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From: tarquin@athena.mit.edu (Robert P Poole)
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Subject: Re: Soundblaster Summary
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Date: 19 Feb 91 22:46:14 GMT
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Regarding the "clone card" available from Radio Shack for $69:  this is
actually a genuine product of Creative Labs / Creative Music Systems.  It is
called the Game Blaster, and it is really the "little brother" of the
Soundblaster.  The Soundblaster basically incorporates all the hardware of the
GameBlaster, and then includes FM hardware to emulate the AdLib card.  In this
way, people who own the Soundblaster card effectively have a way of running
software for three different kinds of sound card.  However, the folks who
created the FM sound driver for Win 3.0 might want to consider putting in
support for the Soundblaster in CMS mode, so this way those of us with our
measly GameBlaster cards can have some hope of using the program.  I believe
the creators of the program mentioned this as a future enhancement to the
software, and I just wanted to say that this is a really GOOD idea.

My $0.02.
Rob

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