Re: A tale of two PSUs
Posted on Yesterday, 02:46
pewpewpew wrote on Yesterday, 01:19: I suspect you mean the ATX-300-12E, and this isn't one of those. The ATX-250-12E was more notorious.
Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO
Posted on 2020-02-22, 05:04
Sorry about missing the Media Vision filing. Not sure how I missed it. other than the false advertising lawsuits, I guess I don't feel that their legal actions were beyond-the-pale. They were extremely persistent and certainly tried venue shopping against Aztech. Fortunately their suit in California …
Re: The Search for the Last PCMCIA Wireless Card
Posted on 2020-02-22, 02:34
You need to differentiate between PCMCIA, PCCard, and ExpressCard.
Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO
Posted on 2020-02-22, 02:12
Media Vision wasn't sued by Creative. Aztech was over compatibility R/E while Aureal and ESS were sued over the MIDI sampler patent. Would Aureal have been able to turn the corner without being hampered by the court case? Would ESS have stayed in the consumer space if they hadn't been forced to …
Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)
Posted on 2020-02-22, 01:41
Indeed. Living with their shipping constraints must make life interesting.
Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO
Posted on 2020-02-21, 23:05
You either survive, or you don't. Well, ask yourself what Creative accomplished with all their antics. They're now a shadow of what they once were, essentially irrelevant in the non PC multimedia world and losing millions this last fiscal year. As their litigation has not abated with their actual …
Re: Building a SBC system
Posted on 2020-02-21, 22:31
Jo22 wrote on 2020-02-21, 16:49: Or Zeta (BeOS off-spring). 😁 Or Haiku.
Re: Building a SBC system
Posted on 2020-02-21, 16:40
chinny22 wrote on 2020-02-21, 13:06: BeOS Oh, yeah!
Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO
Posted on 2020-02-21, 15:37
brassicGamer wrote on 2020-02-21, 14:13: Or are they devious because they brought outright Capitalist attitudes to an innate market? Somethings broken when your primary venue of competition isn't the market place but the civil court of California.
Re: ESS Audiodrive 668F Issues
Posted on 2020-02-21, 15:25
Also, does the SC-55mk2 need to be plugged in for the TSR to actually run (I am currently getting one shipped to me from Japan)? Nope, you can load the TSR without a MIDI device attached just like you can initialize the MPU401 interface on a SB16 dry. A jumper configured 688 card doesn't need …
Re: ESS Audiodrive 668F Issues
Posted on 2020-02-21, 04:23
You probably need jumper settings for the card. Most of those cards weren't configured through software.
Re: AMD 5x86@160mhz., Media Vision PAS16.
Posted on 2020-02-21, 04:19
WARNING! WD40 is and never will is NOT a lubricant ever. It was intended use was protecting the metal from corrosion, which I researched long ago. I tried some on something long ago and it thickened up to waxy mess and does not have lubricant qualities even for heavy loads, and really messy. You'll …
Re: Is it even possible to save a "fried" board?
Posted on 2020-02-20, 04:19
The AMD Palomino core introduced on chip thermal diodes. Board and firmware support was dicey, but when implemented properly the sensors were able to cut power and save the CPU.
Re: Most user friendly Programming Language, Tools and IDE for developing software for DOS in 2019?
Posted on 2020-02-20, 03:30
How far could a person realistically go just with DEBUG? Theoretically, I guess you could bootstrap all the way up if you wanted, but that would be insane.
Re: Emulating MT-32 on an RPi2
Posted on 2020-02-20, 03:18
Thoughts on using this in conjunction with the Pisound board for MIDI IN/OUT? I haven't used the Pisound, but it does appear to require a kernel module for the MIDI interface. That module isn't included in the kernel upstream source and therefore likely not in the Debian kernel packages. You can …
Re: When did General Midi and Sound Canvas support fall off for big budget releases?
Posted on 2020-02-20, 03:00
I agree, but I was disappointed in the bitrate. Compared to the fidelity of FM or GM, there was no clarity. It sounds likes the treble is turned all the way down. I replayed and beat both Crusaders in 2018 so really got to appreciate the compositions, but still, that muffled sound quality was a bit …
Re: CD audio vs Roland & General Midi
Posted on 2020-02-19, 21:18
That wasn't really a common practice back when gamers had sound modules. We were somewhere between the era where mastering engineers were terrified of peaking at 0dBfs and so kept their transient levels closer to -6dB just to be safe, and when Pro Tools ushered in the DAW as standard operating …
Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO
Posted on 2020-02-19, 21:13
Creative's case is that of an adopted standard, rather than one explicitly defined, where a considerable segment of the software industry "standardized" on the digital audio playback capabilities and routines of the Sound Blaster early on. Perhaps my EQ is just super-low, but I'm having a difficult …
Re: When did General Midi and Sound Canvas support fall off for big budget releases?
Posted on 2020-02-19, 16:48
Command and Conquer used a (non-CD) digital audio soundtrack as early as 1995. Same year for Crusader: No Remorse. Being a huge Origin fan, I remember being highly disappointed at no GM option because prior to then, Origin made amazing GM soundtracks for their games. On the plus side, No Remorse …
Re: What’s in your Garage ?
Posted on 2020-02-19, 16:45
Page 1 of 347