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Creative Soundblaster AWE64

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... allows you to do various things with your card. Control of the card is done via a mixer that lives in the system tray, a kind of advanced volume control. This allows you turn on or off the various sources of sound (ie. the mic, line in etc) or add special effects to certain sounds. It doesn't offer a massive selection of options, but a bit of fiddling can help make things sound better! Compatibility wise the card words fine in Windows 95 onwards, although I am unsure of Windows 3.1 (but does anyone still use that?)....more

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Creative Soundblaster AWE64: In AWE? (879 words)
by rob_writer - written on 12/09/01 (Very useful, 1557 readings)
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I dunnow why I decided to review a soundcard; it's not as if they're particularly interesting, or that there's a great deal to say about them, but for some reason I thought I would, so I'll try and do my best. Looking on Dooyoo I noticed that this was the earliest Soundcard they actually have on, as now the Soundblaster 64 AWE has certainly been replaced with newer, better models. I've always had Creative Soundblaster cards in my PC's, right back from the day of the Soundblaster 8-bit card. Despite sounding poor now, at the time it was a good card! The Soundblaster 16 was for a long time the card of choice, and to be honest a Soundblaster ...

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