Here's an archive of the CD-ROM with all the bundled drivers and software I showed: archive.org/details/samtek-rockn-98-3d-sound-card-cd-rom-v1.91 Haven't got the card installed in a PC at the moment so I can't do any direct recordings of that awful AdLib emulation, but yeah. I've really gotta do so in the future. It's too crap not to preserve 😂
A3D was super cool because they were doing HRTF stuff, so it was basically like primitive sound ray tracing. It was fixed position though, so you can't turn your head away, and focus is always at the center of the screen. There are a number of companies today doing some version of this that incorporates positional tracking, but only one of them (visisonics) is actually doing that plus surface coefficients and object obstruction and occlusion (for unique reflections). Of course, the tracking requires something like a VR headset or a sensor.
@@WildApple_OP-Plays Daniel meant that the file browser itself is from win 3.1, not the OS. Fun fact: that file browser still exists in win 10 if you know where to look
@@sus-mj9xz Looks like it doesn't "still exist in Windows 10", but rather Microsoft released the source code and a version that was recompiled to work within Windows 10.
That reminds me of the episode of the Simpsons where Homer buys a new TV. "If you like to watch your TV, and I mean really watch it, you want the Carnivale. It features two pronged wall plug, pre-molded hand grip wells, durable outer casing to prevent fall-apart."
I actually love it. It's as if D3D had a bonus 2D platformer throwback level and that's what they did to the theme for shits and giggles. @LGR Please rip that and post it I beg you.
These are the blebs I frickin love: the ones with the generic, cheap, undesirable pieces of hardware that I had growing up because we were broke AF. Thanks for the rush of nostalgia Clint.
If two clocks don't show the same time it means at least one of them is wrong. Synchronizing them is just the right thing to do. I just noticed my vintage alarm clocks (which are properly synchronized with each other) are running 20 seconds behind actual time. If I weren't so lazy I would investigate. I've actually been thinking about building an adapter to non-intrusively give these NTP functionality but naturally I haven't started actually doing it.
On my 34" ultrawide my brain kinda forgot I was watching a youtube video on a monitor for a while, just felt like I was a kid again at my grandparents' house. Really quite a strange/surreal experience.
@@EmergencyChannel Their headphones are pretty good compared to the competion in the same price range. I still have their EP-630 in-ears daily used from 2006 until 2013 and still use them today from time to time. No matter how good or bad their soundcards are, their drivers were always utter garbage. Glad the lack of hardware accelerated 3D Audio and the rise of onboard sound has pushed them into rather obsolete territories.
@@EmergencyChannel People still buy sound cards and they sound better than the on-board sound chip by miles. The bass isn't muffled and the treble actually sounds clear.
The fewer of those calls you answer the fewer you will get on the whole. I rarely ever get them anymore cause I never answer them. My father answers every one and he gets a bunch of calls every day!
I keep getting "Marilyn from the underwriting department" lately. Also text messages saying "Netflix is giving everyone a free subscription", "DMV has a message for you"... It's ridiculous.
I get the scam asking me if I still repair computers and if I take credit cards. I do, but I always answer back 'local calls only". That usually gets rid of them until a few months later when I get another one.
The bastitches are calling with local area codes now. I'm looking for a job locally so I answer at least one a day. The calls coming in from out of state are 95% caught by spam block and reported.
This is what I call the robocall hall of fame: That car warranty one "Your Windows subscription has expired" "You are being sued by [company that never calls people regarding lawsuits]" "You are behind on your [mortgage/loan/etc. but don't actually owe anything]" "Can you hear me okay?" (To trick you into saying yes so they can "confirm" that you bought hundreds of dollars of scratch tickets, etc., and that the credit card info they stole from you actually works) And any fishy phone call which consists of the other person speaking in text-to-speech.
That sound card box and installation art looks those "creative" corporate art trying to be "artsy" in the late 90's, reminds me of those cafés trying that aesthetic.
