Re: Iconic Sound Blaster CT numbers

Posted on 2020-10-13, 05:27

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It's easy with the benefit of hindsight to see the technical drawbacks of cards. What's more important here, I think, is the mass-market (*insofar as the 90's PC component market can be referred to as a "mass"!) position and desirability of these items, around the time of original release. P.S. wish …

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Re: DreamBlaster X8

Posted on 2020-10-13, 05:09

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Dream SAM5708B, 'Audio & Music Multi-DSP Processor' Chip's datasheet, PDF data 1.4MB, at https://www.dream.fr/pdf/Serie5000/SAM_Datash … ts/SAM5708B.pdf Filename Screenshot from 2020-10-13 18-12-52.png File size 69.4 KiB Views 1136 views

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Re: Retro Hardware Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-10-10, 00:04

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Nintendo Wii U's (<--sorry, I'll get that odd one out of the way immediately), Roland MT-32s, MIDI modules galore, Gravis Ultrasounds, PWM screens, SVGA CRTs, Monster Sound MX300s, Voodoo graphics cards, DB50XGs, my 286 from 1991, my SBPro2 from 1993, my 486 from 1994, my IBM Pentium from 2000, my …

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Re: Main retro PC sound devices, ordered by Open International Market Price 2020, for hobbyists in smaller/remoter count

Posted on 2020-10-08, 03:57

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To be honest I don't get the idea of this list. If you're looking to buy something right now on ebay you can look up the prices yourself. In this case the price is always what the cheapest seller wants. Just do an ebay search, limit to BIN and sort by price. If the item isn't avaliable right now …

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Re: Main retro PC sound devices, ordered by Open International Market Price 2020, for hobbyists in smaller/remoter count

Posted on 2020-10-07, 22:49

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Stiletto wrote on 2020-10-07, 22:47: This discussion might go better in the Collecting Rants thread... I am sorry if it is in the wrong place, I am still becoming familiar with the forum layout here.

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Re: Main retro PC sound devices, ordered by Open International Market Price 2020, for hobbyists in smaller/remoter count

Posted on 2020-10-07, 22:43

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Aureal Vortex 2 for 210???? That is not right. The Diamond MX 300 goes for a stupid amount but the other cards with the vortex 2 chip are way cheaper. If you look for the oem cards, specifically Dell Turtle Beach cards, you can find au8830 cards for around $20-$25 sometimes. Currently I am seeing a …

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Re: Main retro PC sound devices, ordered by Open International Market Price, for hobbyists in smaller/remoter countries

Posted on 2020-10-07, 13:05

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It's a well known fact that eBay buy-it-now prices are often very high, I don't get what your point is? For the people relevant - "hobbyists in smaller/remoter countries", which together probably numbers in the billion(s) people - things like ebay BIN are literally the only place certain things can …

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Main retro PC sound devices, ordered by Open International Market Price 2020, for hobbyists in smaller/remoter countries

Posted on 2020-10-07, 12:42

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I've been getting back into retro PC sound devices this year. Quite an expensive time to be starting the hobby - at the top end, certainly! But also many cheaper options which provide a very good experience too. Being from a small remote country, the purchasing and shipping options are very limited. …

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Re: Using a vintage multi-track recorder as a mixer, namely the Roland VS-880EX - might apply to other Roland VS- units

Posted on 2020-10-05, 23:03

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As a last resort, could just source a bunch of cheap, compatible 2.5" spinning drives, and churn through those over time. This is an era when such drives are quite cheap, due to the scrap supply from the past decade+'s notebook computers, but that cheap era will not remain so forever.

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Re: Using a vintage multi-track recorder as a mixer, namely the Roland VS-880EX - might apply to other Roland VS- units

Posted on 2020-10-05, 01:14

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Yes the SD adapters seem to all be the same fundamental design; a design which is not very broadly compatible with different card configurations and partitionings. The SATA->IDE converters are likely to be based on more robust design standards, thereby enabling greater compatibility.

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Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2020-10-04, 23:49

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There are some additional outputs on the backplane board [1] , labeled "* Audio OPT", and "Audio DWN". What can DWN mean here? [1] It's an ISA PCI Riser Board . This backplane board is labelled "NZ9751". These identifiers are printed on it: Compaq 270882-001 007244-001 007245-000 007246 Are you …

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Re: Using a vintage multi-track recorder as a mixer, namely the Roland VS-880EX - might apply to other Roland VS- units

Posted on 2020-10-04, 23:29

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The fussy behaviour I noted above with my setups, was also using an FC-1307 controller based adapter. I guess you just need to find something that works, then stick with that combination. Low quality flash cards (e.g. from AE) can also complicate matters, so it may be best to avoid those.

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Re: Using a vintage multi-track recorder as a mixer, namely the Roland VS-880EX - might apply to other Roland VS- units

Posted on 2020-10-04, 12:21

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If there was a way to force an SD or CF card to return a lower capacity than actual, it would probably make my life easier (any suggestions ?). I don't know the specifics, but judging from the existence of the old scam industry based around hacked cards misreporting their size, I am guessing this …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-04, 07:09

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Also pretty sure there is at least 1 OPL4 card that has working DOS midi. I have an Analog Devices based ISA card with also the OPL4-ML chip, or YMF704C-S ( datasheet available at ) with 1MB GM sample set - on the card itself. This old thread shows how daughterboards based on that chip variation …

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Re: Using a vintage multi-track recorder as a mixer, namely the Roland VS-880EX - might apply to other Roland VS- units

Posted on 2020-10-04, 06:17

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If there was a way to force an SD or CF card to return a lower capacity than actual, it would probably make my life easier (any suggestions ?). I don't know the specifics, but judging from the existence of the old scam industry based around hacked cards misreporting their size, I am guessing this …

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Re: Soundcard capabilities benchmark or tool, and ASOUND ALS100 based card questions

Posted on 2020-10-02, 23:32

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For objective testing and analysis, MDFourier. I'm actually amazed that THE custom software specifically written to be a fully fledged objective analyser of sound chip outputs is barely known here at this forum mecca of soundcard technology! Hopefully it's use will spread, for the betterment of …

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Re: [SOLVED] PSA : using USB keyboard with BIOS PS/2 emulation routines does not always work well. I.E. in Jazz Jackrabb

Posted on 2020-10-02, 23:14

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I found this to be one of the very few games which did not work with Bret's USB joystick drivers for DOS. Not on my machine and setup, anyway. From that, I assumed that Jazz is probably coded using some non-standard conventions for the control interface. This thread finding Jazz to be uniquely weird …

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Re: NVIDIA has removed all tech demos that rendered a woman from their website

Posted on 2020-10-02, 01:41

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Yeah I'm gonna have to agree with this. I honestly doubt someone at Nvidia, looked at a bunch of old tech demos with skimpy latex suited girls and intentionally decided to play sides by removing them. I can't speak about intentions or motivations, but cherry-picking out the demos which featured …

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Re: NVIDIA has removed all tech demos that rendered a woman from their website

Posted on 2020-10-01, 21:26

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All part of the swinging pendulums of social trend. For example, counter-objectification is now rife in mainstream media - you won't have to watch long before seeing a female character openly going "raorrr!" and "look at that butt!", "what a hunk!" and similar about random attractive men, and no …

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Re: SC-55 stopped producing sound

Posted on 2020-10-01, 21:13

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No specific technical knowledge to share, merely a logic : If we schematically consider a hardware device to be [Input Module] -> [Processing Module] -> [Output Module], then we could consider that the problem here may lie in the Input Module.

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