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First post, by cyclone3d

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Hehe... the price is silly but really crazy to see this unreleased card.

Looks like it comes with a CT4390 and CT4540 with the original RAM upgrades as well.

https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1. … ucket=14#detail

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Looks like this is an add-on board for the AWE64 Gold II

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Yamaha YMF modified setupds and drivers
Yamaha XG resource repository - updated November 27, 2018
Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide
AW744L II - YMF744 - AOpen Cobra Sound Card - Install SB-Link Header
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Reply 1 of 17, by The Serpent Rider

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Are there crazy enough Creative collector for such price? Probably not.

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Reply 2 of 17, by Ozzuneoj

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Amazing to think that things like this still turn up. For $20k I'd like to think it'll be there for a long time... But I honestly wouldn't be all that surprised if someone bought it.

Now for some blitting from the back buffer.

Reply 4 of 17, by cyclone3d

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SirNickity wrote:

Huh. I had no idea that existed. Neat, but not $20,000 neat.

Yep, I've known about it for a while from the official sound blaster milestones page:
https://www.soundblaster.com/about/

I never knew any made it into the wild though and I never even heard, much less seen, a pic of the digital connection board.

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Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide
AW744L II - YMF744 - AOpen Cobra Sound Card - Install SB-Link Header
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Reply 5 of 17, by Ozzuneoj

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cyclone3d wrote:
SirNickity wrote:

Huh. I had no idea that existed. Neat, but not $20,000 neat.

Yep, I've known about it for a while from the official sound blaster milestones page:
https://www.soundblaster.com/about/

Uhg... that page is embarassingly bad. There are so many errors. And it is the manufacturer's website... the mind absolutely boggles. 😐

Now for some blitting from the back buffer.

Reply 6 of 17, by cyclone3d

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Ozzuneoj wrote:
cyclone3d wrote:
SirNickity wrote:

Huh. I had no idea that existed. Neat, but not $20,000 neat.

Yep, I've known about it for a while from the official sound blaster milestones page:
https://www.soundblaster.com/about/

Uhg... that page is embarassingly bad. There are so many errors. And it is the manufacturer's website... the mind absolutely boggles. 😐

HAHAHA. true. My guess is some intern wrote it that didn't really have a clue.

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AW744L II - YMF744 - AOpen Cobra Sound Card - Install SB-Link Header
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Reply 8 of 17, by Anonymous Coward

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Anyone know what it can do? The board itself seems pretty dull...it just looks like a regular AWE64G with more memory.

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Reply 9 of 17, by tpowell.ca

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Still no Yamaha OPL3. 😒

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Reply 10 of 17, by AlaricD

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Ozzuneoj wrote:

Uhg... that page is embarassingly bad. There are so many errors. And it is the manufacturer's website... the mind absolutely boggles. 😐

Soundblaster.com wrote:

Sound Blaster 16
8-bit Mono, 100K Transistors

That. Doesn't. Seem. Right. That *IS* embarrassing!

Reply 11 of 17, by Ozzuneoj

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Anonymous Coward wrote:

Anyone know what it can do? The board itself seems pretty dull...it just looks like a regular AWE64G with more memory.

If I had to guess it probably offers little or nothing over a CT3670 with lots of memory.

Now for some blitting from the back buffer.

Reply 12 of 17, by cyclone3d

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Ozzuneoj wrote:
Anonymous Coward wrote:

Anyone know what it can do? The board itself seems pretty dull...it just looks like a regular AWE64G with more memory.

If I had to guess it probably offers little or nothing over a CT3670 with lots of memory.

Well, with the CMS2 AC-3 board it is supposed to do surround-sound. As far as I know, that is the only real advantage to it.

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Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide
AW744L II - YMF744 - AOpen Cobra Sound Card - Install SB-Link Header
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Reply 13 of 17, by tpowell.ca

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Can it finally handle 48kHz digital audio yet ?

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Reply 14 of 17, by cyclone3d

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tpowell.ca wrote:

Can it finally handle 48kHz digital audio yet ?

According to this page, the AC-3 card has a 96KHz DAC.
http://www.soomal.com/doc/10100001633.htm

Have fun with the horrible translation.

Yamaha YMF modified setupds and drivers
Yamaha XG resource repository - updated November 27, 2018
Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide
AW744L II - YMF744 - AOpen Cobra Sound Card - Install SB-Link Header
Epstein didn't kill himself

Reply 16 of 17, by cyclone3d

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oeuvre wrote:

anime figurines jack up the price

Totally worth it. 🤣 🤣 🤣

Yamaha YMF modified setupds and drivers
Yamaha XG resource repository - updated November 27, 2018
Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide
AW744L II - YMF744 - AOpen Cobra Sound Card - Install SB-Link Header
Epstein didn't kill himself