It's like a mixture of Frasurebane and Industrial Americana www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/frasurbane www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/csa-90s-industrial-americana
LGR reviews have the same effect on ebay sales as Musk's tweets on the stock market. I'm so glad I got myself an MT-32 for $40 weeks before Clint and the 8-Bit Guy first covered it. Sadly, Techmoan beat me to Roland MT-80/MT-300. I had to wait for 3 years before I found one in a good condition.
Someone probably purchased that cheap, unassuming card back in the days and thought it was his/her best investment in a while because it was actually good
So many years ago I needed a sound card and I remember getting a cheap card second hand, a turtle beach A3d card. As a 17 year old with the best sound card of all my friends, it was the first time I connected my pc to my stereo for awesome speakers
I swear the LGR laugh is just as entertaining as the LGR speaking voice. Whenever you're LoLing at the terrible Adlib emulation, I couldn't help but to laugh along with you.
What a neat little card, i love the generic branding, it looks like one of those fun surplus cards you get when a factory has extra parts leftover from a contract order or something.
There's a lot of cards that came to be as a result of surplus all-in-one sound chips from Yamaha and Aureal. They were especially popular with OEMs and markets outside of the US. This is one of the better looking ones!
You used to see cards like these at computer fairs for about £10 at the time Creative were selling cards like the Soundblaster Live for £100. Speaking of Yamaha I have a Toshiba Pentium 3 laptop with a Yamaha XG chip in it which sounds very nice. p.s. Whatever happened to Computer Fairs ? In the U.K. every City used to have one every month or two and in London they were more frequent. I don't think I have seen one locally for at least ten years.
@@MrDuncl Amazon and Internet shopping killed the computer show/fair -- better prices and delivered to your door, no dealing with sketchy vendors, and no admission fee... I used to go to the Peter Trapp show locally (they ran up & down the US East coast), but that was late 90's early 2000's at the latest. I actually found two vendor price lists from one the other day while looking for something else -- the one vendor was selling complete systems: Pentium systems from $1200 (P-100) to $1500 (P-200), Pentium MMX systems from $2400 to $2600, Pentium Pro systems for $2900, and a bargain AMD 586 or K5 system for just under $1000. The other vendor was selling parts -- Pentium motherboard for $110, the largest IDE hard drive is a 3.1GB Western Digital for $349, the best video card is a Diamond Stealth 3-D 3000 XL PCI 4MB VRAM for $320; a SoundBlaster AWE32 is $235, a 17" CTX CRT with .26 dot pitch is $575. Ah, the nostalgia...
@@AndrewAMartin I recall paying £115 for a P133 CPU on its own at a computer fair which is probably the most I have ever paid for a CPU. I also have fond memories of the "Computer Shopper Show" run by a popular UK magazine at the time. Held in the large Olympia exhibition hall they would drive trucks in there and be selling printers, monitors, etc of the back of the trucks at about a 25% discount to normal retail prices. At one I spotted a bargain and went to find a call box to phone a friend. "Hey Robert - They've got 4MByte SIMMs for only £80. Do you want me to get you one". At such a bargain price of course he did. I got one myself as well to upgrade my Apricot (Mitsubishi) 486 PC to 8MByte. That itself came second hand from the equivalent of a computer fair and ended up with many upgrades like extra RAM,, second 270MByte Hard Drive, Sound Card, CD-ROM, and to top it all a 14K4 Dial up Modem so I could explore the internet. Since then, local retailers, and national retailer PC World have come and gone. Technically PC World still exists but it just a section selling laptops in Curry's (electrical retailer), in-between the Washing Machine and Cellphone sections of the store.
@@MrDuncl I remember the Computer Shopper magazine - larger format than the typical magazine, thick like a phone book. 99% ads, 1% articles... The local shows were held in the Pennsylvania Farm Show & Exposition Center, a complex of halls and arenas used for the annual agricultural show it's named for, plus various livestock & horse shows, rodeos, dog shows, sporting events from arena football to motocross, car and boat shows, and so on. There was always the piquant aroma of manure in the place...
Honestly the Aureal had the best sound to this day in my opinion. I used to use it while playing Everquest with a 4.1 speaker system and it sounded so good!
