furan wrote:

I've been souping up a Libretto 70CT for DOS games. Real DOS games on real hardware. I love the VHS size of the Libretto, and al […]
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I've been souping up a Libretto 70CT for DOS games. Real DOS games on real hardware. I love the VHS size of the Libretto, and although the speaker is mono, the headphone jack is stereo. It has a nice Yamaha OPL3-SAX (datasheet says 3, toshiba says 2).

Well I wanted wavetable sound so I spent some time investigating and prototyped it with the DreamBlaster S1, since it's so cheap. I have a nice wavetable board I got that probably came out of a karaoke machine in Taiwan that sounds "just right." I'll be embedding the whole thing in the PC card port, since I'm using CF on the IDE side and have a cool method coming for Internet/shell.

Apologies for vertical video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjrwAJyVJ-c

Very cool!

Can you explain the bit about the wavetable board that came from a karaoke machine though? I've never heard of such a thing. What machines had these and are they actually compatible with PC soundcards?