awe64

iBot · 2 Mar 2007 at 14:59

how was the awe64 (standard 1mb version) when it was released? was it the best consumer card?

I remember it once won an award (Recently) for the best isa card ever.

SexyGreyFox · 2 Mar 2007 at 16:56

Preceding that was the AWE32 which cost me £259 and it was awesome.
It had a soundchip that was taken from an EMU Proteus keyboard and basically sampling capabilities of an AKAI S1000 sampler.
I earned a hell of a lot of money with the AWE32 doing backing tracks for solo and duo singers.
A little later came the AWE64 and of course I had to have one. To be honest I didn't notice any difference over the AWE32 but it was supposed to be quieter etc.

Of course there were other soundblasters before the AWE32 but they were just FM cards. The AWE32 would forever change the way I would earn money, instead of a studio filled with racks of equipment my AWE32 did it all.

BFG_9000 · 4 Mar 2007 at 14:37

Great memories AWE32....

They were also longer than the 8800GTS cards, still no one had problems fitting them in there 1990's designed cases...... :cool:

iBot · 4 Mar 2007 at 15:08

BFG_9000 said:
Great memories AWE32....

They were also longer than the 8800GTS cards, still no one had problems fitting them in there 1990's designed cases......

jeebus, My awe64 was half the size of that

MeatLoaf · 4 Mar 2007 at 15:40

Yeah i had an awe 32. Even installed a couple of 1mb simms in the sockets, expensive at the time as well for a 1MB simm

SexyGreyFox · 4 Mar 2007 at 15:53

About 3 years after the AWE32 came out I was at Trentham Gardens Computer Fair and there was a bloke selling them for £3 each. I bought 4 and 2 of them worked.

Vegetarian · 5 Mar 2007 at 01:22

I had an Awe64 and it was good! Later got a SBlive which lasted me till I got a Tascam US120.

Flibster · 5 Mar 2007 at 19:33

Got an AWE64 Gold around somwhere. That rocked.

Simon/~Flibster

mejinks · 20 Oct 2007 at 13:20

The Awe 64 was the last time Creative made a good soundcard. I still have an AWE 64 Gold and really wished they had done one in PCI flavour. I would still be using it.

Hambut_Bulge · 29 Oct 2007 at 13:11

Another former AWE32 owner here, and I remember how much I missed it when I got the SB Live! because suddenly all those great old DOS based games (X-Wing, System Shock etc) that I still played at that time, now had to use the SB16 emulation drivers for the music. Just wasn't the same...

Kainz · 30 Oct 2007 at 13:28

Surprised the AWE64 won an award for the best isa soundcard because like most I believe it would have gone to the AWE32. I had the first gen full length one and remember shoving in a load of simms for 'turbo audio performance' as I told my mates anyway

What a card!

HeX · 30 Oct 2007 at 14:47

AWE64 was awesome superb cards.

fish99 · 30 Oct 2007 at 15:24

Awe64 was great in it's day. It was the first soundcard I owned that supported windows gaming as well as DOS.