We know you're there, Veronica. Yes, we're very impressed with your 15-year commitment to this "Clint" routine. But regardless, Veronica - It's subscription time.
As someone who's never actually played Duke Nukem 3D, I'm glad I can finally say with 100% confidence that that is some terrible adlib! I love how plunky it is!
Oh, seeing this I totally remember those A3D demo programs! I must have had a A3D capable sound card in my PC at the time without even really knowing what it was, because I remember the computer had these demos preinstalled. Good times! :)
If you're going to try and show off a sound card, rather than use the cheap, tinny monitor speakers, how about hooking up a decent set of speakers, like the Roland's!
midi is very strange thing from 80s. Many game developers cancelled this crapy sound and selected wav/mp3 songs or CD audio music. A3D is nice and easy technology of surround sound but nobody knows why there is still simple stereo nowdays. I remember cheap LPT sound cards (Covox) with awful midi.
Hearing that Duke Nukem theme is like when you try to play Streets of Rage 2 on one of those crummy AtGames Mega Drive clones. I die a little inside every time.
Guessing this was released during a no-man's land of sound cards, hoping people who bought it were new enough to the PC scene, that they wouldn't know the difference, if the OPL-3 was off.
One of the reasons why the Turtle Beach with aureal 1 and 2 chipsets is more expensive is precisely the hability to plug a wavetable daughter board in the waveblaster header and forget about the opl3 emulator.
Voyetra! That sparked some dusty memory engrams. Used to play around with that software bundle for ages as a kid on our win 98 home PC, had a similar sound card but I’m sure it didn’t have the “Rock’n 98” branding. Good times!
In the late 90s, there was a whole slew of cheap, generic soundblaster compatible sound cards for less than $20 all over the place. My first PC build had one of them in it. Worked fine, though. I was a newbie to this stuff back then so I wasn't very picky.
My text spams are about winning Amazon airpod giveaways that ive never entered and im always in different parts of the queue. They get my name right so some seller sold my info. Its wild.
that midi orchestator seems to be the same that came with my aztech soundcard!. it had three floppy disks named "voyetra blah blah". the aztech is a sound blaster pro 2 compatible/clone thing that also has a modem. it still is one of my favorite cards besides the creative sound blaster 16 isa.
I recently played through the campaign of StarLancer, which supports A3D in Windows 9x, in LAN Co-Op and because of that I used headphones instead of the 5.1 speaker system I usually use for gaming and I was surprised how well A3D HTRF works. The card I used is a Aureal3D Vortex2 SQ2500.
A shop I worked in when I was 17 used to buy these cards for aobut 10 dollars a pop in bulk in about 1999. They just came with a cd in a ESD bag but they were branded turtle beach and the board was cut differently. I might still have one somewhere in the basement.
I did hardware QA for Aureal back in 97-99. I have a bunch of 8830 test boards with all features enabled (including the quad-channel 3d daughtercard). Still one of the best sound cards I've ever used.
@@boardernut the 8820 and 8830 had hardware wavetable with the 8830 having extra ram set aside for custom wave packs. The 8810 (usually found on the software modem cards) had software wavetable emulation.
@@DM78 Great story, I still own a Turtle Beach Montego II, I remember shortly after I bought it, que Quadzilla version appeared, and also the Studio wich added even more features including wavetable addon, that same wavetable is being re-made by SERDA shop called Yucatan FX, nothing to do with Aureal, but back in the day that was a top of the line combo for sound.
Had a Diamond Monster Sound MX300 Aureal card. I loved it so much, I would even edit registry settings so I could use it in Windows2000 and XP. Good times, I wish I had kept it.
I have one of their cards in my tower, It's a 7.1 surround sound card, I bought it because my old motherboard didn't have surround sound built in and the internet said the card has studio quality sound when I looked up the specifications, my old motherboard broke so I got a new one and the new board has 7.1 surround sound built in so I don't need the sound card for that anymore but I kept it in my PC.
