luminescente

I received some spam^H^H^H^Hnewsletter from some portuguese computer store (no, I won’t link to them) and they had a very cheap Via C7 laptop. Upon looking at it’s stats, modest but still very capable machine, I saw this mentioned:

* Sound Blaster Pro compatible

And I wonder, this is some ridiculous claim to make today. Every sound card on the market, even this cheap onboard thingy can be compatible, in features, with a SBPro. How hard it is today to match a 8 bit stereo DAC/ADC at 22.05khz (44.1 in mono) with a OPL2 mono synthesizer? Listing it’s features would be enough. In this day and age as long as there are Windows drivers for it, it’s ok.

But just for kicks, I’d like them to say Gravis Ultrasound Max compatible…