Sound Card

Sound Card icon in Progressbar 98

This article is about the hardware component. For the program and the Progressbar95 music themes, see Media Player.

Sound cards are hardware components that provide audio for the computer. They add new music qualities to the media player, but they get useless soon after. The sound card you start with is a PC Speaker (you used to start with a MIDI card before the Media Player was added) and the best sound card that can be unlocked is the S Blast Cobsa (it used to be the S Blast Shriek 11D). In BarOS, the best sound card you can get as of BarOS 10.III is 64-bit surround.

All Progressbar sound cards but the first three are based on the Sound Blaster family of sound cards from Creative Technology Limited. The PbLib Y1238 sound card, in turn, is based on AdLib, and Cow-ox Thing is based on Covox Speech Thing, a LPT sound device. In BarOS, sound cards are described after the bits it holds and the quality of audio it provides (e.g. mono, stereo, surround).

Upgrade Progression

Progressbar

Sound Card	Points	Possible real-life equivalent	Notes
int	0		Starting sound card in 0.23 to 0.26
MIDI	0		Starting sound card in 0.28 to 0.5027 Removed in 0.5028
PC Speaker	0	PC speaker	Starting sound card Didn't exist in older versions
Cow-ox Thing	12500	Covox Speech Thing	Unlocks low quality MIDI theme Didn't exist in older versions
PbLib Y1238	26000	AdLib Music Synthesizer Card (YM3812 sound chip)	Unlocks high quality MIDI theme Didn't exist in older versions
S Blast I	35000	Sound Blaster 1.0, CT1310, CT1320A, CT1320B	Unlocks low quality main theme Called S Blaster 1 in 0.28 and S Blast 1 in 0.30 to 0.5027
S Blast	25000		Removed in newer versions Used to unlock the high quality main theme Called S Blaster in 0.28
S Blast PRO	40000	Sound Blaster Pro, CT1330	Unlocks high quality main theme (after completing a special game mode) Based on Sound Blaster Pro sound cards Called S Blaster PRO in 0.28
S Blast 16	35000	Sound Blaster 16	Removed in newer versions Called S Blaster 16 in 0.28
S Blast 32	60000	Sound Blaster 32	Called S Blaster 32 in 0.28
S Blast W64	60000	Sound Blaster AWE64	Called S Blaster W64 in 0.28
S Blast PCI128	45000	Sound Blaster PCI128 (Ensoniq AudioPCI-based cards)	Removed in newer versions Called S Blaster PCI128 in 0.28
S Blast ALIVE!	75000	Sound Blaster Live!	Based on Sound Blaster Live! sound cards Called S Blaster ALIVE! in 0.28
S Blast 512	90000	Sound Blaster PCI 512	Called S Blaster 512 in 0.28
S Blast Audiji	20000	Sound Blaster Audigy	Removed in newer versions Based on Sound Blaster Audigy sound cards Called S Blaster Audiji in 0.28
S Blast 2	70000	Sound Blaster Audigy 2
S Blast X	90000	Sound Blaster X-Fi	Called S Blaster X in 0.28
S Blast One	120000	Sound Blaster Omni Surround 5.1	Called S Blaster 1 in 0.28
S Blast Space	150000		Used to be the best sound card Called S Blaster Space in 0.28
S Blast 360	200000
S Blast Ω	250000
S Blast Jazz	300000	Sound Blaster JAM
S Blast ZZZ	60000	Sound Blaster Z-Series	Removed in newer versions
S Blast EA-5	300000	Sound BlasterX AE-5/Plus
S Blast EA-7	60000	Sound BlasterX AE-7
S Blast EA-9	60000	Sound BlasterX AE-9
S Blast Ululate	60000		Removed in newer versions
S Blast Osmosis	60000
S Blast Osmosis 2	200000
S Blast Osmosis 3	200000
S Blast Shout 9.1	200000		Used to be the best sound card after S Blast Space
S Blast Howl 11.1	260000		Removed in newer versions
S Blast Howl EX	200000
S Blast Howl EX 2	370000
S Blast Guffaw	200000
S Blast Guffaw Pro	390000		Removed in newer versions
S Blast Wave	200000
S Blast Ocarina	200000
S Blast Fluier	200000
S Blast Tsymbaly	200000
S Blast Lira	200000
S Blast Trembita	200000
S Blast Basolia	200000
S Blast Cimbalom	200000
S Blast Clamor 9D	400000		Removed in newer versions
S Blast Shriek 11D	500000		Removed in newer versions Used to be the best sound card after S Blast Shout 9.1
S Blast Cobsa	200000		The best sound card since 0.9507

BarOS

Sound Card	Points	Available on	Notes
16-bit mono	0	Bar System 1	Starting sound card Named "Chip" before 0.68, then as "8-bit mono" before 0.96
		Bar System 2
		Bar System 3
		Bar System 4
		Bar System 5
		Bar System 6
		BarOS 7
		BAR/X
		BarOS 8
32-bit stereo	700000	BarOS 9
		BarOS 10
		BarOS 10.II
64-bit surround	1500000	BarOS 10.III	The best sound card
		BarOS 11
		BarOS 12
		BarOS 13
		BarOS 14
		BarOS 15

8-BIT

Sound Card	Points	Available on	Notes
"Bulit-in speaker"	8192	Pyrus =	Does not have an actual function in the game

Trivia

• The reason why the starting sound card was "int" in 0.23 to 0.26 was probably because it was an integer value.^[verify]

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