Here's an archive of the CD-ROM with all the bundled drivers and software I showed: archive.org/details/samtek-rockn-98-3d-sound-card-cd-rom-v1.91
Haven't got the card installed in a PC at the moment so I can't do any direct recordings of that awful AdLib emulation, but yeah.
I've really gotta do so in the future. It's too crap not to preserve 😂
Clint, not only you have a really good Duke voice, but a criminally contagious laugh. I was cracked up a good 15 minutes after this.
Aight
Damn, those alien bastards are gonna pay for s̶h̶o̶o̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶r̶i̶d̶e̶ ruining this game’s music
At least it still sounds better than Creative Vibra 128 / AudioPCI. lol
A3D was super cool because they were doing HRTF stuff, so it was basically like primitive sound ray tracing. It was fixed position though, so you can't turn your head away, and focus is always at the center of the screen. There are a number of companies today doing some version of this that incorporates positional tracking, but only one of them (visisonics) is actually doing that plus surface coefficients and object obstruction and occlusion (for unique reflections). Of course, the tracking requires something like a VR headset or a sensor.
The speed at which Clint can find canyon.mid in a win3.1 file manager interface is hilarious.
Win 3.1? Was this meant as sarcasm? 🤨
@@WildApple_OP-Plays Daniel meant that the file browser itself is from win 3.1, not the OS. Fun fact: that file browser still exists in win 10 if you know where to look
@@PiddeBas Where?
@@sus-mj9xz Looks like it doesn't "still exist in Windows 10", but rather Microsoft released the source code and a version that was recompiled to work within Windows 10.
My favorite feature listed on the back is "Auto Run Install". That is a hilariously low bar for an advertised feature.
Ha! Didn't even notice, that's fantastic.
That reminds me of the episode of the Simpsons where Homer buys a new TV. "If you like to watch your TV, and I mean really watch it, you want the Carnivale. It features two pronged wall plug, pre-molded hand grip wells, durable outer casing to prevent fall-apart."
I'm so tired of having to click the mouse button. Other installers expect me to do that *twice*!
"Purchasable!"
"Object!"
you know it's the 90s when the official installation splash uses comic sans
Hmm, were you even around back then? Me' bOi ;-P
I was - still with a Sound Blaster 16(from the family 486) in my '97 socket 7 build.
Well I was around and fully grown in the 1990s, and I can say that Comic Sans was indeed THE font 😁 Does its job, still makes me smile
My Sound Blaster Z still had the retro blue installation screen.
Duke Nukem "Let's rock!"
Sound card: *spouts random sounds instead of the actual music track*
It turned into an american-made Sega Genesis game.
@@Nukle0n Duke 3D confirmed to use the GEMS sound driver.
I actually love it.
It's as if D3D had a bonus 2D platformer throwback level and that's what they did to the theme for shits and giggles.
@LGR Please rip that and post it I beg you.
@@Nukle0n there was some that had decent sound especially later in the systems life
Turned it into Donk Nankum 😂
We need a full loop of that duke nukem theme to make derpy Duke memes.
Edit: Derp Nerp'em
These are the blebs I frickin love: the ones with the generic, cheap, undesirable pieces of hardware that I had growing up because we were broke AF. Thanks for the rush of nostalgia Clint.
This ^
bleb
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Yup!
Yeah, I have serious nostalgia for super generic sans serif fonts on cheap cardboard with no-name pc parts.
OMG, the sync on those clocks.
I'm genuinely glad someone noticed.
damn.
If two clocks don't show the same time it means at least one of them is wrong. Synchronizing them is just the right thing to do.
I just noticed my vintage alarm clocks (which are properly synchronized with each other) are running 20 seconds behind actual time. If I weren't so lazy I would investigate. I've actually been thinking about building an adapter to non-intrusively give these NTP functionality but naturally I haven't started actually doing it.
The Duke 3D theme sounds like what a KK Slider version from Animal Crossing would be like 😆
Your lighting with the incandescent alarm clock during the software demo is spot on. I feel like it's 1998 and I'm just chillin at a friend's house!
On my 34" ultrawide my brain kinda forgot I was watching a youtube video on a monitor for a while, just felt like I was a kid again at my grandparents' house.
