Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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One of the three waveblasters I bought from Serdaco (serdashop.com) was their interesting E-Wave board. This is an ESS AudioDrive ES692S wavetable chip on a Waveblaster-compatible daughterboard. It has 1MB of sample ROM and 32-voice polyphony, making it a great alternative to an AWE32.

Buy it at Serdaco: serdashop.com/EWave (not sponsored)

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction
00:29 - Descent
02:01 - Duke Nukem 3D
03:10 - Doom E1M1 & End Of Level
05:03 - Hexen
06:48 - Warcraft II
08:58 - Rise of the Triad
12:14 - Sim City 2000
15:21 - Heretic E2M1
16:40 - Heroes of Might and Magic II
19:41 - Star Wars: Dark Forces
22:53 - 55sonice01.mid - "(You're) So Nice" by Brother-Nao
27:42 - Flourish.mid (DirectX Test MIDI)
29:15 - Canyon.mid

System Specifications:
CPU: Cyrix MediaGXm 266MHz w/ MMX
Motherboard: ECS P5GX-M Cyrix CX5530
RAM: 32MB PC100 SDRAM
VGA: STB/3dfx Voodoo3 2000 PCI 16MB
Sound: Sound Blaster 16 (CT2740) with Serdaco E-Wave waveblaster