Lee Jackson wrote in a message to Roger Fingas:
-=> Quoting Roger Fingas to Lee Jackson <=-
 LJ> I wonder if Joe Blow with his ESS clone....
 RF> Do most people have ESS clones?  The people I know only own
 RF> Sound Blasters.
LJ> A lot of the systems sold over the counter have clone sound - Yamaha
LJ> OPL3SA in Toshiba's stuff, Crystal in IBM's stuff, ESS in others,
LJ> with the odd Creative Labs Vibra or equivalent in others.  The idea
LJ> I was trying to get across is that most sound devices sold with
LJ> today's bundled systems are, more or less, crap.
 What, they're suddenly restricting the crap to the bundled cards!?
 *laugh*
 Sometimes I long for the simplicity of a Sound Blaster 1.0 card...
 but a friend still has my old 1.0 card in his Pentium and all it
 takes is a small listen to send me running for cover.
 RF> They certainly should!  The sounds in most games are rather
 RF> linear, i.e., fire a gun into a wall, the sounds will always be the
 RF> same.  In Trespasser, the sounds for the same event will change
 RF> constantly.
 LJ> Yes, but will the change be so subtle that you won't be able to tell
 LJ> that a change has happened?  Again, we'll see.
 Don't forget all those cheap, badly placed speakers too.  OK.  You've
 got variable audio (or whatever) but the speakers sound like leftovers
 from a dead Walkman, and forget stereo seperation.
 Hmmm..... did that bullet hit on the left or the right -oh wait!  That
 wasn't a bullet!  It's somebody speaking!
 ROFL!
 For what it's worth, that is NOT a problem with your games.   I had
 fun using Kextract to yank out Lo Wang's er, guts last night.  Can't
 wait for the retail version.   :)
 Patrick
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