Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2018-09-06, 20:55
Thank you. I'm mainly looking to find if anyone has actually seen and/or used one.
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2018-09-06, 22:37
YW, just trying to see if I can track down any information on it. Found a site that lists the distributors who sold it: Elek-Tek, En Point Technologies, Ingram Micro, M & A Technologies, Nexus Unlimited https://docstore.mik.ua/press/skpress/RESELLRA/13/17.htm Did you find that one pic on the …
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2018-09-07, 04:17
Yep, that's where the pic came from. As far as I can tell, it's currently the only pic that exists.
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2019-05-22, 17:06
Huge props to cyclone3d! Due to his heads up, I was able to get one as well. I can't wait to open it up! I suspect it contains the same/similar hardware as the DS301/DS301A. I owe you one!
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2019-05-26, 04:05
Oh that's cool. I haven't even had the chance to test mine out yet although I did image the disks and scan the manual and upload them to vogonsdrivers... in case you haven't seen my post in the vogons drivers library thread. Thanks for the 4.05 driver set BTW.
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2019-05-26, 14:11
Man I wish someone could recreate this device (or at least it's board) with modern components. Both DS311 and DS301 are extremely rare, and that's unfortunate, because, unlike DS201, this is basically Sound Blaster on a parallel port. If you want sound on your old DOS laptop (or, perhaps, if you are …
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2019-05-26, 20:16
That's a nice find!
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2019-05-28, 00:07
Unfortunately, the GPS part is likely an ASIC, which is a completely custom setup, and the TI is a modification of a stock TI part, and there is no way to know what the modifications are. So, it's basically two parts that are not sourceable outside of the original hardware, especially the ASIC. …
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2019-05-28, 04:07
I don't see how the hardware is the hard part. The software is what is going to be capturing the DMA and the Sound Blaster and Adlib I/O addresses and then just sending those commands to the device on the parallel port. The DOS part was what the Backpack CD-ROM drives with the built in 16-bit sound …
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2019-05-28, 06:00
The problem is, many places in those old magazines will list an item for sale, with a price, before they ever receive it from the company. So, when you would call, they'd say "Oh yeah, it's coming in on so and so, do you want me to put you down for one? I'll call you as soon as they come in" and …
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2019-05-28, 14:36
And it has been sooo long since the Port Blaster was maybe released that none of us can remember if we saw it in stores or not. I have a feeling that it was released as I am pretty sure that I have seen other pictures of it at least besides that one in the one magazine I linked to. The shape of it …
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2019-05-28, 14:54
Creative scrapped the Port Blaster shortly before it would have launched, purportedly due to incompatibilities between parallel-port implementations . Dave Compton, who worked for Creative Labs at the time, provides additional clarification in a YouTube comment : Back in around '93 when I was …
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2019-05-28, 15:12
Well that is seriously helpful information. Seems like it would have been fairly simple to add an option for external power instead of just cancelling the whole project though. In any case, while looking up stuff, I cam across a list that includes some parallel port sound devices I had not heard of …
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2019-05-28, 16:56
Here is the last working driver and manual download page on the wayback machine for DSP Solutions. Only useful for information and specific file names as everything was stored on an ftp which no longer exists. http://web.archive.org/web/19980626124640/htt … cs/filelib.html
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2019-05-28, 22:56
I wonder if this device's Sound Blaster emulation driver works like OPL2LPT's TSR driver. Considering how it requires at least 80386 to work, a memory manager like EMM386, and it doesn't work in protected mode, I think this might be the case. And if it does, maybe a game patcher could also be made. …
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2019-05-28, 23:00
I wonder if this device's Sound Blaster emulation driver works like OPL2LPT's TSR driver. Considering how it requires at least 80386 to work and it doesn't work in protected mode, I think this might be the case. And if it does, maybe a game patcher could also be made. I think it's likely, but I'm …
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2019-05-28, 23:13
One thing that puzzles me about the Port Blaster is why Creative thought they could run the device off the parallel port power anyway. You can barely make a SoundJr. run off of it. There is no way the Port Blaster would have run on it.
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2019-05-29, 00:32
I think their through process regarding AC adapter is "If you have a laptop, the last thing you want to need to do is plug something in that will prevent mobility". That seems to be the case... But the thing is, you'll still need to plug in speakers somewhere too. From the one picture of it that …
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2019-09-11, 18:35
Has anyone tested this unit with a PS/2 model 50Z? I have this setup and while Wolf3d recognizes there is a SB sound option no actual music plays. Any ideas? -IBM PS/2 Model 50Z -SX\NOW 20mhz cpu upgrade installed -2MB MCA ram card -MCA Game Card.
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2021-04-23, 15:57
LGR has released a comprehensive review of this device https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf39mEPUuJA
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