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

Posted on 2023-08-11, 05:11

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by ElBrunzy

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Just picked this one up on eBay. What bracket do I need? Does anyone have them, or can I just take one off some other sound card? Thanks in advance. TW Hi TimberWolf 😝 On mine I used a vibra16 bracket, it's solely attached to db15 port and the case, I could bend the bracket screw socket to grip the …

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Re: The Adlib company had a strange attitude towards games

Posted on 2023-07-01, 17:15

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by ElBrunzy

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I think it would be pertinent to look at the other side of the story. What made Adlib the de-facto soundcard in most game of that era ? Ain't they had to push very hard with Sierra to democratize audio on the PC scene when the alternative to those maddening PC-Beeper and external DAC where those …

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Re: The Adlib company had a strange attitude towards games

Posted on 2023-06-30, 05:32

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by ElBrunzy

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That would be around 1991 and it was the decline for Adlib, SoundBlaster Pro was around the corner and relation where quite tense with Yamaha playing fools with Adlib and CreativeLabs. My uneducated wild guess is that Adlib was desperate at reaching new market opportunity and did not felt spending …

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Re: SBVGM (DOS) VGM Player

Posted on 2023-05-22, 00:19

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by ElBrunzy

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I was not very precise, I meant .VGM (or .vgz) file music. For instance, in my case, with an SAA1099 (the CM/S counterpart of the SB 1.x) you can play Sega Master System's PSG music which are my favorite since it's the console I had as a kid. About the YM2151 and YM2608, do you know the SAAYM ?

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Re: SBVGM (DOS) VGM Player

Posted on 2023-05-19, 22:17

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by ElBrunzy

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Hi RetroGC, I'm a big fan of SBVGM.EXE and I enjoy it on similar computer as yours. While I prefer to run it in msdos environment, it work well under windows 9x. I remember OPLx told me that you have to make command.com run full-screen though (alt-enter) otherwise it will suffer from random slowdown …

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread

Posted on 2023-05-04, 05:31

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by ElBrunzy

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Kahenraz comment and pixel peeping at the SmooBandit pikshur also remind me that the GF1 card have serious compatibility issues with an ALi m1541 chipset that I put in my trash box (what good is a retro motherboard if it can't handle a GUS properly ? I demand !). I never try Interwave based GUS on …

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Renaissance : Nothing On, with a GUS not all music playing ?!

Posted on 2023-03-16, 00:10

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by ElBrunzy

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My favorite music disk is of course Nothing On . The group Renaissance does not need presentation and their music disk "Nothing On" is of the ideal format according to me. It's simple, intuitive and fun to watch while you listen it's awesome music, moreover it support the GUS and from what I make of …

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

Posted on 2023-03-15, 02:50

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by ElBrunzy

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I finished assembling my arGUS and using IWAVECFG.EXE I could copy it's pnp configuration from the GUSPnP and swap it back and forth to test it. The first thing I noticed is how noisy the GUSPnP was when it get initialized. So I though it was related to a mixer setting, the culprit on the GUSPnP is …

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

Posted on 2023-02-04, 01:53

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by ElBrunzy

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Nice job bnz99. I'm nearly done building mine too so I was shivering nervous just reading your post, I'm very glad it turned out well for you 😅 ! A place I can think of the guspnp behaving differently than a gus classic is at the epic megagames stuff like omf2097 and jazz jackrabbit, I think you …

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

Posted on 2023-01-02, 19:53

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by ElBrunzy

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Thank you very much MJay99 for sharing that with us. I ordered some with confidence now. On a related topic it seem I wont be able to do that test socket thing. It do not really matter as I am not even sure if I will bother with the rom yet. I might as well solder the default rom and close the case. …

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

Posted on 2023-01-01, 07:40

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by ElBrunzy

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thank you very much florian3 for the information and the precision about the rom. For sure I missed that forum bit and had probably ordered those rom from mouser/digikey. You most likely saved me some times and money here ! I was thinking about ordering something like those . It seem there is …

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

Posted on 2022-12-26, 16:53

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by ElBrunzy

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Is the rom mandatory for the argus to function ? I never used the rom on my guspnp (or so I think). I was reading the 2018 prototype building around page 80 and my attention got attracted by the Keropy's one. He did some test with a 16mb stick but no rom so I assumed U31 is mandatory, but I'm in …

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

Posted on 2022-12-22, 05:42

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by ElBrunzy

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For some reasons all 16.9344mhz crystal have disappear from serious supplyer in Canada lately 🤣. But I found that you might get them for a dime a dozen from China using aliexpress. Of course specs are not precise so we dont know load capacitance or equivalence resistance, maybe it's not much of a …

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Re: cloning Win2000 Pentium 4 boot to BSOD

Posted on 2022-12-06, 19:41

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by ElBrunzy

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Thank you so much guys, UniATA did the tricks \o/

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cloning Win2000 Pentium 4 boot to BSOD

Posted on 2022-12-06, 02:30

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by ElBrunzy

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Hi, I guess I need some help to continue a cloning project. I have two P4 computer with comparable hard disk interface. The computer boot from the MBR on the internal primary interface CF card where It start NTLDR and read BOOT.INI that is on C:\. This partition is FAT32 so it can either start Win98 …

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Re: Iconic Sound Blaster CT numbers

Posted on 2022-11-08, 16:04

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by ElBrunzy

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It's probably a form of OCD but I hate unpopulated socket. I see SB1.5 and SB2.0 mission SAA1099. Your MAX miss the SOIC 512kb upgrade. The Goldfinch has no ram while the GusPNP has. On a more serious note, congratulation for your preservation effort. Good job hunting those !

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Re: Iconic Sound Blaster CT numbers

Posted on 2022-11-07, 15:58

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by ElBrunzy

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no SAA1099 ? 😞

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Re: Second Reality in DOLBY SURROUND

Posted on 2022-10-07, 04:46

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by ElBrunzy

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Using Stretch tutorial I was able to produce a 5.1 FLAC file that I could play on my living room's HTPC running Kodi on Linux. The surround effect is very exciting and I was amazed to hear the front/rear separation of some effects ! The big spaceship after intro scrolling clearly come from the rear …

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Re: Second Reality in DOLBY SURROUND

Posted on 2022-09-10, 03:49

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by ElBrunzy

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Thanks lti, I was not aware of the existence of those matrix decoder. I searched about them and I think you are right, it's how they must have done it. Future Crew made it clear they used Dolby Surround and you need 2 stereo sound card, so I assumed they where using the Dolby Stereo and Dolby …

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Second Reality in DOLBY SURROUND

Posted on 2022-09-04, 18:55

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by ElBrunzy

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I was reading the README.1ST file that come with Second Reality demo (a bit late, I know) and I noticed that they mention about using a decoder/amplifier in the HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS AND OPTIONS section so you could get some cool surround sound effects! Are they suggesting they support something …

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