Lee Jackson wrote in a message to Patrick McCullough:
-=> Quoting Patrick McCullough to Lee Jackson <=-
 PM> What, they're suddenly restricting the crap to the bundled cards!?
LJ> No, like I said, they're putting it on the motherboards as well. 
LJ> Smells really bad when an overheated P-II gets involved. 
 The phrase "do you want fries with that?" comes to mind.
 Wonder how long it'll be before they start including A/C units
 in with the CPUs.  So much for Crays having that market cornered.
 PM> Sometimes I long for the simplicity of a Sound Blaster 1.0 card...
 PM> but a friend still has my old 1.0 card in his Pentium and all it
 PM> takes is a small listen to send me running for cover.
LJ> Granted.  I got inundated with sound card stuff today - one company
LJ> sent me a card to test out, and another company sent two of their
LJ> reps (one of whose business cards showed his title as "product
LJ> evangelist").  I gave them something I've been wanting to give sound
LJ> card manufacturers for a loooong time - *feedback* on what
LJ> developers and players need.  Hope it worked.
 If anyone should be listened to, it's you.  The games you and Apogee
 have produced have *sold* a bunch of their cards, afterall.  Who needs
 a sound card for Windows?  Nobody, really.  But who needs one for
 Duke 3D?  Everybody.
 So if it hadn't been for the games with high-quality sounds, they might
 as well have been making toaster ovens.
 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.
 PM> Don't forget all those cheap, badly placed speakers too.  OK.  You've
 PM> got variable audio (or whatever) but the speakers sound like
 PM> leftovers from a dead Walkman, and forget stereo seperation.
LJ> Extremely true.  Back on the subject of sound cards, here's an
 I'm not sure this fancy sound trick is all that fancy afterall:
 you seem to have done some sort of similar thing with some of the SW
 effects: the gun turret in Zilla Construcion comes to mind.  It sounds
 different each time I fire it.   Nice. 
LJ> experiment for you - hook up an AWE32 to a pair of Event 20/20bas
LJ> monitors, or any other REALLY good set of speakers.  Then, play a
LJ> game that uses 8-bit sound (Doom, Duke, etc.).  Keep aspirin handy.
 Ow.  That would explain the need for cheap speakers. 
 My little Media Magic card is hooked into a Quantum guitar amp speaker
 (!) on one side and a modified Yamaha KS-A 635-A on the other side.  A
 total mis-match for audio purists... but it works well.
 If I get bored with the bass from these things, I have two giant 3' by 2'
 (yes, that's feet) sub woofers and the amps to drive them to hell and back.
 We normally use them for multimedia/movie events where you've got to fill
 thousands of square feet with bone-shaking bass, but they also work
 *great* with Duke3D in my living room.
 Can't say the neighbors like it much, though.  *laugh*
 PM> For what it's worth, that is NOT a problem with your games.   I had
 PM> fun using Kextract to yank out Lo Wang's er, guts last night.  Can't
 PM> wait for the retail version.   :)
 LJ> I'm honored.  Any particular VOCs you liked?  I'd be able to tell
 LJ> you which ones were mine and which were Jim Norwood's from the
 LJ> filenames. 
 OK.  Keep in mind I liked practically all the voice clips.  The
 reverb effect is really neat on Jg5049A -probably nothing too fancy
 there, but I like the sound. :)
 Other faves include Ninalrt, Cgalrt, Cgamb, Cgscrm, JG6053, JG3022,
 Ilike01 (my windows Exit noise: what better to use?), Jgen06 and
 the 40MM* grenade series.
 Riotfir1 is really cool; when the retail game comes out, I hope to
 take that effect and Explrg and modify them to make it more 'anime-like'
 and perhaps change CGwhack to sound like Kenshiro's "Hundred Punch"
 effect from Fist of the North Star.
 If you've seen it, you know what I mean.  *laugh*
 Now, if you's had Lo Wang say Kenshiro's famous lines, that would
 have been beyond cool.  "Tomorrow shall not suffer the likes of you,
 for today, you die."  And of course the wonderful "This grave is too
 small: I'll make sure you fit in."    ROFL!
 Speaking of laughing, Haha19 sounds suspiciously like a rather famous
 laugh from someone who'd probably get along great with Lo Wang....
 _What_ have you guys been watching anyway?
 Patrick
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