Finally! After ~1year of eBay searching I did manage to grab an Adlib card!!! No biggie to most, but I am just too happy!!!! 😊 😊 😊
and here is the compulsory pic 😁
Congratulations!
It reminds me when I purchased a Covox Soundmaster + back in the eighties.
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keropi, whoa! this one just in fantastic shape!!! Congratulations, man! 😀
wow, a real adlib card!.. i wonder if those chips are dumped.
Awesome! 😎 😀
thanks! thanks!
thanks! thanks!
np! np! :p
Congrats, have fun:)
WOW! What an excellent condition card! You're holding one of the most revered Sound Cards in PC History! Congrats!
Wow, nice find! It is indeed in excellent condition.
They are quite hard to come by nowadays. A couple of months ago I found one myself and I think I'll hang on to it till I die. 😀
Mine is a 1987 version, boxed with manuals and disks.
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wow grats! That's the card that made Creative a real contender (by promising compatibility that is)!
Congrats, Amigo! 😀
The adlib has a very "warm" but noisy sound compared to a Sound Blaster
I suspect this card was bought from "das vaterland"? 😉
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🤣 yah, it vas in a regular auction with a CT-1350B, a quick offer of 50eur transformed the auction to BIN and I grabbed it 😀
wow, a real adlib card!.. i wonder if those chips are dumped.
The big one has, to the extent it can be dumped:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dd8kqn9f_13cqjkf4gp
The other chips are standard TTL logic, amplifiers and a DAC.
The adlib has a very "warm" but noisy sound compared to a Sound Blaster
An excellent contribution, I never knew anyone had found actual differences compared with a Sound Blaster. However, I must ask which Sound Blaster was the comparison done with?
Also, it is rare to find an Adlib card where the chip markings for the two Yamaha chips have not been scratched off. I suppose Adlib gave up trying to protect their identity once everybody learned the identity of the chip.
wrote:The big one has, to the extent it can be dumped: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dd8kqn9f_13cqjkf4gp […]
wow, a real adlib card!.. i wonder if those chips are dumped.
The big one has, to the extent it can be dumped:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dd8kqn9f_13cqjkf4gpThe other chips are standard TTL logic, amplifiers and a DAC.
The adlib has a very "warm" but noisy sound compared to a Sound Blaster
An excellent contribution, I never knew anyone had found actual differences compared with a Sound Blaster. However, I must ask which Sound Blaster was the comparison done with?
Also, it is rare to find an Adlib card where the chip markings for the two Yamaha chips have not been scratched off. I suppose Adlib gave up trying to protect their identity once everybody learned the identity of the chip.
Compared to SB1.5, 2.0 and SB16 CT17xx series
Listened thru my 300eur Sennheiser headphones
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The big one has, to the extent it can be dumped:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dd8kqn9f_13cqjkf4gpThe other chips are standard TTL logic, amplifiers and a DAC.
thanks for clarifying this.
Wow, with a good enoguh image of one, someone can probably build one.
Even without 😉
Worst problem is to get the YMF chip and it's DAC.
1+1=10
YMF chip is not hard to get - it is in every sb1.0, sb1.5, sb2.0 and sbpro1 (pro1 has even two of them), although sb2.0 is the easiest card to find. The chip is socketed so no risk of destroying the sb card.
Don't know about dac. Maybe it is on the sb cards too? Is it the Y3014B (FM 1314) chip? so it is on every sb1/1.5/2.0/pro1 (pro1 has two of them) too, also socketed.
