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From: a864@mindlink.UUCP (Jono Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: $$$ EXCLUSIVE GAME CLUB $$$ -- Indy 500
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Date: 16 Nov 90 14:35:14 GMT
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In article:<1990Nov17.025737.20558@d.cs.okstate.edu>, Ong Eng Teng writes:

> Did you have any appropriate sound card when trying out LHX?  (Yes, it
> sounds horrible thru the PC speaker).  If not, go get a sound card
> before you start huffing and puffing again.

Huffing and puffing?  What the hell are you talking about?  I was mearly
making some observations.  And yes, I did have an "appropriate" sound
card when trying the game.

> I don't recall Battle of Britain using the sound card.  I spent many
> many days and over five hundred dollars this summer on games alone, I
> have yet to find any game with the sound effect (thru 80 watts of hi-fi
> speakers, that is) that comes anywhere near LHX and Indy500.

Battle of Britain does indeed use the sound card... Indy 500 is quite
good on graphics and sound effects too.  I dunno.. just wasn't impressed
with LHX at all.

> Wing Commander itself might be another story.  Does it use any sound
> card (Sound Blaster or Adlib).  I saw some of its ad and admittedly was
> tempted to buy.  I might, if you say that it uses sound card.

WC uses a sound card (read the ad).  It is an excellent game.

> What's this hang-up about sound card?

What hang-up about sound cards?

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