Sound comparison
One intro, four personalities.
These twenty-second excerpts start at the same point in our game-timed intro renders. Select a card, listen, then try another. No per-card loudness normalization is applied.
Sound Blaster FM
DOSBox OPL · dual mono
LAPC-I / CM-32L
Munt · CM-32L 1.02
Roland SCC-1A
Nuked Sound Canvas · SCC-1A 1.30
Roland SC-55
Nuked Sound Canvas · SC-55 1.21
The FM, LA and Sound Canvas resources have their own arrangements. SC-55 and SCC-1A use the same Sound Canvas score here, but their firmware and instruments differ. These are emulator outputs, not recordings of physical cards.
The clock mattered.
The game’s shared timer drives the sequencer at about 54.62 ticks per second. Following a resource’s requested clock in isolation made some early renders too slow. We now compare the actual original driver events and playback state before rendering audio.
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