Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!
Posted on 2020-10-29, 19:52
At last! Congratulations! And what a nice bracket! 😀
Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!
Posted on 2020-10-28, 20:32
The celeron is for sure not the optimal system. Do you have anything slower? Also: congratulations!
Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!
Posted on 2020-10-27, 14:03
My 10 PCB SnarkBarker order was roughly 60 EUR including shipping, with ENIG. How are the prices today? I find 6 EUR per PCB pretty cheap, considering the large size of the SnarkBarker. DD0B6060-E5DA-4DB4-8D10-6BB8CB21194C.jpeg EDIT: Current price is 5 EUR per PCB w/o shipping. So 25 EUR for 5 PCBs, …
Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!
Posted on 2020-10-27, 13:59
appiah4 wrote on 2020-10-27, 13:44: Interesting. ENIG vs HSAL is a very big cost increase though, nearly 3x 🙁 Take ENIG. It is corrosion resistant and will last decades. For prototypes, use HASL, for finished boards ENIG.
Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!
Posted on 2020-10-27, 12:16
5 are minimum with almost all PCB providers. Aisler does batches of 3 but large PCBs such as Snark Barker become prohibitively expensive with them. Try to find one that has a "free shipping" on your first order. I remember that I didn't have to pay for my first shipping from JLCPCB, but that was …
Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread
Posted on 2020-10-26, 21:58
Let's throw some DACs at the ISA bus! Retroianer aka matze79 is back with another sound card. This one is for all the poor PCs that don't have any sound card, but desperately want to play stereo MOD files! Will it work? Will I ruin the card?? Only one way to find out! Sunday, 1st Nov 2020, 20:30 CET …
Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!
Posted on 2020-10-26, 21:57
But this will be yours, and yours alone! Also, the SnarkBarker comes with a SB2.0 compatible firmware, so that's already better than an original 1.5...
Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!
Posted on 2020-10-26, 13:27
Congratulation and condolences... I hope you found the culprit for real this time. That was the chip I programmed for you, right? I hope it didn't get damaged in shipping! It was a new item from Mouser, and it's two brothers are working fine in my own SnarkBarkers. I hope the replacement will work! …
Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread
Posted on 2020-10-26, 06:42
The Greaseweazle: Inexpensive Rescue of Old Floppies There are many solutions to image old floppies on a very low, flux based level: Kryoflux, Catweasel, Fluxengine or Supercard Pro, to name a few. The Greaseweazle is a low cost, open source variant that can be had for less than 10 EUR. It is …
Re: 386 with VLB, suggestions?
Posted on 2020-10-21, 08:45
@QuickNick: Intriguing board. It even supports the 486SX QFP. I really wonder why they added the VLB slot if it's non functional. Can you probe some pins of the VLB to see if it provides VCC and maybe some signals?
Re: GLX Player the only XT player ? Check Mod Master...
Posted on 2020-10-20, 07:13
Well, others also need to download, to see if you broke anything else! 😀
Re: Using an ISA VGA card on an AVR
Posted on 2020-10-15, 12:30
If you forward the VGA ports to the PCem on the STM32, you could do hardware based scrolling. That should be pretty efficient. Awesome work anyway! This is like emulation++, using emulated core, but real peripheral hardware. Extremely cool!
Re: 6€ MCE2VGA replacement - CGA/EGA/HGC capture with logic analyzer
Posted on 2020-10-15, 08:14
That would be excellent news, if possible. Could become a very nice capture device with little visible jitter.
Re: Good MS-DOS music composer programs like AdLib Visual Composer
Posted on 2020-10-13, 13:59
Check out Reality Adlib Tracker or Adlib Tracker 2 (for faster systems).
Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread
Posted on 2020-10-12, 06:04
Playing Game Music without a PC: The Roland SB55 Roland produced a number of SoundCanvas and related products. The SoundCanvas 55 came with an optional device called the SoundBrush 55. This was a floppy based MIDI recorder and player. Musicians could use it to either play back MIDI files or …
Re: Best game to test Roland LAPC-i
Posted on 2020-10-09, 09:24
Wing Commander is a good test because it uses custom instruments and the game is speed dependent, so much can go wrong haha. Any Sierra game that uses the AGI engine and supports the MT-32 would be a great test also, as Sierra made extensive use of custom instruments. Space Quest III and Quest for …
Re: GLX Player the only XT player ? Check Mod Master...
Posted on 2020-10-08, 07:46
Is there a need to go higher than 48 KHz? Even 8-bit, that frequency response (including the distortion added by 8-bit) is already above the range of human hearing... We need to make an experiment to figure that out, if anyone can hear the difference. But although the sampling theorem says that …
Re: TNDLPT : Tandy Sound on parallel port
Posted on 2020-10-02, 20:32
Awesome. Thank you!
Re: BLASTERBOARD : A new SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card
Posted on 2020-10-02, 05:37
Could this be converted to MCA? Everything can be converted to MCA, but same as with matze's ISA DAC: there are few people who know how to do that. One person that probably has that knowledge is currently in the process of creating a SoundBlaster MCA variant: https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS/status/ …
Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread
Posted on 2020-10-02, 05:31
Pimping the C64 A good friend of the channel by the name of matze79 supplied me with a rather cheap C64G. As I didn’t own a C64 at the moment, this was an excellent opportunity. The poort little C64 came with two missing keys, which were fixed by 3D printed replacements. While this looks interesting …
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