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SOUND BLASTER

Specialty Definition: SOUND BLASTER

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Computing

Sound Blaster The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs. [Features? Models? Reference?] (1998-04-28). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Sound Blaster

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Sound Blaster is a de facto standard for sound cards on the IBM PC system platform. The creator of Sound Blaster is the Singapore-based firm Creative Labs. In the beginning, the Sound Blaster was built entirely around the Yamaha OPL2 sound chip from Yamaha Corporation.

Evolution of Sound Blaster Soundcards

The first Sound Blaster and the sequel Sound Blaster Pro featured FM synthesis using the Yamaha YM3812 compatibility mode of the OPL2. In addition the OPL2 could also play back sampled sound.

Sound Blaster Live! was the first Sound Blaster sound card to feature wavetable synthesis.

See also: sound card AdLib

External Links

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sound Blaster."

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Crosswords: SOUND BLASTER

Specialty definitions using "SOUND BLASTER": sound cardwavetable. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SOUND BLASTER

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Books

  

High Tech

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SOUND BLASTER

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Anagrams: SOUND BLASTER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-l-n-o-r-s-s-t-u"

-1 letter: roundtables.

-2 letters: adsorbents, baudronses, outlanders, roundtable, slanderous, subalterns.

-3 letters: absoluter, absolutes, absurdest, adsorbent, adultness, anestrous, balusters, banderols, boundless, breadnuts, broadness, burstones, dauntless, doubtless, eastbound, laundress, lodestars, outlander, outlearns, roundlets, saboteurs, sodbuster, solanders, soundable, storables, subaltern, subtrends, transudes, turnsoles, underboss, unloaders, unsolders, unstabler.

-4 letters: abluents, absolute, abstruse, aleurons, anestrus, anserous, arsenous, assentor, assorted, astounds, baldness.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-l-n-o-r-s-s-t-u"
 

+5 letters: disequilibrations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SOUND BLASTER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4F 55 4E 44      42 4C 41 53 54 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001111 01010101 01001110 01000100 00100000 01000010 01001100 01000001 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#79 &#85 &#78 &#68 &#32 &#66 &#76 &#65 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004F 0055 004E 0044      0042 004C 0041 0053 0054 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5349554838236463553543952

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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