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From: dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Sierra(Was: Re: Sound cards-sound blaster, adlib, roland..)
Message-ID: <5870041@pollux.svale.hp.com>
Date: 16 May 91 19:26:07 GMT
References: <1991May6.131225.27156@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Organization: HP Lovecraft Division
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>The major difference is, that the SOUNDBLASTER has stereo-sound,
>and the AD-LIB only mono-sound. You can play sampled sounds with the
>SOUNDBLASTER, too, which isnt possible with AD-LIB.
>The SOUNDBLASTER has a possibility to advance to MIDI.(about 140 DM)

This is not quite true. The original SB had Game Blaster emulation
as well as Adlib emulation. The GB sound was stereo but otherwise
inferior. The Adlib emulation on the SB is mono just like Adlib.
GB support is basically dead. The current SB no longer has the
GB emulation although you can buy add-on chips to put it in. But
they are virtually no games today that support the GB.

			   Danny Low
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