From: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN)
Subject: Re: GUS publicity .... NOT !
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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:48:46 GMT

In article <ddebry.724012254@itchy> ddebry@itchy.dsd.es.com (Dave DeBry) writes:
>From: ddebry@itchy.dsd.es.com (Dave DeBry)
>Subject: Re: GUS publicity .... NOT !
>Date: 10 Dec 92 18:30:54 GMT

>In <1992Dec10.110548.25553@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> ulmer@tardis.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Richard Ulmer) writes:
>>As far as avoiding the real issues no one is generaling stating that GUS
>>SB emulation is better that a real SB. In fact most of the complaints (other
>>than the OPTi problems) about the GUS are with SBOS and the SB emulation.

>        Excuse me, what?

>        Bzzzt.  Incorrect answer, please try again.

>        Have you not been reading any posts from GUS users correctly?
>Do you have any idea how many times people have said "Wow!  The GUS
>makes SB games sound better than the SB!"?  Just a few examples from
>the UltraSound Digest (just because I don't have the time to go
>through all the news articles):

>> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 11:50:36 -0500
>> From: "What the World needs now..." <dantonio@magick.tay2.dec.com>
>> I tried SBOS [..] and the sound was better, but still different
>> from the SoundBlaster.

>> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:47:40 GMT
>> From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
>> The GUS sounds great!  Orders of magnitudes better than what I've heard
>> from FM-based boards and MOD files.  The difference is very noticeable.

>        (Remember, SB is FM based!  -Ed.  :)

>> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 16:12:56 GMT
>> From: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN)
>> Leisure Suit Larry V
>>          Music and sound effects are excellent!!  Sometimes better than the
>>          SoundBlaster.  No slowdown.
>> HardBall III
>>         Music and sound effects are way excellent!!  Much better than the
>>         original SB.  Real stereo music.  Absolutely no slowdown.

>> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 92 13:00:50 EST
>> From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
>> The Ultrasound is definitely one of the best sounding cards out there.
>> About the only cards that sound better than it at the moment is the
>> Roland Sound Canvas and the Turtle Beach Multisound, and anything more
>> expensive than these two.

>> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 92 16:21:25 CST
>> From: ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach)
>> Then the sound works fine. Kind of a pain, but still better
>> than a Soundblaster! ;-)

>        That's enough of that, I've made my point.

	And I did a GUS demo in front of many people this week.  I used 
WOWII 1.30 to play MOD files on a 286 16MHz (just think, a 286!!).  I used a 
SB in another computer for comparisons.  GUS kicked SB.  Even with MOD 
files.  GUS was better than the SB.  Sure, SBPro is stereo with WOWII but 
wait 'till a MOD Play for GUS comes out (and it will soon according to 
different companies and programmers).  
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