"In 1994 the state-of-the-art SoundBlaster would have been the AWE32 and it was $399."
Now I remember why I was never able to save any money in my late teens...
Mmm. I guess my memory is bad. I really thought the GUS came before the SoundBlaster, but maybe I didn't have a GUS Max but a GUS.
Re:A Sound Card Before Its Time
by raverbashing on Friday August 17, 2018 @08:02AM
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I don't remember when the AWE32 came out, but I had gotten one in 96
Too bad it died after a couple of years, seems to be a design flaw
In 1994 the state-of-the-art SoundBlaster would have been the AWE32 and it was $399. You must be misremembering :)
Sound cards did not drop to anywhere near $20 until the very late 90's or early 00's and those $20 cards were bottom barrel stuff that would have been less advanced in many ways than the GUS Max even then.