did anybody else have a soundblaster 16

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GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

it came with a buncha software and one of the programs let you make the computer voice sing

what was that called

# ? Nov 4, 2014 17:16

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# ? May 16, 2024 09:57

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

there are too many posts in yospos now so i wouldn't even know what goddamn thread to ask this question in, so now you get a new thread

# ? Nov 4, 2014 17:16

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

nope i had a mac which didn't need a sound card :smug:

# ? Nov 4, 2014 17:16

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

wing commander academy, and that super racist ultima jungle game

# ? Nov 4, 2014 17:16

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

nope i had a mac which didn't need a sound card

followup question: how do i run macintalk in the year 2014

# ? Nov 4, 2014 17:17

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

Werthog 95 posted:

followup question: how do i run macintalk in the year 2014

orange you glad you bought a power macintosh? :haw:

# ? Nov 4, 2014 17:19

LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

i had soundblaster 16 Werthog back in the day. i had some pretty neat midi and recording software, and amazed some folks playing back stuff in slow motion and in reverse

# ? Nov 4, 2014 17:21

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

i did, op.

dr sbaitso was very cool

# ? Nov 4, 2014 17:22

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

pops bought a powermac 6100/60, OP

# ? Nov 4, 2014 17:22

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

lmao

# ? Nov 4, 2014 17:39

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

the answer i was looking for was creative text assist, apparently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN05jR_PxW0

# ? Nov 4, 2014 17:43

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Werthog 95 posted:

lmao

this is extremely my poo poo

# ? Nov 4, 2014 17:57

Phoenixan: Jan 16, 2010; Just Keep Cool-idge

i had a sound blaster 16, and i remember it coming with a midi rendition of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7x9UUMmuTw

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:00

newreply.php: Dec 24, 2009; Pillbug

i also had that soundcard. it was the one where you didnt have to do special stuff in games to get sound

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:07

Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:07

Phoenixan: Jan 16, 2010; Just Keep Cool-idge

newreply.php posted:

i also had that soundcard. it was the one where you didnt have to do special stuff in games to get sound

yeah it was p good

just run games and they work with sound

good card

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:10

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

newreply.php posted:

i also had that soundcard. it was the one where you didnt have to do special stuff in games to get sound

i had that too. it was called a mac. bye

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:11

pagancow: Jan 15, 2001; Video Stymie

Werthog 95 posted:

the answer i was looking for was creative text assist, apparently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN05jR_PxW0

p good poo poo

this is the official music for this thread now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIW4F285QjA

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:13

newreply.php: Dec 24, 2009; Pillbug

graph posted:

i had that too. it was called a mac. bye

sorry for your childhood ruined by 90s macs.

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:13

The Leck: Feb 27, 2001

Werthog 95 posted:

wing commander academy, and that super racist ultima jungle game

i definitely had teh super racist ultima jungle game. i'm fairly sure that our soundblaster came with a cd-rom and megarace, rebel assault, and some other garbage.

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:17

pagancow: Jan 15, 2001; Video Stymie

there were multiple CD-ROM/SB-16 bundles they shipped. Mine had Wing Commander 2 and Ultima 8

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:24

pagancow: Jan 15, 2001; Video Stymie

I Think I had another SB16/CD-ROM bundle with Monkey Island and LOOM as well

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:24

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

pagancow posted:

p good poo poo

this is the official music for this thread now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIW4F285QjA

wow. i'd have expected you, of all people, to post the correct version itt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqTyED5afqc

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:26

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

check out the sweet sound fonts I loaded onto my AWE32 onboard memory

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:27

pagancow: Jan 15, 2001; Video Stymie

are we going to argue over which is the most canon of canyon.mid?

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:31

Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

pagancow posted:

are we going to argue over which is the most canon of canyon.mid?

MT-32

there's no argument to be had

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:32

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

pagancow posted:

are we going to argue over which is the most canon of canyon.mid?

this is the official, moderator-approved soundblaster 16 megathread, the official song should be played on a soundblaster 16.

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:42

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

"did"?

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:43

Mr. Apollo: Nov 8, 2000

newreply.php posted:

sorry for your childhood ruined by 90s macs.

my dad bought us a IIsi :\

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:49

BangersInMyKnickers: Nov 3, 2004; I have a thing for courageous dongles

my soundblaster 16 came bundled with a 4x creative CD drive that you could plug headphones in to and it would run as a stand-alone cd player independent of the computer

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:50

BangersInMyKnickers: Nov 3, 2004; I have a thing for courageous dongles

sitting on my idiot butt, running the samples of the various midi synths in ff7 figuring out which one I liked best

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:51

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

some guy from 2003 posted:

CZroe posted:
Back in the day, some games used the PC speaker for sound effects and the CD-ROM for music. So if you wanted to listen to that music with headphones, you had no soundcard to plug into. Many of the first sound cards included IDE controllers built-in with a CD-ROM in a "Multimedia Bundle" and the CD-ROMs audio output was just piped out the back to the line-in on the sound card. Of course, only today we are finally phazing out the internal audio cable, but many DOS games will still need them if they don't work in XP. I have no idea why they kept the headphone jack around for so long. For a long time a "next track" button was commonly added next to the eject button so you could start and play a CD with limited functionality without software. Pushing "Play" on Win95's CD Player and setting the "continue playing on exit" option will continue to output CD audia for those without the button.

Speaking of which, at one time I had an older CD-ROM drive with the "next track" button that you speak of. It had been pulled from an old non-working AT formfactor system (the motherboard had died, but the PSU still worked), and I set it on the table all by itself, connected only to the lone AT PSU. I plugged in one connector from the PSU to the CD-ROM, and the power cord into the socket, and turned on the PSU by the little button on the switch cable. Thus, I was able to play a music CD in the CD-ROM without having said CD-ROM hooked up to a real computer at all. It was kind of cool, IMHO. Oh well, sorry for wasting your time with this stupid little anecdotal story.

huh. neato. i always wondered what that fuckin jack was for

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:54

Phoenixan: Jan 16, 2010; Just Keep Cool-idge

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

my soundblaster 16 came bundled with a 4x creative CD drive that you could plug headphones in to and it would run as a stand-alone cd player independent of the computer

same but a 2x drive

the only way to listen to my korn albums

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:56

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

my idiot butt

mods??

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:57

poty: Jun 21, 2008; 虹はどこで終わるのですか？あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?

Werthog 95 posted:

followup question: how do i run macintalk in the year 2014

"say" in the terminal

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:57

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

Werthog 95 posted:

huh. neato. i always wondered what that fuckin jack was for

i had a nerd roommate who did this for his car stereo

# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:59

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

i had an amiga

when about 2 months after getting it i realised there was an audio plug and plugged it into the monitor i was fuckin blown away

i was using trackers for making music ("music") while you fuckers were, well, something shittier i bet

:smug:

# ? Nov 4, 2014 19:11

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

my soundblaster 16 came bundled with a 4x creative CD drive that you could plug headphones in to and it would run as a stand-alone cd player independent of the computer

you had to use headphones because the 4x drive went vvvvVVVVVVVRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

mine came with a pretty loud pair of passive speakers that i still have around here somewhere

# ? Nov 4, 2014 19:12

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Phoenixan posted:

same but a 2x drive

the only way to listen to my korn albums

im the guy who listened to korn albums

:qq:

# ? Nov 4, 2014 19:12

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# ? May 16, 2024 09:57

Phoenixan: Jan 16, 2010; Just Keep Cool-idge

i was an angsty 13 year old at the time

# ? Nov 4, 2014 19:22

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