Re: The comprehensive list of all modern reproductions of vintage sound cards

Posted on 2023-06-03, 02:50

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rafpereira wrote on 2023-05-03, 10:07: AdLib GOLD clone is now a reality and Orpheus II status should be updated to released Added and updated. Thank you.

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Re: The comprehensive list of all modern reproductions of vintage sound cards

Posted on 2023-04-15, 15:15

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matze79 wrote on 2023-04-04, 19:28: Covox and Disney Sound Source from ESP32 ESP32 based DSS / Covox Clone Added.

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Re: The comprehensive list of all modern reproductions of vintage sound cards

Posted on 2023-04-15, 15:08

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Pierre32 wrote on 2023-04-04, 22:04: LightStruk wrote on 2023-01-31, 13:44: Added the Hardsid ISA clone, the ES1868_ISA8, and the Covox Stereo-on-1. Thanks Baleog for the links! Heads up, wrong link on the new Covox entry. Fixed. Thanks for the heads up.

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Re: Strange high CPU load when playing mp3 on ISA sound card

Posted on 2023-02-14, 18:44

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Assuming 16-bit, 44.1 KHz, stereo audio, that's just 176,400 bytes/second of decompressed audio data on the bus, well below what ISA can handle. With a 430FX chipset, I'm guessing you're using a PCI graphics card and the on-board IDE controller, which is also PCI, so you shouldn't have much …

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Re: The comprehensive list of all modern reproductions of vintage sound cards

Posted on 2023-01-31, 13:44

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Added the Hardsid ISA clone, the ES1868_ISA8, and the Covox Stereo-on-1. Thanks Baleog for the links!

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Re: The comprehensive list of all modern reproductions of vintage sound cards

Posted on 2022-10-26, 21:00

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The OPL2LPT, OPL3LPT, TNDLPT, and CMSLPT are on the list now. If a device requires a patch or TSR to behave like its vintage sound card counterpart, it can be included from now on, but will be specially marked.

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Re: The comprehensive list of all modern reproductions of vintage sound cards

Posted on 2022-10-26, 20:31

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Added the PiGUS and PicoGUS, thank you, oso2k! As for the CMSLPT, I guess it's time to add the "requires modified or new software" section I thought of a while back. Folks really want to see these devices on the list.

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Re: The comprehensive list of all modern reproductions of vintage sound cards

Posted on 2022-08-03, 17:16

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Added serdaco's QWave, which is a clone of the Diamond Monster Sound Wavetable Card, with a QS1000 chipset + QS1001A 4Mbit ROM.

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Re: The comprehensive list of all modern reproductions of vintage sound cards

Posted on 2022-07-19, 19:13

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Added keropi's Orpheus II . With SoundBlaster Pro, Windows Sound System, GUS, and true OPL3 compatibility, not to mention a wavetable header, this card has most of the ISA sound card feature list covered. As SScorpio pointed out , it's a Tandy, CMS, and Covox away from being a real-life …

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Re: Low Profile PCI Riser For AT/ATX Motherboards

Posted on 2022-06-21, 13:20

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Not all signals are connected in parallel for PCI slots. It is only true for ISA Slots. For example not all IRQ lines are available on single PCI Slot. Note that in some BIOSes, you can assign an IRQ for the corresponding PCI slot. somehow they made this work. ( I have one) it’s buried in my stuff …

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Re: The comprehensive list of all modern reproductions of vintage sound cards

Posted on 2022-05-10, 17:10

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Added the MK8330 to the list. First clone soundcard featuring the CMI8330 that I'm aware of.

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Re: What exactly is this network card, and what Windows versions does it have drivers for?

Posted on 2022-05-06, 14:34

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I would be fascinated to see the benchmark performance of this card vs. a contemporary mass-market 100BaseT card like an Intel 82559 EtherExpress PRO/100 or 3com 3c905. Latency, throughput, and CPU utilization.

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Re: What is a 3D accelerator?

Posted on 2022-04-08, 13:55

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Nvidia might have called the Geforce 256 a GPU, but the definition of GPU that always seemed more appropriate to me is a graphics chip with programmable shaders. That puts the "processor" in "Graphics Processing Unit" as opposed to a fixed-function renderer. If that's a GPU, then the Geforce 3 (NV20 …

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Re: The comprehensive list of all modern reproductions of vintage sound cards

Posted on 2022-04-07, 20:32

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What would be really cool is if both those functionalities could be used at the same time, but I'm not sure whether that's possible. If I'm reading this programmer's guide correctly, bytes written to printer's data port intended for the DSS are followed by "strobe" (12) and "power up" (4) bytes …

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Re: ARGUS Project thread (aka GUSsel Crowe) - it's not dead (yet)

Posted on 2022-04-07, 17:19

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Thanks for finding these, MJay99, especially one with stock available.

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Re: What is a 3D accelerator?

Posted on 2022-04-07, 16:13

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do they? For Virge break even was around 120-133MHz, at that point playing 320x200 software rendering was faster than "accelerated" mode on Virge. Speaking from experience, I had a Virge/VX (not the fastest Virge, I know) on a Pentium 200 MMX, and not only was it always slower than software …

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Re: The comprehensive list of all modern reproductions of vintage sound cards

Posted on 2022-04-06, 13:52

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I just realized something. If someone combined a Disney Sound Source with an OPL3LPT on a single parallel port dongle, would that be a compelling product? It would need some kind of primitive mixer, even if it's as simple as an analog potentiometer dial.

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Re: The comprehensive list of all modern reproductions of vintage sound cards

Posted on 2022-04-06, 13:50

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There's also this (rightmost gadget): https://i.imgur.com/aNYljS1.jpg Which is basically a kinda discrete Stereo-on-2 Covox with switchable DSS support. The current layout has some errors, but I'd be willing to go fully open source with that project so it can be fixed by someone else for a neat and …

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Re: What is a 3D accelerator?

Posted on 2022-04-06, 13:45

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Still not all too rare, in my not-so-up-to-date experience: Matrox Mystique -ATI 3d rage -S3 Virge -Maybe earlier nvidia like Riva 128, if you find a PCI one There's a reason why the Rage 3D, S3 Virge, and Matrox Mystique are not rare or desirable - they are 3d decelerators most of the time. They …

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Re: The comprehensive list of all modern reproductions of vintage sound cards

Posted on 2022-04-05, 19:43

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Could you please add our second project? While AWE64 Legacy is still being cooked at the final stages of production, we're messing with some intense R&D on Fortex: Vortex 2 (AU8830B0) + YMF744B-V intended for small form-factor systems and all sorts of other weird applications. No working prototype …

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