Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

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...it’s pretty obvious that Media Vision was Creative’s main threat, and to whom they played catch-up on and off for a number of years. Consider the following: Nov 1989 – Creative releases the Sound Blaster 1.0 Apr 1991 – MediaVision ships the MPC-compliant, stereo, 2xOPL2-based Pro AudioSpectrum …

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Re: Any ISA sound card sound as good as the Gravis Ultrasound ?

Posted on 2020-02-15, 01:49

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If what you want is good signal-to-noise ratio.... What to avoid: - early SB 16 For what it's worth, an appropriately configured SB16, early or otherwise, can be respectably quiet. From my highly-disappointing thread that touched on this very subject: https://www.symphoniae.com/soundcard/RMAA/ …

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Re: Article about the history of Creative Labs / interview with its founder/CEO: The Sound Blaster Story

Posted on 2020-02-09, 17:24

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brassicGamer wrote: The Sound Blaster Fairytale For what it's worth, the August, 1987 date attribution for the Creative Music System is correct, and relates to its release in Singapore.

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Re: Hearsay 1000 for IBM PC - a missing piece of PC sound history from mid-eighties

Posted on 2020-02-07, 04:33

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I think Echo PC II should be supported by lots of games for PCM sound output, as there's DIGPAK (by John Ratcliff) support. And AIL, by extension. Unfortunately, the PCM playback method/routine of the later Echo PC II isn't compatible with the earlier Echo PC+, limiting known software support of …

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Re: Hearsay 1000 for IBM PC - a missing piece of PC sound history from mid-eighties

Posted on 2020-02-06, 22:01

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Agrajag27 wrote: Hope that helps in some way. Yes, thank-you! What a shame though. I'm not familiar with Street Electronics' history, but when contemplating PC audio "what-ifs," they probably missed an opportunity or two.

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Re: Hearsay 1000 for IBM PC - a missing piece of PC sound history from mid-eighties

Posted on 2020-02-06, 21:06

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It would be great to validate some of the mentioned software support, if that's at all possible with the later driver set that you found. I'm afraid I can't help with the original software - I passed on a chance to obtain a complete card several years ago, and have no idea where it might have ended- …

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Re: TANDY Dos-Gaming-Thread (1000RL/HD)

Posted on 2020-01-24, 04:05

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Not sure how likely a scenario it might be, but it's possible the system's EEPROM contents are corrupt. Any change in behavior if you run SETUPTL /A, toggle between DISK > ROM > DISK, save, and reboot?

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Re: Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 8-bit driver update files?

Posted on 2020-01-20, 05:42

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http://www.symphoniae.com/elw/pas/pas8dsk1.exe

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Re: TANDY Dos-Gaming-Thread (1000RL/HD)

Posted on 2020-01-20, 04:52

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I'm really quite done with this system now. No, really. :lol: Well, so much for that. Again. :rolling_eyes: https://www.symphoniae.com/Tandy/2020rl_1_s.jpg A longed-for Aiwa ACD-300 has replaced the Panasonic KXL-RW10A, and a CM-32L has been swapped-in for the MT-32. Go Super Dimension Fortress …

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Re: MT-32 Write Request

Posted on 2019-11-23, 03:11

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Just got through testing the 2.07 MT-32 (also applicable to the CM/LAPC-variants), and in contrast to the behavior of the 1.xx MT-32 units: Parameter edits to the Patch Temporary Areas do *not* cause the corresponding Timbre Temporary Area data to get re-loaded. The Write Request functionality …

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Re: MT-32 Write Request

Posted on 2019-11-22, 20:02

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I see what you're saying. It looks like unrelated individual parameter changes to the Patch Temporary Areas do indeed cause the associated Timbre Temporary Areas to be re-loaded. I'll check against a v2.07 MT-32 later to see if it behaves similarly. Since changing the Patch Temporary Areas results …

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Re: MT-32 Write Request

Posted on 2019-11-22, 03:23

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The mt32 patch temporary area reset the timbre temporary area each time you change a parameter. I'm not entirely clear on what it is you're trying to do, but focusing on just this issue for a minute, it sounds like you might be including the parameters used to select a timbre as part of your edits …

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Re: MT-32 Write Request

Posted on 2019-11-21, 22:03

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I've tested against a v1.07 MT-32, and the Write Request functionality appears to be either broken/vestigial, or erroneously documented.

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Re: MIDILPT

Posted on 2019-10-12, 18:42

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boomlinde wrote: In my case, only if the MIDI module also passes the data on the RS232 port to its MIDI ... output port.... This is exactly what the RS-232-capable Roland/Korg/Yamaha/etc. units do, for what it's worth.

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Re: I got Dune II working with the Disney Sound Source!

Posted on 2019-10-04, 03:02

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For what it's worth, AIL natively supports the use of DIGPAK drivers. Because of that, I've found that adding Covox Speech Thing, Disney Sound Source, Tandy DAC, etc. support to otherwise non-supporting AIL titles is just a matter of installing/configuring a game for Sound Blaster playback, and …

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Re: TANDY Dos-Gaming-Thread (1000RL/HD)

Posted on 2019-10-01, 03:27

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I think the CM11 is a rebranded 1084 ? Couldn't say. The actual picture tubes may be similar, in any event. In other news, I swapped the Iomega Jaz with an external Microtech PCD-47B unit tonight; it having been on the to-do list for some time. There's no associated performance benefit, but the …

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Re: TANDY Dos-Gaming-Thread (1000RL/HD)

Posted on 2019-09-27, 23:21

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Recently swapped-out the dimming CM-11 monitor with its newer-style (and less-used) counterpart. I'd thought that I was quite ready to move on from this system, but apparently not, having recently completed "Conquests of Camelot" on it besides. C'est la vie... http://www.symphoniae.com/Tandy/ …

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Re: TANDY Dos-Gaming-Thread (1000RL/HD)

Posted on 2019-09-10, 21:19

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What software do you use for the serial routing to the mt32? Just modified game drivers, where I've adapted the MPU-401 routines for serial-port (COM1) usage. These drivers are all available in subsequent pages of the following thread, along with a small executable (SER31250.COM) that will set the …

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Re: TANDY Dos-Gaming-Thread (1000RL/HD)

Posted on 2019-09-10, 20:37

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Potato-cam show-off video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zocVXdvHZkA&t=501s

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Re: Are there 8-bit isa scsi cards?

Posted on 2019-09-06, 02:31

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I have no immediate or future use for the Future Domain and Seagate cards mentioned in my linked post above. Send me a PM with your address, and they're yours.

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