Really quite a strange/surreal experience.
CANYON.MID always sounds like the intro to the news on some small TV station running on a shoestring somewtime in the 90's or early 00's.
Man those low-fi drums in Duke sound like someone was drumming with glass jars using cutlery as sticks. Awesome
6:20 omg the lamp alarm clock from the thrifting!
4:35 "What is your package?" Oddly personal question for a sound card manual.
Love the spam rant man! Been there, blocking them all the time but there’s always more.
It's like whack-a-mole
You block one and two more replace it !
R.I.P. Aureal Interactive. Killed in cold blood by Creative Labs' greed and law shenanigans.
I always wonder how Creative Lab is still around, I don't know anyone who has bought a sound card in the last 15 years.
@@EmergencyChannel Their headphones are pretty good compared to the competion in the same price range.
I still have their EP-630 in-ears daily used from 2006 until 2013 and still use them today from time to time.
No matter how good or bad their soundcards are, their drivers were always utter garbage. Glad the lack of hardware accelerated 3D Audio and the rise of onboard sound has pushed them into rather obsolete territories.
Creative went the lawsuit route. What a bunch of scumbags.
Not like it matters when Microsoft killed everybody. 3d Sound isn't even possible anymore.
@@EmergencyChannel People still buy sound cards and they sound better than the on-board sound chip by miles. The bass isn't muffled and the treble actually sounds clear.
LGR taking full advantage of that little alarm clock lamp. Looks perfect with that setup.
I always get the "We are calling about your extended vehicle warrenty"
The fewer of those calls you answer the fewer you will get on the whole. I rarely ever get them anymore cause I never answer them. My father answers every one and he gets a bunch of calls every day!
I keep getting "Marilyn from the underwriting department" lately. Also text messages saying "Netflix is giving everyone a free subscription", "DMV has a message for you"... It's ridiculous.
I get the scam asking me if I still repair computers and if I take credit cards. I do, but I always answer back 'local calls only". That usually gets rid of them until a few months later when I get another one.
The bastitches are calling with local area codes now. I'm looking for a job locally so I answer at least one a day. The calls coming in from out of state are 95% caught by spam block and reported.
This is what I call the robocall hall of fame:
That car warranty one
"Your Windows subscription has expired"
"You are being sued by [company that never calls people regarding lawsuits]"
"You are behind on your [mortgage/loan/etc. but don't actually owe anything]"
"Can you hear me okay?" (To trick you into saying yes so they can "confirm" that you bought hundreds of dollars of scratch tickets, etc., and that the credit card info they stole from you actually works)
And any fishy phone call which consists of the other person speaking in text-to-speech.
Got several good laughs from this one. I kept thinking, "Man, I hope he tests the OPL2/3 support and not just the A3D." You did not let me down. :D
That sound card box and installation art looks those "creative" corporate art trying to be "artsy" in the late 90's, reminds me of those cafés trying that aesthetic.
It's like a mixture of Frasurebane and Industrial Americana
www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/frasurbane
www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/csa-90s-industrial-americana
@@benanderson89 I was going to suggest a "global village coffeehouse" aesthetic, but does Frasurbane fit better.
Congratulations to everyone currently selling these on eBay!
I start to understand what "influencer" means. :)
The "Techmoan Effect" 😉
LGR reviews have the same effect on ebay sales as Musk's tweets on the stock market. I'm so glad I got myself an MT-32 for $40 weeks before Clint and the 8-Bit Guy first covered it. Sadly, Techmoan beat me to Roland MT-80/MT-300. I had to wait for 3 years before I found one in a good condition.
@@enilenis Duke Nukem > Elon Musk !!!
I never heard Duke being so depressed, poor Duke.
Someone probably purchased that cheap, unassuming card back in the days and thought it was his/her best investment in a while because it was actually good
No doubt, I'd have been REALLY happy with it back then.
So many years ago I needed a sound card and I remember getting a cheap card second hand, a turtle beach A3d card. As a 17 year old with the best sound card of all my friends, it was the first time I connected my pc to my stereo for awesome speakers
This is probably the first time I've ever seen a driver CD packed in a standard jewel case.
