Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2023-04-21, 07:13

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And in today's Titles-You'll-Never-See category!............. "Top 10 SBOS Moments". 🤣 @pc-sound-legacy, I dare you! 😀

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2023-04-18, 21:23

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I agree. Init problems tend to be soldering continuity issues, in my experience. I have built a couple of cards now. Each time, it was a process of careful Initial Build, followed by a detailed visual inspection of every single joint , using a $5 Jeweller's Loupe. There were ALWAYS several bridges …

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Re: MP32L - Lite version of MP32 : Pi based MT32 synth

Posted on 2023-04-04, 13:26

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Hey I've had this device for some time, it's nice and compact, but I have this wired thing happening. If I boot up a game, like quest for glory 1 (in mt32 mode) it start out ok and sounds correct to my ears, but if I push the second button from the left to change mode or what you call it, the sound …

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Re: MP32L - Lite version of MP32 : Pi based MT32 synth

Posted on 2023-04-03, 21:06

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Hey I've had this device for some time, it's nice and compact, but I have this wired thing happening. If I boot up a game, like quest for glory 1 (in mt32 mode) it start out ok and sounds correct to my ears, but if I push the second button from the left to change mode or what you call it, the sound …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-03-26, 22:20

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Shagittarius wrote on 2023-03-26, 16:19: I know I just think its silly since the role he plays is more like a soldier. Its not like he does anything smart that isnt just action. His university degree probably didn't have many classes covering those kinds of activity.

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Re: Show us your custom Physical mt32-pi Builds

Posted on 2023-03-24, 21:51

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Hello, I like most of the ideas here. I am new to this, so please excuse my noob questions. I have been in contact with serda.com and would like to install the MP32L for my build [since both of my sound cards don't have the Wave blaster header], but if possible to fit it internally inside a 5.25 as …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-03-09, 13:08

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Yes, there certainly is. It's called "too much money on your hands" and "greed knows no bounds." + the ebay bubble. It's no coincidence that every single Ridiculous Price Item is based at that one limited, centralized marketplace. Whose traders operate in their own isolated e-realm, where Elite …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-03-09, 08:54

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has to be something else going on here surely!? or maybe my disbelief is just out of touch with "rare" cpu collectors... Yes, there certainly is. It's called "too much money on your hands" and "greed knows no bounds." + the ebay bubble. It's no coincidence that every single Ridiculous Price Item is …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2023-03-03, 21:08

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A new video from Ian/polpo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LBXzy4Fus0 Looking at the Tandy and CMS modes. + he may take a well deserved Pgus break for a month or 2, now that we have all this recent big progress to play with for a while. If you can stay away. :) Kudos to our friend Tech Ambrosia …

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Re: ARGUS Project thread - Now with gerbers and documentation in initial post!

Posted on 2023-02-27, 03:14

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Hi all, I'm hoping for a sanity check. I love the idea of making one of these, but I've never ordered PCBs before, or populated a bare board or anything like that. I'm fairly confident in my soldering ability with things like recapping, replacing SMDs and repairing lifted pins. That feels similar …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2023-02-22, 22:02

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For my info: Mobygames list of Tandy supported games: https://www.mobygames.com/attributes/attribute/32/ Mobygames list of Game Blaster (CMS) supported games: https://www.mobygames.com/attributes/attribute/42/ Just a day after v0.5.x, firmware v0.6.0 is released! https://github.com/polpo/picogus/ …

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Re: PicoGUS: Gravis Ultrasound emulator on an ISA card with Raspberry Pi Pico

Posted on 2023-02-20, 00:58

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@polpo Please do establish a Ko-fi link or some other way for the community to contribute towards development costs.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-02-18, 22:20

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Well, I tore/pulled a calf muscle while jogging the other day, so I'll probably be posting a lot to this thread over the next week or two! Diablo II Right after I got done praising Act II for being a lot more interesting than the first act, the game sent me to what was basically a giant flat field …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-02-14, 22:43

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That's interesting. Unfortunately I'm not aware of pricecharting equivalents for (PC) hardware (etc), as that would be good to see too. Another niche area in such trends is the open source repro. My favorite kind! Take the MT-32 (and my accompanying anecdata). The market rate for those about doubled …

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Re: PicoGUS: Gravis Ultrasound emulator on an ISA card with Raspberry Pi Pico

Posted on 2023-02-13, 07:48

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*camps out on sidewalk outside Polpo's house, waving "Release The Firmware Hostages!!1" placard* But seriously, the awesome work continues, great news on the Tandy front.

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Re: PCB destroying adhesive found in my Roland Sound Canvas SC-55mkII (inspect your synthesizer!)

Posted on 2023-02-12, 08:09

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There's quite a Yellow Glue rabbithole, once you start looking around and researching. To name just one example, last year some people started seeing issues (of the fiery variety) with certain UPS models: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/voy9kl/cyberpower_cp1500pfclcd_fire_hazard/ https:// …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-02-11, 21:41

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Diablo II I am putting Baldur's Gate II aside for now, because I would like to save it for a rainy day in the near future when I want to play a really good party-based RPG. Instead, I will play Diablo II. I played this a lot back when it was first released, but never completed it. I ended up …

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Re: PicoGUS: Gravis Ultrasound emulator on an ISA card with Raspberry Pi Pico

Posted on 2023-02-05, 23:48

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Great testing @krivulak, and your motherboard's dramatic life story has much livened my morning's second cup of coffee. I think we will be seeing this made into a big Hollywood movie one day. Shuttle Island. Breakfast at GIFanny's. The culprit was ISA Soze all along. It seems as though, very roughly …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-02-04, 00:01

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It's a different market up there in the niche stratospheres. When elite spoils are up for grabs, the big money comes out to play. You need a lot of disposable wealth to justify the price of a small new car on a 20 year old computer expansion card whose main advantage (apart from being large enough …

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Re: MT32-Pi Wavetable Board

Posted on 2023-02-01, 00:34

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Nice to see this form factor adaptation of the mt32-pi and MUNT function. Breaking out the display (and some controls, perhaps) to an accessible place could indeed be a useful extension.

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