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

Posted on 2014-07-12, 08:47

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Can this card be used for SID music playback in a PC? (Once, and if, you manage to work the 8580 in it) Not yet. However, I'll look forth to make a PC-compatible SID music player to work with SSI-2001. The card deserves more than just the howling sawtooth music that's squeezed out of it by existing …

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

Posted on 2014-07-12, 07:21

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by bristlehog

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Fagear wrote: Well, replica has frequency jumper for this purpose: you can choose 0.89 MHz (SSI-2001) or 1.02 MHz (C64 NTSC). That exactly was Great Hierophant's idea in the first place.

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Re: Help identifying sound cards

Posted on 2014-07-11, 21:10

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That's because of LMSI being rare and unpopular interface. Few supporting soundcards I know of are: SB Pro 2 CT1690 SB 16 CT1790 Media Vision Pro AudioSpectrum 16 Media Vision Pro Audio Studio 16 Media Vision Jazz16 And that's all. It's also hard now to find a corresponding Philips CD drive.

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Re: [Let's go wild] What is your dream computer speaker setup?

Posted on 2014-07-11, 21:04

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by bristlehog

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A couple of ADAM S2A monitors and a sound isolated room would be enough for me. Beyerdynamic DT880 headphones would complement to that.

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Re: Help identifying sound cards

Posted on 2014-07-11, 12:48

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by bristlehog

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This is a LMSI version of Jazz16-based card. Pins on the left are the LMSI connector.

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Re: get no sound in MS-dos, but get it in win98SE

Posted on 2014-07-08, 21:26

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by bristlehog

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autoexec.bat is located in root directory. It's C:\autoexec.bat.

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Re: Any places to go retro in Barcelona?

Posted on 2014-07-08, 20:59

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I'm nearby (Sant Pol de Mar) but will leave by Thursday. We may look forth to meet here next year, since I'm used to visit Catalunya in late August. Don't know about your GF, but my wife has zero interest in retrocomputing. We may send the girls to a nearby clothes shop (some places, like American …

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Re: AWE64 Gold on a 486?

Posted on 2014-07-04, 18:04

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AWE64 Gold, despite being released in 1997, suits a 486. Its 'wavetable' synth engine is hardware and doesn't require any computing resources other than some (not much) memory for patch management information if non-default sound set is used. If it happens so that setup utility swears at you for …

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Re: Restoring -5v line on newer PSUs using a Negatron

Posted on 2014-07-02, 04:59

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by bristlehog

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SB Pro 2? I thought that only SB 2.0 requires -5v from SB series.

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Re: AVM Apex Sound Card, opinions

Posted on 2014-07-02, 04:53

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easy_john wrote: wss/sbpro/opl3/mixer part is not working, only mpu401 work. Not working? Do you have problems just in DOS or anywhere?

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Re: Logitech Soundman Wave

Posted on 2014-06-29, 15:55

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by bristlehog

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I have a boxed Soundman Wave with drivers, but will return from a vacation only after 10th of July.

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Re: Dual sound cards

Posted on 2014-06-29, 06:23

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Canonical way to do that would be using external daughterboard enclosures, MIDI switcher and audio mixer.

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Re: PX: a versatile MIDI player

Posted on 2014-06-27, 21:07

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Enjoy! ES is a long flight from RU! :) I never knew Tolstoy was buried in your home town: very interesting. Not very long, flight from Moscow to Barcelona takes somewhat like 4-5 hours depending on weather conditions. Tolstoy is buried in Yasnaya Polyana, not in Tula itself but some 10 miles away. …

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Re: PX: a versatile MIDI player

Posted on 2014-06-26, 05:47

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easy_john wrote: Can you please change default volume for MULTISND.ADV from 50 to 100%? I have built a driver with 100% default volume, but it's untested because I'm currently on a vacation in Spain and have no access to the hardware. Hope it works for you.

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2014-06-24, 18:01

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by bristlehog

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Plus in about one week now i'll be moving to the UK, so i'm gonna pack and seal all my precious retro stuff for when i return some 5 to 10 years later. Wow, 5 to 10 years? What do you intend to do in UK, is it a work-related decision to move? Greetings from Spain btw, nice country and far better …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-21, 22:49

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Just found drivers PAS, public ftp: ftp://pds.tcrc.edu.tw/Hardware/multimedia/MediaVision/ 2nd link ftp://files.120v.ac/mirrors/ftp.oldskool.org/pub/misc/Hardware/Media%20Vision/ Nope, that's PAS16 drivers, not PAS. Rumours are, though, that PAS16 drivers work with PAS cards; however, I didn't test …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-21, 08:13

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I have uploaded what I could salvage to Vogons drivers: link. However, two files are still missing, one of them plain mscdex.exe, the second is some DLL seemingly related to Windows 3.1 part. Agreed with Stojke, the high res pics and manual scan would be much appreciated.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-21, 06:20

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Got an original box Pro Audio Spectrum (PAS) 8 bit today (with blue caps), original disks and manuals...I have never seen the original box for this card, until now. Wow! One of the most rare soundcards around! I had two of them, both with black caps. Never seen the box either. I had two 3,5" driver …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-20, 17:26

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Roland LAPC-I vs. IBM PC Music Feature card : http://geryon.ru/lapc_i_imfc_preview.jpg More or less same size. Full length ISA, if I get it right. Turtle Beach Multisound Classic vs. IBM PC Music Feature card : http://geryon.ru/msnd_imfc_preview.jpg The Multisound is obviously shorter by a couple …

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Re: Can DOSBox replace a real DOS machine?

Posted on 2014-06-18, 17:26

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PeterLI wrote: But I realize that is the exception to the rule. 😀 Exactly. However, tinkering with them is a separate pleasure.

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