Everytime you see "Aureal", all I can think of is Ah! Real Monsters.
The real monster here was that Adlib emulation. Perhaps it was just misunderstood though?
I was going to say the same thing haha
aureal monsters
I used to work in a PC shop back in the mid 90's and remember installing these generic sound cards into computers.
I swear the LGR laugh is just as entertaining as the LGR speaking voice. Whenever you're LoLing at the terrible Adlib emulation, I couldn't help but to laugh along with you.
Man those tools they bundled in with sound cards back in the day where a lot of fun to tinker with, that brought back memories.
Here on Radio LGR. We're gonna rock it like it's 1998!
Fun fact: Aureal's legendary OPL emulation is done entirely in software, no idea how they got it to sound out of tune though :D
That is not surprising.
What a neat little card, i love the generic branding, it looks like one of those fun surplus cards you get when a factory has extra parts leftover from a contract order or something.
There's a lot of cards that came to be as a result of surplus all-in-one sound chips from Yamaha and Aureal. They were especially popular with OEMs and markets outside of the US. This is one of the better looking ones!
You used to see cards like these at computer fairs for about £10 at the time Creative were selling cards like the Soundblaster Live for £100. Speaking of Yamaha I have a Toshiba Pentium 3 laptop with a Yamaha XG chip in it which sounds very nice.
p.s. Whatever happened to Computer Fairs ? In the U.K. every City used to have one every month or two and in London they were more frequent. I don't think I have seen one locally for at least ten years.
@@MrDuncl Amazon and Internet shopping killed the computer show/fair -- better prices and delivered to your door, no dealing with sketchy vendors, and no admission fee... I used to go to the Peter Trapp show locally (they ran up & down the US East coast), but that was late 90's early 2000's at the latest. I actually found two vendor price lists from one the other day while looking for something else -- the one vendor was selling complete systems: Pentium systems from $1200 (P-100) to $1500 (P-200), Pentium MMX systems from $2400 to $2600, Pentium Pro systems for $2900, and a bargain AMD 586 or K5 system for just under $1000. The other vendor was selling parts -- Pentium motherboard for $110, the largest IDE hard drive is a 3.1GB Western Digital for $349, the best video card is a Diamond Stealth 3-D 3000 XL PCI 4MB VRAM for $320; a SoundBlaster AWE32 is $235, a 17" CTX CRT with .26 dot pitch is $575. Ah, the nostalgia...
@@AndrewAMartin I recall paying £115 for a P133 CPU on its own at a computer fair which is probably the most I have ever paid for a CPU. I also have fond memories of the "Computer Shopper Show" run by a popular UK magazine at the time. Held in the large Olympia exhibition hall they would drive trucks in there and be selling printers, monitors, etc of the back of the trucks at about a 25% discount to normal retail prices. At one I spotted a bargain and went to find a call box to phone a friend. "Hey Robert - They've got 4MByte SIMMs for only £80. Do you want me to get you one". At such a bargain price of course he did. I got one myself as well to upgrade my Apricot (Mitsubishi) 486 PC to 8MByte. That itself came second hand from the equivalent of a computer fair and ended up with many upgrades like extra RAM,, second 270MByte Hard Drive, Sound Card, CD-ROM, and to top it all a 14K4 Dial up Modem so I could explore the internet. Since then, local retailers, and national retailer PC World have come and gone. Technically PC World still exists but it just a section selling laptops in Curry's (electrical retailer), in-between the Washing Machine and Cellphone sections of the store.
@@MrDuncl I remember the Computer Shopper magazine - larger format than the typical magazine, thick like a phone book. 99% ads, 1% articles...
The local shows were held in the Pennsylvania Farm Show & Exposition Center, a complex of halls and arenas used for the annual agricultural show it's named for, plus various livestock & horse shows, rodeos, dog shows, sporting events from arena football to motocross, car and boat shows, and so on. There was always the piquant aroma of manure in the place...
I'll never forgive Creative Labs for what they did to Aureal.
