Re: AdLib GOLD clone is now a reality

Posted on 2023-07-27, 22:27

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by carlostex

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I was trying to get the GoldLib working along side a GUS Extreme and Orpheus II LT, and in both cases encountered various issues when the latter cards were enabled. For example, trying to run the Gold setup program would cause lock-ups. Never had any issues with the setup locking up, only the …

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Re: AdLib GOLD clone is now a reality

Posted on 2023-07-27, 20:35

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I’m wondering how feasible, would be to improve this design, taking only 3 things in mind: 1- Making the card more tolerable of faster systems; 2- Somehow the card sometimes seems to lose its configuration, needing to reset the CTRL chip, improve that; 3- Add the 16bit part connector with one …

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Re: Roland RAP-10 outputs in MONO only!?

Posted on 2023-07-26, 09:18

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by carlostex

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Years ago I bought one of these cards cheap on eBay. Caps were completely dead and leaking. Took them off, gave the card a good bath and recapped with what I had. The card had nice volume again and sounded absolutely beautiful. Yeah a lot of caps but worth it.

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Re: Five sound cards in a 386 (Gravis UltraSound, Adlib Gold, Roland LAPC-I, Game Blaster CMS, Yamaha YMF719)

Posted on 2023-07-23, 05:54

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Suggested config: Yamaha YMF: A220 I5 D1 AdLib Gold: A388 I3 D3 CMS: A210h GUS: A260 I7 D7 The CMS suggestion comes from something I did a while ago, project to patch CMS games into port 210h. Or you can use MIDIto. CMS/Game Blaster game patching and setting a new standard!

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Re: Best Sound card choice for Yamaha DB50XG or use with 2 card?

Posted on 2023-07-20, 14:41

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@badmojo Which ESS soundcard have you? How are you satisfied with sound quality? I don't actually have an Audiodrive anymore, I prefer a YMF719 based card these days, but this is the one I used in the past: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=341216#p341216 That was a great card. Hey hey!!! …

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Re: Five sound cards in a 386 (Gravis UltraSound, Adlib Gold, Roland LAPC-I, Game Blaster CMS, Yamaha YMF719)

Posted on 2023-07-17, 19:25

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The AdLib Gold probably grabs resources from the machine via its EEPROM configuration right after boot. It would be nice if the clone card had the ability to only grab resources via a dos utility only, that would make it easy to choose between an SB card or AdLib Gold. Would have been nice if the …

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Re: An AdLib-Compatible Card (1986) Older than AdLib (1987)

Posted on 2023-07-09, 01:44

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by carlostex

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So original ports for this card are 0x39E/39F?

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Re: Best ISA Sound Cards to Pair with Dream Blaster X2 GS ?

Posted on 2023-06-21, 12:01

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Dr. Sbaitso is more fun than this

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Re: Five sound cards, one computer? Questions before I buy

Posted on 2023-05-29, 22:11

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Comes down to resources, even then you can get away with sharing IRQ's etc in some instances. I forget the name but someone here did put in a crazy amount of cards and explained how he managed it, but it's definitely possible I think it was carlostex iirc? He had that crazy Sonic Ecstasy build with …

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Re: Some confusion over versions of Starflight

Posted on 2023-05-13, 15:37

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Starflight 1 EGA release is a little easier. AFAIR, there's some neighbouring planets to Arth that are colonizable, making your life much easier at the beggining and cutting mining time. Also your ships won't drop shields in the nebulas so there's one difference that makes purists simply prefer the …

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Re: WTB - IBM 3D sound card

Posted on 2023-04-28, 00:54

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I'm not a moderator but just to let you know... VOGONS is not a market place, so buying and selling is not allowed here. Try Amibay, there's a good community in there.

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Re: Innovation SSI 2001 re-engineering and/or conclusions

Posted on 2023-04-03, 20:06

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by carlostex

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Nothing is impossible. One can modify the driver so that it uses DuoSID; a second port address is not a problem, another parameter like IRQ or DMA may be used to pass it. It's kind of a crutch, but at least it can be done without reinventing the whole AIL driver parameter scheme, which is I/O port, …

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Re: FB2SCI - Yamaha FB-01/IMFC bank sysex to SCI patch converter

Posted on 2023-03-04, 22:57

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So I'm wondering how similar the IMF and FB01 drivers are. I know that the only SCI1 games Sierra officially made support for KQ5, QFG2, and Jones and only for the IMF not the FB01. There doesn't appear to have existed any driver for the FB01 for SCI1 at all. Could we create one perhaps by …

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Re: FB2SCI - Yamaha FB-01/IMFC bank sysex to SCI patch converter

Posted on 2023-03-03, 17:50

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That does sounds great! With a bit of fiddling and some librarian software you could certainly mix and match and fix up some of the other minor instruments that don't translate as nicely. But that's a solid base. What game is this patch originally from? I'll have to check which patch file it is and …

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Re: FB2SCI - Yamaha FB-01/IMFC bank sysex to SCI patch converter

Posted on 2023-03-02, 22:38

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Besides having the ability to now make custom FB-01 compatible soundtracks for SCI fangames and create custom FB-01 patch banks, some official Sierra releases can also be improved. Some of the SCI games that support the FB-01 contain instrument patch maps that don't really correspond well at all to …

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Re: WolfensteinCGA

Posted on 2023-02-09, 11:08

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jhhoward wrote on 2023-02-02, 08:17: I've actually be experimenting with the Tandy 320x200 mode. Here is a sneak peek from a capture I did in DOSBox: https://youtu.be/2OjxCX75tJ0 Glorious! I have a modded Tandy 1000 SL with a 16MHz NEC V30. It touches 286-10 levels of performance, so i’m wondering …

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Re: MK8330 : new soundcard based on the CMI 8330 chipset

Posted on 2022-12-31, 18:12

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ldeveraux wrote on 2022-12-31, 12:00: Wasn't this supposed to be the jack-of-most-trades, Full 100%-Everything DOS card though? Every chip has its own quirks and limitations. There is nothing full 100% everything. With FPGA, maybe one day eventually.

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Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi

Posted on 2022-09-17, 17:14

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I have not met any so far. But I have found a github project that can be a starting point: https://github.com/jariseon/amame Yeah i remember Scali was working on some version of that for DOSBox. Wonder how that is going. In any case this would be a great addition, if ever a VST of this is done. …

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Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi

Posted on 2022-09-17, 10:32

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Is there a VSTi for the Yamaha FB-01? I've been using Falcosoft + Munt VSTi for MT32/CM-32L + SC-VA and Yamaha XG VSTi's for General MIDI. I'm thinking of getting a second hand Mini PC just to run Falcosoft to emulate all my sound modules, so a Yamaha FB-01 could actually be a great addition to act …

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Re: HIDman - USB to PS/2 converter (Open Source)

Posted on 2022-09-14, 05:53

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This is pretty awesome. I just wish it did game controllers converting to a normal gameport.

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