Sound Boards: AcerMagic

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Sound Boards

By Rod Smith (1997-12-26)

  1. General Comments
  2. Basic Technology
  3. Driver Installation
  4. VoiceType (Speech Recognition)
  5. MIDI File Playback
  6. Chipsets
  7. Specifics
  8. Purchase Recommendations
ACERMAGIC Assorted Products

Last update: 12/26/97

Phone:

800-445-6495

Fax:

??

BBS:

408-428-0140

e-mail:

??

web:

http://www.acer.com/aac/support/contacts.htm

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S20

Type:

FM synthesis (?)

Chipset:

OPTi 928, Crystal Semiconductor

CD-ROM:

??

Street price:

??

OS/2 Drivers:

Available

Drivers from:

OS/2 ftp: 929_v2.zip or opti928.zip

Comments:

This board uses the OPTi 928 and a Crystal Semiconductor chipsets. The most detailed information I have on this board indicates that it works mostly with either driver set, but some feature (VTD or CD Audio) fail to work with one driver or the other.

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AW32 Pro

Type:

FM synthesis (?)

Chipset:

Crystal Semiconductor 4236

CD-ROM:

??

Street price:

~$50

OS/2 Drivers:

Available

Drivers from:

OS/2 box, OS/2 ftp, Crystal Semiconductor's web site

Comments:

This is one of several boards based on the Crystal Semiconductor 4236 chipset. As such, it should work well under OS/2, including having full-duplex support and OS/2 sound when a Windows program is running when used with the latest drivers (but see the section on Crystal Semiconductor chipsets for details).

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AW35

Type:

Wavetable (?)

Chipset:

Crystal Semiconductor

CD-ROM:

??

Street price:

~$50

OS/2 Drivers:

Available

Drivers from:

OS/2 box, OS/2 ftp, Crystal Semiconductor's web site

Comments:

This is Acer's latest sound board. Like the AW32, it's based on one of the popular Crystal Semiconductor chipsets. I've not seen much about it under OS/2, however.