Dude, same. So much.
I don't usually find the sound card videos super engaging but I'm so extremely glad I stuck this one out for that amazing duke soundtrack
ah yes, the windows log in sound at accidental max volume. good times...
at 2am when you were trying to sneak onto the PC without your parents knowing
@@onometre Been there!
My panicked whisper-cursing, Immediately cut off by shouts of *"Go to BED!"* from down the hall.
Honestly the Aureal had the best sound to this day in my opinion. I used to use it while playing Everquest with a 4.1 speaker system and it sounded so good!
We know you're there, Veronica.
Yes, we're very impressed with your 15-year commitment to this "Clint" routine.
But regardless, Veronica -
It's subscription time.
OH MY GOD. THIS TECH DEMO HAS BEEN HAUNTING MY DREAMS FOR YEARS. I COULD NEVER FIGURE OUT WHERE IT CAME FROM.
One of those must be the chess board with weird shit flying all over the place that introduced me to the fear of the void.
EDIT: It's Race Demo.
As someone who's never actually played Duke Nukem 3D, I'm glad I can finally say with 100% confidence that that is some terrible adlib! I love how plunky it is!
Youre glad you could finally say that?
With 100% confidence?
It's high time you did.
Oh, seeing this I totally remember those A3D demo programs! I must have had a A3D capable sound card in my PC at the time without even really knowing what it was, because I remember the computer had these demos preinstalled. Good times! :)
Hahaha I love how that clock is making it into like every episode now. It's like the Pixar lamps weird uncle or something.
If you're going to try and show off a sound card, rather than use the cheap, tinny monitor speakers, how about hooking up a decent set of speakers, like the Roland's!
midi is very strange thing from 80s. Many game developers cancelled this crapy sound and selected wav/mp3 songs or CD audio music. A3D is nice and easy technology of surround sound but nobody knows why there is still simple stereo nowdays. I remember cheap LPT sound cards (Covox) with awful midi.
Hearing that Duke Nukem theme is like when you try to play Streets of Rage 2 on one of those crummy AtGames Mega Drive clones.
I die a little inside every time.
THAT ADLIB LMAO
Samtek and Samtron is a Samsung child companies afaik. For cheap products
Guessing this was released during a no-man's land of sound cards, hoping people who bought it were new enough to the PC scene, that they wouldn't know the difference, if the OPL-3 was off.
Hats up with the dude lying down in the mountain in bees
No one caught the typo on the back of box....says fantasies in purple not features......I can't believe I'm just fooling and u looking for it. Go me
Bler with da bler da bler da bler diggy diggy
it's fit on bear a byte pc
3:30 the ant, LGR see the ant
I never have or never will quarantine. Come make me
I'll be lucky if I come across something like that on eBay.
21:34 ooh😂
Cliff's dying laughter during the FM Synth diarrhea is awesome lol
That is the most generic looking box I've ever seen!
21:32 when the theme starts playing and you just hear the weird "awww" mixed with "oooh" xD
How Jill of the Jungle would have sounded if you had dared to run it 🤪
The buzzin' bee sounds!!!
Yeah!!
One of the reasons why the Turtle Beach with aureal 1 and 2 chipsets is more expensive is precisely the hability to plug a wavetable daughter board in the waveblaster header and forget about the opl3 emulator.
the fm emulation of this sound like someone made a 8kbps mp3 of the real deal and someone else messed with it in audacity.
It doesn't have wavetable headers, I guess that's a bit of a bummer if you were hoping to pair it with something like a DreamBlaster X2GS.
aureal a3d are the first to implement hardware real time ray traced audio..
The Turtle Beach Montego that Is In my Pentium II system also uses a Aureal Vortex 8820 chip.
"fm synth diarrhea" =)))
I could not find anything on Samtek Corp using google...
Quake 3 used to support A3D, until ID removed it for what I assume are petty reasons.
I laughed so hard when you tested the adlib emulation. You should do "horrible sound card" videos
Voyetra! That sparked some dusty memory engrams. Used to play around with that software bundle for ages as a kid on our win 98 home PC, had a similar sound card but I’m sure it didn’t have the “Rock’n 98” branding. Good times!
