Ensoniq Soundscape

[Kaufman Ng]

I'm a newbie in soundcards......can anyone help me in these questions?

- where can I find a FAQ on all the soundcard technologies
- anyone has experience in the Ensoniq Soundscape? How's it for games? on Win95?

Please reply to k...@cadence.com. Thanx!

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[Nigel Barker]

k...@cadence.com (Kaufman Ng) wrote:

>
>I'm a newbie in soundcards......can anyone help me in these questions?
>
>- where can I find a FAQ on all the soundcard technologies
>- anyone has experience in the Ensoniq Soundscape? How's it for games? on Win95?
>
>Please reply to k...@cadence.com. Thanx!

I think the Soundscape is a great card particularly if you are into MIDI
music. The sampled sounds are _the_ best on a soundcard IMHO. I guess that
it's what you should expect when a synthesiser company gets into
multimedia. I particularly like the fact that it has an on-board 68000 CPU
so has no TSRs & controls everything by s/w which is loaded at boot time.
They seem to update their drivers frequently (there are Win95 drivers now)
& have them available on an FTP site not just a BBS that is permanently
engaged. It does games fine, many of the newer ones (Under a killing moon,
Descent) have native support & it does the normal SB & SBPro emulation.

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Nigel Barker - ni...@openvms.demon.co.uk