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

Posted on 2020-03-29, 13:11

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Alright ... I haven't kept up with your nicknames then ;) Pavel, PCBsale-ru, Chipkin among a few others. As said, I'm cool with other InterWave based clones ... but wow, that first revision is almost an insult ... a near 1:1 clone with all credits removed. If you had asked you could potentially have …

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

Posted on 2020-03-28, 18:06

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Eurgh ... what a fucking mess :) To keep things short: Only matze's RC2 had been shipped. I've sold off the very first prototype to a collector from .ru (which is documented in this thread) otherwise everything has been going according to plan. So cut your BS :) To keep things as a hobby -and quite …

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

Posted on 2020-02-17, 19:56

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Politics are not to be blamed, unless you want to distract from personal responsibility 😀

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

Posted on 2020-02-15, 20:54

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This is not about today's relevance, but oweing to people to which I didn't deliver in a long, long time - and probably won't for another, possibly never.

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

Posted on 2020-02-15, 18:43

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how about no or do it yourself (preferably in a seperate topic)? Current status: ARGUS Prototypes still not sent, materials safely stored, living in a glorified storage room for sublet, still working at my scummy, loser-job 6 days per week. Feels good to be a combination of a slacker and a failure. …

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

Posted on 2019-12-06, 21:59

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I'd defintely prefer to finish shit myself and feel at least slightly less than a co-dependant loser - so yeah ... an offer for taking over isn't the best at this point. If I haven't been able to find a decent solution by January I'll be handing stuff over to a local friend or within the community …

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

Posted on 2019-12-06, 18:51

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Well fuck my life ... guess who just had his hopes destroyed once again, that I might be able to stay if I sent in the required paperwork. I'm so tired of this bullshit with my former flatmate (who I've been running after for piece of the paper for 3 months now), the landlord and this city overall. …

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

Posted on 2019-12-04, 15:29

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I'm still alive and around - even tho times are really tough. I hope to get back onto the project by February next year, but can't promise anything. I guess not ending up homeless is more important than this project. I still have the "Release Candidate" boards wrapped up, but haven't been able to …

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Re: MCA Adlib card -- just need pictures

Posted on 2019-09-09, 08:52

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I don't own any PS/2 machines this point. But both thumbs up for reverse engineering this extremely rare card.

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Re: Ensoniq Soundscape Elite

Posted on 2019-08-29, 08:15

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I've previously owned 2 due to extreme luck. One was still shrinkwrapped ... sold for 1€(!) on eBay due to an extremely limited description without pictures roughly 6 years ago. The other one was "just" boxed but in near new condition, found at a flea market at a major german vintage computer meetup …

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

Posted on 2019-08-26, 21:41

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What you both said ... it's a decent park to walk through (I actually kinda like the petting zoo and the large, round grass field), but probably has the worst weed of Berlin on offer (from what I heard ... the dealers probably are desperate for sales for a reason - namely bad quality you only want …

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

Posted on 2019-08-26, 06:13

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There's one very specific corner where alcoholics gather (usually watched by 2 cop cars) and one backyard which is usually populated with dealers ... not pretty, but not a hotspot either.

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

Posted on 2019-08-24, 09:33

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are you looking to live in Charlottenburg? 18-24 is very expensive and reaches Luxembourg-Prices (which are really premium...but for new flats). Anyway: we waited years after the GUS release for a card, we can wait any more months required to finish the project ;) Welcome to Kreuzberg36 ... one of …

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

Posted on 2019-08-22, 20:43

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If you check the RC2 carefully JLCPCB actually fucked up that instruction they gave themselves ... I ended up with a JLCJLCJLCJLC marker (under the Interwave) I put on the card PLUS their own pool identifier in an always visible place. A decent hotfix is drawing over their pool marker with a red …

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

Posted on 2019-08-21, 06:10

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Driving down the price to an uncertain degree will still work if the cards get put out in 5 years 😉 Yes, this project has been taking longer than I originally intended ... a lot longer. If that's a problem to anyone involved, I'm always up for a dialogue.

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

Posted on 2019-08-20, 06:19

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eeguru wrote: shock__ wrote: ...but keep in mind this is a one person project for the most part. Isn't that an intentional decision? Or is the project source open at all? It's a very intentional decision ... don't get how that's relevant tho.

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

Posted on 2019-08-20, 06:18

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No need for financial support ... that regard is pretty much save for now. Appreciate the offer tho. The problem is more or less that renting a place here is ridiculously expensive, unless you're verified as poor/socially weak. 18-24€ per m² is something only the rich can affort, but extremely …

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

Posted on 2019-08-19, 20:52

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Another update: Let's say my life is currently chaotic, part of hectic and somewhat existential. On the good news, I just started a new regular job today (previously I did restore vintage computers as a contractor with less and less jobs coming in since a while). On the bad news ... well, my …

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Re: how not to build a sound card

Posted on 2019-07-18, 15:14

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Gotta have to start somewhere :) While I never learned PCB design, I'd call this extremely good for a first PCB. Sure it has it's botches and kinks, but so do mine still after 7 projects. Looking forward to see how the final product looks like if you decide to make it more than a personal project at …

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

Posted on 2019-07-08, 15:07

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i wonder how many of these Innovation SSI 2001s really exist in the wild ? I'm currently aware of 2 (owned by people on this forum, being the one with the "sid 6581" written near the socket with a marker and the one with a 6581R4AR) and one being "semi-lost" (should be on loan to someone in this …

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