I mean, the music wasn't 'redone' for the Roland. Back in 90s, if you had a Roland SoundCanvas in your PC, DOOM, Duke Nuk'em, Descent (I say Descent because that also had a fantastic soundtrack), etc would sound like the videos above "out-of-the-box". If all one ever had was a SB16 you just assumed that's how the music sounded. But, no, it was due to the limitation of the hardware.
Was it Turtle Bay that was the bee's knees as far as sound cards back then? It's been a while but I want to say that something I remember if you were picking out a sound card.
Ahh shit, yeah I guess I probably had sound blaster in most of my older computers. I just forgot that sound cards were a thing when you were building something, but then everything went on board, and the only thing you might run would be an audio processor or external rack if you were doing any sort of music stuff. Pretty crazy how things have evolved since those old days.
US Robotics. I remember coming home from college fiending for the T3 connection we had there. I ended up getting a of their 56k modems, though It was rare when I got even half that speed due to the shitty copper in the house.
That's what it was!
Also got one of the first DSL lines too, I forgot the bandwidth, but company expensed that too and I remember it being ~$330/mo at the time. But man, that ping advantage...
I’m the opposite. I don’t see the allure of a PVP shooter. I only prefer PVE campaigns and won’t buy a game unless it has one (exception being Helldivers II).
You do realize 2016 was almost a decade ago, right?
This. Had a SB 64 Awe Pro (was also doing music comp on my PC) and had a pair of 3dfs cards SLA'd with passthrough from the old Matrox Millenium 2 card for standard graphics. So much work to get it all to play nice. I used to hand build all my PCs but I don't think I have touched that shit in over a decade and a half now.Had the best set up back then. 486DX2-66. Soundblaster Pro (A220, IRQ5 lol)
Running memmaker to get every bit of conventional ram out that you could - usually topping around 629-631k
We also had a USR HST/V.32/V.32bis dual standard but yeah copper in older homes sucked so you usually saw 14.4k18800 if you were lucky.
Man those were the days.
"How come Falcon 3.0 looks so much better from a HUD persepctive on your PC"?"
I have the math coprocessor bitch!
Sure, but these games get graphics and textures update. It looks like the most recent update was 2018. However, graphic-wise it seems to look better than Doom Eternal. Games have pretty much remained stagnant when it comes to graphical fidelity improvement. 1985 to 1995, to 2005, to 2015 all saw massive jumps in graphics. However, graphics and textures from 2015 to today remain marginally better.
i think most everyone grewup w/ a sb16 b/c the cdrom 2x connected to the soundcard, cuz they were tethered, i forgot why, it was just a regular 40pin ide cable, maybe mb's only came w/ one ide back then
