab
Жыл бұрын
Nice!
@PiercedJedi
5 жыл бұрын
never had any AWE soundcards, went from SB16 to SB Live! to SB Audigy to whatever is on my motherboard now cause they aren't as important anymore and SB cards are too expensive
@piecaruso97
5 жыл бұрын
get a cheap sound blaster audigy rx, it's basically an audigy 4 on pcie, but you also get all the old audigy features natively supported on windows 10
@ajax700
5 жыл бұрын
@@piecaruso97 Why give away money to a bad company as creative? Specially if you have a good enough integrated soundcard. "you also get all the old audigy features natively supported on windows 10" Ah... the old creative trick of propietary features. They constantly relied on tricks like that to keep uninformed customers captive. Why don't release drivers for new OSs like the rest of the hardware manufacturers do?
@TuNk1977
4 жыл бұрын
I found this card at the local 2nd hand shop, for just $4
@conorogorman1476
5 жыл бұрын
Expected more focus on the emu-8000. This put a professional music sampler in your PC for $100s not $1000s.
@ajax700
5 жыл бұрын
Forgiving to count you needed a full modern PC for that soundcard to work!
@HeatmanMKIII
5 жыл бұрын
Hey man!, i have a soundblaster live for windows 98. I need an older soundblaster to play oldergames?
@HeatmanMKIII
5 жыл бұрын
@@gundstaff I just care about FM synthesis and midi
@Treveliian
5 жыл бұрын
Love my CT3980 and CT3990, though i feel the versions with the better OPL chip are the better card.
@marcello4258
3 жыл бұрын
if planning to also play dos games ISA is your way to go
@Kawa-oneechan
5 жыл бұрын
I couldn't help but whistle along with the SQ5 demonstration.
@GameplayandTalk
5 жыл бұрын
Great review. I've used these cards for a long time and have always enjoyed their sound and high compatibility. I switched to an AWE64 in one of my machines but do plan on installing an AWE32 I have into another, so I appreciate you posting the drivers to your site, that will make life a lot easier for me.
@kaiser76
5 жыл бұрын
after a delusion with a early and bugged awe32 multicd with mssing pin on memory riser unable to see 2 mega of ram installed , i used a SB16 scsi2 asp real opl3 and wave blaster 2 lately change to roland sc55
@stefanocrespi5424
4 жыл бұрын
I am sorry I could give you only a thumb up.
@fristytron
4 жыл бұрын
A friend had it in '95 i guess. It was a sensation.
@explorer9049
5 жыл бұрын
I love these old sound cards with the ability to load soundfonts.
@dreammfyre
5 жыл бұрын
The issue with PNP has mostly to do with the compatibility for really old games. But for anything after like 1992, there's zero difference. The drivers also take up some conventional memory, which could be an issue.
@philscomputerlab
5 жыл бұрын
The drivers only initialise, no memory used. Only MIDI emulation in pure DOS, which doesn't work well, uses memory.
@tobiasstamenkovic9628
5 жыл бұрын
Terratec EWS 64 retrospect when? :p
@YoavRabinovich
3 жыл бұрын
Great !
@wishusknight3009
5 жыл бұрын
I have a slightly shorter version of this card which I have had for years and years. I actually use the amplified output to a set of Koss M/80 speakers and rout it through the speaker level hookups of a small powered sub, and find it sounds not too bad. I also found 8mb to be enough for what ever have wanted to load. Mine lacks the Wave table header and that extra processor ASP/CSP chip that no game ever used. But I think they are otherwise identical.
@EpicureMammon
4 жыл бұрын
I bought the original AWE-32 (or one of the earliest non-pnp models), a CD-ROM drive, and a copy of The 7th Guest. I still have the game and the sound card; it's got an SCD-15 on it (but the hanging notes make that a little annoying depending on the game) and it's sitting along side an SW60XG. I wish the latter had midi out so i could use that to drive my MT-32 instead of the AWE (again, hanging notes). I still love some of the AWE-32 voices. Good times :)
@techrev9999
4 жыл бұрын
I get the feeling that there was a lot of difference in the revisions of this card. Mine was amazing. I don't remember any of those problems at all.
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