Oh my god I completely forgot the A3D demos, we had the bee one on one of our computers when I was a kid.
*computer screams in agony* SLAAAASH!
fun fact: this card has windows 3.1 drivers.
Nice card, Veronica. Now, about that student loan...
Haha, I was just about to mention those rounded PCB corners - neat!
In the late 90s, there was a whole slew of cheap, generic soundblaster compatible sound cards for less than $20 all over the place. My first PC build had one of them in it. Worked fine, though. I was a newbie to this stuff back then so I wasn't very picky.
21:30 Talk about electronic farts :) hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣
Fry's sold those for $20 bucks and I still have a new one in the box I picked up about 15 years ago.
And now we have integrated 7.1 192000000000000hz
BEES?!
General Kenobi!
I hope the little bug at 3:20 is having a good day.
My text spams are about winning Amazon airpod giveaways that ive never entered and im always in different parts of the queue. They get my name right so some seller sold my info. Its wild.
I imagine Duke walking with the "chad" walk cycle from the meme to that goofed up Grabbag.
LGR at 0:49 - looks at back of box titled 'Let Your Computer Do The Reading'
LGR at 1:55 - "I've never met this man in my life!"
5:50 General Basinger.
@17:10 "Oh no, I broke it!" needs to be downloadable .wav for use as a custom error alerts
that midi orchestator seems to be the same that came with my aztech soundcard!. it had three floppy disks named "voyetra blah blah". the aztech is a sound blaster pro 2 compatible/clone thing that also has a modem.
it still is one of my favorite cards besides the creative sound blaster 16 isa.
22:00: Joaquin Phoenix's Joker, is that you?
"Slash" made me choke on my food.
I recently played through the campaign of StarLancer, which supports A3D in Windows 9x, in LAN Co-Op and because of that I used headphones instead of the 5.1 speaker system I usually use for gaming and I was surprised how well A3D HTRF works. The card I used is a Aureal3D Vortex2 SQ2500.
A shop I worked in when I was 17 used to buy these cards for aobut 10 dollars a pop in bulk in about 1999. They just came with a cd in a ESD bag but they were branded turtle beach and the board was cut differently. I might still have one somewhere in the basement.
"You should hear the Duke Nukem Theme Song" - Nope, that abomination surely isn't the Duke Nukem Theme Song.
It's Duki Nuki theme
That's the Chinese bootleg version, Jarl Peacem
I did hardware QA for Aureal back in 97-99. I have a bunch of 8830 test boards with all features enabled (including the quad-channel 3d daughtercard). Still one of the best sound cards I've ever used.
Cool, do you know if the wavetable synth is really implemented on hardware on the chipset or if it just pure software using directsound
@@boardernut the 8820 and 8830 had hardware wavetable with the 8830 having extra ram set aside for custom wave packs. The 8810 (usually found on the software modem cards) had software wavetable emulation.
@@DM78 Great story, I still own a Turtle Beach Montego II, I remember shortly after I bought it, que Quadzilla version appeared, and also the Studio wich added even more features including wavetable addon, that same wavetable is being re-made by SERDA shop called Yucatan FX, nothing to do with Aureal, but back in the day that was a top of the line combo for sound.
5:30 I've been opening CD packaging wrong my entire life.
Happy 25th Anniversary, Duke! 🥳
I get like 5 spam messages a day. I agree Clint. It's really annoying.
Had a Diamond Monster Sound MX300 Aureal card. I loved it so much, I would even edit registry settings so I could use it in Windows2000 and XP. Good times, I wish I had kept it.
I have one of their cards in my tower, It's a 7.1 surround sound card, I bought it because my old motherboard didn't have surround sound built in and the internet said the card has studio quality sound when I looked up the specifications, my old motherboard broke so I got a new one and the new board has 7.1 surround sound built in so I don't need the sound card for that anymore but I kept it in my PC.
The box just screams bottom shelf or bargain bin at a mom and pop computer store when they existed back in the day. Love it!