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In article <81705@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tom Sorensen) writes:
> Some good info about the WaveBlaster-
> 
> Creative Labs has engineered it such that the WB will be able to run most
> games w/ Roland sound! You have to run a small program that tells the WB
> to load the Roland sounds (its not a TSR). The only caveat is that it doesn't
> support custom patches- this affects many Sierra games and a few others. Still,
> this means that the WB will come onto the market with a *HUGE* installed base
> of games it can exploit.
> 
> Since EMU is now owned by CL it is likely that the WB will make it to the
> retail market. Most estimates for combined SB+WB cost are around $330. High,
> but significantly less than a Roland or Multisound. Plus you get support
> for all games that use the SB.
> 
> Bad news- apparently someone made the bad choice of using rounding on the SB16
> w/ 8 bit samples. If you play an 8-bit sample on a SB-16 you may not get as
> clear of a sound as you should, since some bits will be rounded incorrectly
> (a 0 comes out as a 1). Hopefully CL will fire the engineer/manager in question
> and fix it in a later version of the board.
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What about those people that already have defective boards. Will CL refund there
money or offer a free fix. Will CL have a recall on the boards(which they should).

Another question. Didn't these designers listen to the board BEFORE manufacturing
it? If you try any current game you'll get 8-bit samples. I would figure that
this would be one of the first tests preformed, not something the customers finds
out. I wonder what kind of surprises the first WB customers will get.


>           Tom Sorensen
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> Tom Sorensen              gt0040a@prism.gatech.edu
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