ESS AudioDrive SPU

Hardware entity

Supports or requires an ESS AudioDrive sound processing unit.

games

platform

Albion

DOS 1995

Advanced Civilization

DOS 1995

ESS was good at speech synthesis. The made hardware and software that was very good at it. The also made IBM-PC sound cards with their own sound chips that produced higher quality FM synthesis than OPL3 cards and were also compatible with OPL3 cards.

Popular tags

spu-adlib spu-adlibgold spu-ensoniqsoundscape spu-gm spu-gus spu-mt32 spu-pas spu-pcspeaker spu-rap10 spu-sb spu-sb16 spu-sbpro spu-tandy spu-wavejammer

Parent group

Sound Processing Units

Games by year

The first ESS AudioDrive SPU video game was released in 1995.

Platforms

MS-DOS		2