Re: Please identify this card Opti / Crystal / Yamaha OPL

Posted on 2022-07-11, 21:07

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I got the same unknown sound card with the Opti941 wavetable and with the opti924 / cs4231a sound chips. I testet it under dos and win 95 . In Vogons driver library there is a driver package for the 924 OPTI chip especially for the pro-multimedia sound card. This driver works fine. I found out that …

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Re: When PC became soulless for you?

Posted on 2022-07-10, 22:40

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For me something changed when PC cases went from grey to black/silver/coloured and RGB blink blink😄 I just love these classic grey/beige towers and desktops.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-10, 21:47

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I stopped by a thrift store today, and to my shock they had a computer part ! A Lacie USB floppy drive for $3.00. It works fine, though when I tried it on an MVP3 board with Windows 98 it caused a blue screen when it tried to install a driver. I had installed NUSB24 driver, so I installed the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-10, 21:44

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I was searching for a Savage 4 Extreme and finally got this Number Nine SR9. Haven't checked clock and memory speed yet, will bench it against a no name Savage 4 soon. Seems u got the same card as me, even the memory is the same Samsung SEC. It is interesting that this card have DVI only... Dont …

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Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank

Posted on 2022-07-09, 18:57

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Version 4.5 sounds great to my ears, nice work @appiah4 👍 For what it's worth I'm comparing it to this recording from an SCC1, because that's the SC55 sounds I'm most familiar with: https://soundcloud.com/user-306991531/doom-scc1 Glad you like it, enjoy and have fun. I've really done very little, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-09, 16:54

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I was searching for a Savage 4 Extreme and finally got this Number Nine SR9. Haven't checked clock and memory speed yet, will bench it against a no name Savage 4 soon.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-08, 20:08

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2 ELSA Winner cards: Winner 1000 XHR (hybrid EISA/ISA) which I had owned before, traded it and now finally replaced it again. And Winner 1000PRO Video VLB, which is somewhat less special, but still a very nice and fast VLB card. https://dependency-injection.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/DSC_1900- …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-17, 22:38

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That MX 440 with a 32-bit bus sounds wonderfully terrible. I want one. Sounds perfect for my Rambus 1.4 P4 XD Fun fact. My parents bought me a computer around the year 2000 that was supposed to "last me through college", and it was a Pentium 4 1.4Ghz with RDRAM. So I am intimately familiar with …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-16, 21:50

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I got a GeForce MX 460 today. I never had one so far, so it is welcome in my collection of AGP cards! I'm curious how much faster it is in comparison with the more common 440?

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Re: Need help with a strange soundcard (SB16+ICS wavetable)

Posted on 2022-05-24, 23:09

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2nd video with a few more recordings demonstraring the ICS Wavefront: https://youtu.be/R_1z3lRRe94

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Re: Terratec Base-1 not working - looking for eeprom content.

Posted on 2022-05-24, 13:02

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Thank you for the offer! I've tried it on 3 different systems - one being a 386SX SBC, another being a 586 with PnP and my regular testing rig (a 486 DX2-66) with DRAM sizes of 8 to 32 MB (mostly 30 pin FPM). I've tried both, the original drivers and unisound and only without the eeprom the card …

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Re: Need help with a strange soundcard (SB16+ICS wavetable)

Posted on 2022-05-23, 22:20

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Can you make a recording of the Duke Nukem 3D theme and, if possible, the human1 track from Warcraft 2? These and the E1M1 track from Doom are my go-to comparisons when it comes to FM and wavetable synthesis. The samples on this card sound pretty good on the tracks that I'm unfamiliar with. I'm not …

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Re: Need help with a strange soundcard (SB16+ICS wavetable)

Posted on 2022-05-23, 22:14

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@pc-sound-legacy in one of the previous links was a tool to upload WFB files to the ram. Have you happen to have tried anything in regards to the memory simms? Seems it should support 8mb, but reading through the other thread seems there was a struggle to convert soundfonts to the WFB format. I did …

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Re: Sound Blaster sounds in DOS games from Windows ME?

Posted on 2022-05-23, 21:51

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Windows ME tried to cover it's DOS roots pretty hard. That's why I prefer Windows 98SE instead. If you hear music, the card is initialized and listen to the adlib ports. Did you manually select the adresses or use auto detect in the games sound setup? (Maybe manually will work) I have no clue why …

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Re: Terratec Base-1 not working - looking for eeprom content.

Posted on 2022-05-23, 21:26

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Maybe it is not the card but the card in combination with your specific setup that causes issues. What kind of Mainboard/CPU/ram configuration do you have? I remember having trouble with AD1816ADJ cards as well but I forgot if it was due to driver issues or hardware setup. I have at least two of …

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Re: Is a specific Ensoniq AudioPCI driver or version needed to utilize MT-32 "emulation"?

Posted on 2022-05-23, 20:56

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Ah there's a DOS utility, mt32.exe that toggles it. I forgot how MISERABLE the OPL support is on this card, holy cow. Oh yes, the OPL emulation is legendary. You should have seen me when I "upgraded" from SoundBlaster Pro to Soundblaster PCI (that is basically an Ensomiq Audio PCI) back in the days …

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Re: AdLib GOLD clone is now a reality

Posted on 2022-05-23, 20:38

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Absolutely fantastic! Thanks for all these great projects and the work and time you spend on it.

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Re: Terratec WaveSystem SCW001/2

Posted on 2022-05-23, 20:23

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Just released a video with the SCW001 playing some Warcraft II Orcs music. https://youtu.be/brlfLaj366Y I think it can held up with other lower to mid segment modules quite well but have to record some more tracks to get a bigger picture.

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Re: ESS1868F IRQ DOS/WIN98 problems

Posted on 2022-04-14, 22:26

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dos isn't initialising any other hardware than what is needed, so unisound is setting the irq at 5 for the sound card. this setting isn't permanent, it's just the TSR in dos making it up as it starts. which is absolutely normal. the motherboard's resources show you irq 9 because win95 and win98 are …

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Re: MK8330 : new soundcard based on the CMI 8330 chipset

Posted on 2022-04-14, 21:44

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Awesome! I really appreciate your work. Do you plan to produce and distribute the card for us, like you do with the Oprheus? I can confirm CMI FM sounds the same as the Yamaha OPL3, made a comparison video once: https://youtu.be/cZpzgJGZmnc (OPL2) and here (OPL3) https://youtu.be/pjz9or5VqDQ

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