Re: What does an Ad Lib sound card sound like?

Posted on 2011-01-03, 14:13

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Got one of these GameBlasters as well, alongside a DSS ... and a recently aquired Ensoniq Soundscape classic. Currently I just wish, there was a central place where people could gather knowledge/technical details/history/docs about said old (sound) hardware ... considering how hard those are to get …

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Re: What does an Ad Lib sound card sound like?

Posted on 2011-01-03, 12:43

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Thanks very much for the info people. I was a bit late, when I joined the retro party, and there are some things I never managed to find, at a reasonable price. An Ad Lib card was one of them, and another was the LAPC-i. I did find a CM-32L and MT-32, so that's OK, but as for the Ad Lib - well, I …

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Re: Modern motherboard with ISA slot

Posted on 2011-01-03, 12:38

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This might be interesting: http://www.costronic.com.tw/Ev71p.htm Not sure how much it costs, if you go to thier homepage it asks you to email an enquiry. The info underneath the pics says that you need to write a device driver yourself. Could be very tricky, if you're not in to that kind of thing. …

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Re: Modern motherboard with ISA slot

Posted on 2011-01-03, 07:51

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Ever checked into PICMG 1.3? There are backplanes which have ISA, PCI-X and PCI-E slots ... Single board computers with that specification go up til at least socket 775 from a quick google.

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Re: Modern motherboard with ISA slot

Posted on 2011-01-03, 07:24

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LPT-AdLib IMO a very sensible project considering that that Sound Blaster speech / sound effects and MIDI (external Roland modules) usually work just fine on newer machines. And the lack of real Yamaha OPL chip is usually the thing that sticks out. Thing is, that LPT-AdLib is strictly limited to …

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Re: Old PC, new purpose. Details inside.

Posted on 2011-01-03, 07:18

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Hm ... kind of a 2 bladed sword there, considering that while you take away the OPL2/OPL3 emulation and use the real thing, you stick with a lower quality of the general emulation using an outdated version of the emulator (not having exactly followed MAME development, but I suppose there at least …

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Re: ABIT TX5 PS2 Problem.

Posted on 2011-01-03, 07:07

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@prophase_j I have the manual but i don't know where to connect the cables on the MOBO. The pinout goes like this 00 0 0 00 My ps2 header from the bracket has red,yellow,green and blue wire. You've gotta find out which color corresponds to which signal (or pin on the PS/2 jack) otherwise all other …

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Re: Modern motherboard with ISA slot

Posted on 2011-01-03, 07:03

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Good luck getting i.e. second reality to run on an i7 You would be surprised LOL Not an i7 but on a Phenom II and Asrock 770 chipset board. You can go into BIOS, set the reference clock to 100 and multi to 0.5 LOL BAM you have a modern 50 MHz CPU :D Cool :) Awhile ago when I was doing various silly …

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Re: QUERY: RSS/Atom Feeder...

Posted on 2011-01-03, 06:42

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Sorry to dig this one out, but still better than opening another post 😉 Any chance this might be added at some point? Simple yes/no is enough of course Personally I find it easier to follow forums via RRS feeds from my e-mail client ... but that's prolly just me

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Re: WarCraft II TidesofDarkness & Expansion Set problem-game shuts down to desktop

Posted on 2011-01-03, 06:32

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We don't support abandonware aka downloaded games. Before offering money for people helping you here, you should _maybe_ spent the money on the game first. Considering the version you got might be broken and WarCraft2 most likely still being easily obtainable. Otherwise, what Hardware and operating …

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Re: Modern motherboard with ISA slot

Posted on 2011-01-03, 05:58

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Dant wrote: You see we're trying to use any ISA card we want on these systems, LPT adaptation limits our usable IRQs, and bandwidth, along with preventing use of DMA channels or any sort of 16-bit card. Well yes, read my very first posting. Good luck getting i.e. second reality to run on an i7

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Re: ABIT TX5 PS2 Problem.

Posted on 2011-01-02, 23:41

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My ps2 header from the bracket has red,yellow,green and blue wire. No idea which color corresponds with which pin there (mine was black, yellow, red and orange I think) ... try to wire it up corresponding to this mspaint powered drawing. That's the way it's done on my mainboard (which is basically …

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Re: ABIT TX5 PS2 Problem.

Posted on 2011-01-02, 22:59

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I have this board and has a 2x4 row PS2 pinout. I would like some help regarding how to connect the PS2 port in the MOBO. I tried again some combinations but no luck. How many pins does the header have? 4? 5? 6? 8? Recently had a similiar problem with my VL/I-486SV2GX4 but figured it out after a …

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Re: Modern motherboard with ISA slot

Posted on 2011-01-02, 22:55

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Oh yes, I remember seeing that while browsing through that site for making a Genesis flash cartridge and converting an NES into a VS. System arcade board(awesome site)! Thing is, I have absolutely no idea where to get those damn AdLib cards for cheap. I saw one on eBay go for around $100US, and …

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Re: New Member and new 486 Build

Posted on 2011-01-02, 16:24

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Welcome aboard 😀 That case is really neat, I have a very similar one for my oldest DOS machine. Also pretty cool you stuck with a 8x CD-Rom ... sadly all the old ones I had left, died already forcing me to use "unauthentic" 40x drives.

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Re: What does an Ad Lib sound card sound like?

Posted on 2011-01-02, 16:08

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It's pretty much what the mole said :) Can't do much wrong there anyways, considering the original AdLib is just an OPL2 + corresponding Amp stuck on the ISA bus (technically it's so easy, one can even drive the card on an LPT port ... external power supply required tho). Any card with a YM3812 or …

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Re: Innovation SSI 2001 re-engineering and/or conclusions

Posted on 2011-01-02, 14:03

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Well, I would prefer using a software emulation engine as modern SID replacement. Current implementation such as in JSIDPlay2 have made a considerable progress in comparison to earlier emulations. You can even choose on the fly what filter characteristic your emulated 6581 should use. ( http:// …

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Re: Modern motherboard with ISA slot

Posted on 2011-01-02, 08:22

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I know one thing these boards could potentially be good for: emulating arcade games with a YM3812 or YMF262 using any SoundBlaster with a discrete YM3812 or YMF262 or a sound card from a competing manufacturer with a discrete YM3812 or YMF262. Old versions of MAME(pre v0.60) have support for sound …

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Re: Innovation SSI 2001 re-engineering and/or conclusions

Posted on 2011-01-02, 05:36

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A similar process was done on vintage-computing.com. They created an 8 bit IDE controller from scratch! Well, this isn't exactly what I'd call from scratch ;) Just like how doing a page in a coloring book isn't exactly drawing a picture. How about mixing this design into the card? SID chips are …

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Re: Modern motherboard with ISA slot

Posted on 2011-01-01, 16:03

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Makes you wonder how the ISA slot is actually implemented, considering there are industrial grade PCI to ISA solutions, which are supposed to work ... yet all appear to be quite hack-ish. Otherwise, there's always the PICMG standard/formfactor or however you wanna call it. Apart from that ... what …

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