Re: Adlib Gold clone - 2THEMAX SoundMedia Multimedia Board?

Posted on 2020-04-05, 22:28

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Another thing I recommend trying is a MOD player. This one supports the Ad Lib Gold, so might work. I was surprised at the difference in quality, when compared to a Sound Blaster Pro, even at 22050 Hz playback rate. The YMZ263 also supports stereo playback at 44100 Hz. There are a few things to know …

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Re: Adlib Gold clone - 2THEMAX SoundMedia Multimedia Board?

Posted on 2020-04-04, 06:31

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With that higher-resolution picture of the board, and the manual, this thing is looking like a bit of a Frankenstein GSS card. It appears to have a mixer, and it would appear that it is controlled by the on-board micro-controller. Unlike most GSS cards, that usually either have no mixer and no …

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Re: Adlib Gold clone - 2THEMAX SoundMedia Multimedia Board?

Posted on 2020-04-03, 20:52

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As we can see in the top right-hand corner of the box, it may be a Gold Sound Standard-compliant card, but I would stop short of calling it a "clone" of the Ad Lib Gold. Just from those low-resolution pictures, there are some differences that stand out immediately. Cardinal (and probably others) …

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Re: MOD4WIN with GF1 based Gravis Ultrasound Classic under Win98?

Posted on 2020-04-03, 20:33

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There are two "last beta" releases of 2.40; one without hardware mixing support, and one with hardware mixing support. Again, please double-check that you have downloaded the correct version from here (same page Lennart linked above). For native GUS/InterWave support, you will want the version that …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2020-03-28, 15:36

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Do you consider me a shameless person? Well, let's think about that for a minute. In the 18+ years since the InterWave was discontinued, nobody undertook this effort before shock__. If it was such a simple, obvious thing that anyone could do, why not? Why did you have to use his schematics? Why was …

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Re: OPL3-compatibles

Posted on 2020-03-28, 02:30

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I've heard enough of Crystal FM to know that it can be passable , if you're not familiar with anything else, and don't already know what something should sound like. I don't consider it useful in many other cases, and I can only imagine that CQM sounds worse, and is even less compatible. One …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2020-03-28, 02:20

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I thought the RC-1 boards had not shipped yet. The RC-1 boards haven't shipped yet, and the effort is on hold, since shock__ has run into a series of recent personal difficulties. The board in question is "based on" the released ARGUS schematics, but is not by shock__, nor anyone previously …

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OPL3-compatibles

Posted on 2020-03-24, 19:30

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After recent experience with Crystal FM, I have come to wonder: just how compatible are these allegedly OPL3-compatible designs? Aside from sounding rather different in many cases, Crystal FM seems not to support the OPL3 percussion mode. Are there different implementations of Crystal FM? Is there a …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-03-19, 04:02

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If you have any interest in comparing the recordings above without bias, then don't read any more of this text (and maybe not the rest of the thread yet, either). With that warning out of the way, it should be safe to reveal the secret: Spoiler Two out of the three recordings came from the Orpheus …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-03-14, 05:25

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While putting the current-generation prototype through its paces, I thought a few more recordings might be in order. As I've done before, there are three of them. If you'd care to share an opinion and/or guess, these are the things I'd be interested in: Are you noticing any differences? What do you …

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Re: Gravis Ultrasound PnP in 486 DX2 66

Posted on 2020-03-04, 18:37

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It is worth pointing out that a configuration manager (like the Intel utility) is generally not required to use an InterWave-based board. It is needed on systems without a Plug and Play ISA BIOS to run the Gravis installation and set-up tools, as well as for PNPMAP, but that's about it. IWINIT and …

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-26, 05:25

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I think you can "blame" Yamaha for that. It was more profitable for them to sell those chips to Creative. Once again, welcome to capitalism. Enjoy your stay. The only problem with that suggestion is that Ad Lib was one of the only major sound card manufacturers that was using that chip at the time. …

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Re: BLASTERBOARD : A new SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card

Posted on 2020-02-17, 20:14

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I'll try to do my best to solve SB 2.0 drivers issue for w3.x, but I'm surprised that some of you guys have a separate card for that instead of using a better sounding BB with SB 1.5 driver, which works just fine. Any practical reason/titles? I already tried to solve it, but failed so far and …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2020-02-15, 22:10

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The rental situation in Berlin and surrounding areas seems to be rather brutal. It is significant enough that it made the national news over here. They showed groups protesting the lack of available rental units, the cost of the small number that are available, the conditions of some of the units …

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Re: Any ISA sound card sound as good as the Gravis Ultrasound ?

Posted on 2020-02-15, 06:40

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fitzpatr wrote on 2020-02-15, 02:24: I must have missed the thread. May I have a link to it, please, Cloudschatze? It was here.

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Re: Article about the history of Creative Labs / interview with its founder/CEO: The Sound Blaster Story

Posted on 2020-02-15, 05:28

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Business is war, and to compete against other businesses, you have to be willing to walk on the razor's edge of legality. Steal, lie, cheat, obliterate your competition by any means at your disposal. And if you get caught, mount a defense that keeps you juuuust inside the line of culpability. …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-02-14, 03:55

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Could you give me a general idea of pricing? I want the more premium one with PCMIDI. As mentioned previously, pricing hasn't been released yet. I have been bothering them enough to know that testing is still on-going, and the board design isn't quite final yet. I'm sure they will announce pricing …

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Re: Article about the history of Creative Labs / interview with its founder/CEO: The Sound Blaster Story

Posted on 2020-02-12, 21:53

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It would be a really interesting piece of journalism to recount the entire history of Creative and not just focus on the products they released, but how they treated and interacted with their competitors and consumers all these decades, exposing the truths behind their designs and software choices, …

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Re: Article about the history of Creative Labs / interview with its founder/CEO: The Sound Blaster Story

Posted on 2020-02-10, 16:15

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He does not have to credit AdLib with anything, he is not lying about what his product did and when, that is all. He is the CEO of Creative, what did you expect him to do? Would Nadella come out today and applaud IBM for releasing the better multi-tasking 32-bit OS (OS/2 2.0/Warp) before Microsoft …

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Re: Article about the history of Creative Labs / interview with its founder/CEO: The Sound Blaster Story

Posted on 2020-02-07, 05:26

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I decided to read the article just to see if Mr. Sound Blaster had something interesting to say. As expected, it was a fluff article full of questions that merely allowed him to stroke his own ego, ignore reality and pretend that Creative is still even modestly relevant. I don't know if they were …

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