Turtle Beach has announced that its Red, Nebula, and Pixel Green REACT-R Xbox Controller colorways are available today from www.turtlebeach.com and participating retailers across Asia, and are available for pre-order in the U.S., UK, and Europe ahead of their September 22, 2023, release in the UK and Europe and on October 1, 2023, in the U.S. for $39.99/€34.99/£29.99 MSRP. Previously available only in black and white/purple colors, these wired alternatives to Microsoft's first-party controllers feature two mappable quick-action buttons on the back, giving them some of the functionality that can be found in the Elite Wireless Controllers, as well as quick-access controls. Users will also find "Superhuman Hearing," a sound setting that is supposed to make it easier to hear footsteps and other details.
Again with Turtle Beach making controller-based stuff, and not anything like the sound cards I was used to from way back in the day. It's f*cking weird.
About 20 seconds worth of research can probably confirm or deny this, but it is more time than I am willing to spend on it, but I bet it's just a shell of its old self, and some unrelated company just bought the brand name and now sells controllers.
Apparently at one point they sold a product called the Turtle Beach Rio, which was a daughter board, designed for the Sound Blaster daughter board connector, which added wavetable midi synthesis to regular sound blaster cards. It even had a ram slot for expanding sample size.
Man, if I had known about this back in the day before my AWE32, I would probably have jumped on it.
Oh yea they partnered with Roland as well if I am remembering that correctly. for a long time it was TB, Roland or Creative Labs for a sound card. Most went creative labs and the others became so niche they died.
Oh yea they partnered with Roland as well if I am remembering that correctly. for a long time it was TB, Roland or Creative Labs for a sound card. Most went creative labs and the others became so niche they died.
Nforce? Was that what they were called? I don't think never owned one but I do recall that era.
I had an Abit KR7A-RAID back then. It was based on a VIA KT266A.
An enthusiast motherboard witjh an MSRP of $139 that actually sold below MSRP in retail... Different times. Now we live in price gouged $1000 MSRPenthusiast motherboards, that are scalped and sold above MSRP.
I used an nForce 2 for my Athlon XP "Barton" 3200+, and an nForce 4 something-or-other (I think "Ultra" is the word I am looking for) for my Opteron 165 (which was my first dual-core CPU and my first 64-bit CPU, and I overclocked the f*ck outta that thing with the insaaaaaane stock cooler). That was my first PCI-Express system if I recall correctly. I loved the ActiveArmor hardware firewall on that nForce 4. I think I built that in 2006. In 2003 or 2004 one of my friends paid waaaaaay too much money for an Alienware system. nForce 3 with AMD's first-gen 64-bit processors which introduced x86-64/AMD64. I think he had an Athlon FX-51. SATA-1 HDDs in RAID 0. I can not for the life of me recall the graphics card. But I experienced a lot of games for the first time on that machine, like Doom 3, HL2, F.E.A.R., and a few others. I recall nForce 3 not being the best, but otherwise AMD+nForce used to be such an awesome team. Too bad Intel + nForce wasn't really anything special. I did build an nForce 6 system using an Intel CPU (maybe an E6750?) for a friend's dad, and maybe one or two others for other friends. I remember something about Intel and nVidia having fights back then too. Don't recall the details. As the decades pile on, details on computer industry cat fights start to get real murky.
I think you are referring to nVidia SoundStorm? I never knew much about it, but was always curious. Wasn't that only for nForce 1?
I was a big fan of the Aureal Vortex 2 sound card, and that was the only card to get me away from Creative Labs for a while. I used the Vortex 2 in my P3 500MHz machine and my Athlon Tbird machine.
Apparently at one point they sold a product called the Turtle Beach Rio, which was a daughter board, designed for the Sound Blaster daughter board connector, which added wavetable midi synthesis to regular sound blaster cards. It even had a ram slot for expanding sample size.
Man, if I had known about this back in the day before my AWE32, I would probably have jumped on it.
One of these days I'm gonna go back through Turtle Beach's history, as you have done now. I remember my dad had a few of their cards, but which ones and why not even he can recall. Not even sure if we still have any 'em buried away somewhere. That was so long ago...
Ah yes, my brother, my father and I used quite a few generations of VIA chipsets. Certainly during my Athlon Tbird and Athlon XP days, probably well before. Don't remember the chipset in my P3 system or my dad's P3 system. My vague memory recalls SiS stuff thrown in the mix.
