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Continuation
How did it start?
This question cannot be determined unequivocally. If we ask about "sound", do we mean the same-named Basic command, or - more possibly - what we understand as "good sound"?
In this case we probably have to start with the AdLib-card.
But in order to have clarity about why this card came on market anyway, we'll better start completely at the beginning: with the PC Speaker.
How we recorded
LAPC, AWE and GUS happily together
The data of the PC Speaker was passed over the detour of an AWE32 to the Live while both OPL-Playback as well as the MIDI-Playback of the AWE32 were sent digitally to the Live and were equalized after it (more on this trick on the AWE32 page).
The sampling ran with 44,1 Khz, which was conversed from 48 Khz (namely only with these the Live works internally) in favor of the better compressability for the Web.
Apart that, the human hearing is not able anyway of dissolving more than 20 Khz. Especially confirmed disco visitors should find their border clearly farther below...
The Roland SCC-1, that I don't possess unfortunately, was recorded by Eike Belgardt. Thanks for this!
The IBM feature Card - and the Tandy/PCJr - samples were kindly provided by Jim Leonard (Trixter/Oldskool.org). My particular thanks flies to him, because I exactly only could pronounce the word "computer" in contrast to him at the appearance date of the PCJr...
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Playback
The samples are offered in the formats OGG and MP3. Newer versions of Winamp (approximately 2.80+) are also in the position of playing OGG, otherwise the fitting plugin can be downloaded at the specified link below.
I recommend the playback in this format, since it sounds generally better - especially with strong compression - that we used here - in opposite to MP3, and is able to reproduce the actual sound essentially better.
MP3 serves solely as expedient here, especially since often with 22 Khz, if OGG cannot be used for some kind of reason.
And don't forget to activate the file format also in Winamp, otherwise playing it simply won't work ;).
A small hint when reading: the history of the sound cards is more or less written in one piece. Whoever would like to read it this way may jump over the samples and technical details.
A summary of the samples for direct comparison is moreover also on the last page, before the glossary.
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