Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-07-15, 01:24

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Does the PicoGUS support 2 Joysticks ? either through a usb hub or using 2 PicoGUS ? Yes, you can use a USB hub to connect multiple joysticks, but the mapping will be the same on each controller (left analog stick and D-pad map to joystick 1, right analog stick maps to joystick 2). I want to …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-07-09, 16:02

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PicoGUS firmware v2.0.0 is released, available at https://github.com/polpo/picogus/releases/tag/v2.0.0 . This is a pretty major overhaul of how the card works, so strap in... New features/changes Serial mouse emulation Now you can use a USB mouse as a serial mouse on your PC. Features a configurable …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-07-09, 15:56

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Thanks mate but worry not, I've been having a great time playing with this 😁 Yes I've tried different Roland firmwares too, no difference. I've noticed that it has issues with my X2GS too so that's the last straw I think, time to accept that the PicoGUS isn't for me. I've had a beer for courage and …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-07-07, 23:59

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I think I have the McCake (great product, terrible name!) working consistently with the PicoGUS's MPU-401 implementation now, but the only thing I can point to as the fix was moving the PicoGUS to a different ISA slot. I've never subscribed to that as being a solution to anything so I'm not totally …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-07-03, 16:07

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I got a v2.0 recently, specifically to use as an MPU-401 with a McCake, but it's not behaving correctly. The PC is a socket 7 Gigabyte GA-586T2 with a K62+, I have a YMF719 based sound card installed but have removed that for troubleshooting. - I need to use IRQ 2/9, but have also tried 7. - I've …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-06-04, 21:55

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I just started using PicoGus, tried sound blaster mode with Prince of Persia, noticed the Intro is missing some notes/instruments. Tried another motherboard and also playing OPL2 VGZ capture, same problem. I attached recording of PicoGUS and VGZ to this post. I also notice some weirdness in Monkey …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-05-30, 20:44

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I have a bit of an odd question: Is the PicoGUS compatible with Linux? Especially some older versions from, like from 25 years ago. I know that there was quite extensive support for the GUS back then, including MIDI and patch loading, etc. I don't think there is a compiled binary of pgusinit for …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-05-30, 20:43

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Very excited about my purchase yesterday of the @polpo-made Femto to use as wifi in the Pocket 386. I also went ahead and bough the Pico W (with headers) ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BV1H4D7M/ref=pe_386300_440135490_TE_simp_item_image ). I think I can work my way through the Pico wifi setup with …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-05-30, 20:30

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i just got my card in the mail wil it work with a 386 ? any one has a guide how to install this card not shure how to do this Yes, it should work OK in a 386. Did you find the getting started Wiki page? It should have everything you need to get started under DOS. https://github.com/polpo/picogus/ …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-05-30, 20:28

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System: Gateway G6-450 Motherboard: Intel 82440BX/ZX AGPset (MP440BX), 100Mhz bus speed CPU: Slot 1 Pentium II 400, 192MB RAM Nvidia Geforce 2MX-200 on AGP slot I have a Sound Blaster 16 on the bottom ISA slot with Address 220, IRQ 10, DMA 1 I put the PicoGUS on the other ISA slot with Address 240, …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-05-29, 17:28

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Hi all, Just got my picogus V2 from JCM, but think my card is bricked - pgusinit just shows no found error- and trying bootsel with micro USB gives no further prompt in win, Linux. Any ideas? Much appreciated and just amazed of reviews on PicoGus, so much potential 😍 If it's not detected in DOS and …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-05-23, 18:20

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@polpo Is there technical reason why v1.2 download package is missing dedicated adlib only uf2 file? I removed the Adlib firmware because it was subsumed by the SB firmware. If you need the SB firmware to act as if it were an Adlib-only card, you can disable the SB port by using the /p 0 option in …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-05-23, 16:12

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Serdashop now has the PicoGUS 2.0 in stock: https://www.serdashop.com/PicoGUS. Should be a much better source for people in Europe! Also Flamelily IT will be stocking them soon in the UK: https://shop.flamelily.co.uk/picogus

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-05-23, 16:11

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With the recent release of the Pocket 386 on Aliexpress is there any intention to do another run of the PicoGUS Femto edition? This would be a great option for digital sound on these little devices. Yes, I have 50 Femto boards that arrived from JLCPCB this week. This weekend I will assemble them …

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Re: PicoMEM : Pi Pico on ISA, with full Memory and I/O bus access

Posted on 2024-05-22, 04:45

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Didn't PCMCIA lack DMA support, though? (The original 16-bit standard, not counting 32-bit CardBus.) I guess it could still support non-DMA sound devices such as Adlib, Disney Sound Source, CMS and Tandy/PCjr 3 voice. Yes, PCMCIA lacks DMA but there is a DMA emulation technique used by IBM on their …

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Re: TinyLlama 3

Posted on 2024-05-22, 04:15

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- Using an op amp for analog mixing of the two audio sources looks like an op amp not really needed for this simple mixing Hi, PicoGUS creator here. Super cool to see this project as well as the LlamaBlaster, they have the perfect amount of audaciousness. 😁 Can't believe I didn't know about them …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-05-20, 16:06

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scroeffie wrote on 2024-05-20, 16:05: he is selling the card with out the midi cable why is that ? https://www.serdashop.com/PicoGUS He includes the MIDI adapter. The addon is for a 1.5m DIN5-to-DIN5 cable.

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-05-20, 16:00

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The next firmware release will enable MPU-401 simultaneous with the other modes. Note that this means that any modes that use an IRQ like GUS or SB won't be able to use MPU interrupts, i.e. anything with a "1" on this list will have to use MPU-only mode: https://github.com/bjt42/softmpu/wiki/ …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-05-17, 19:52

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any resellers in europe ? I'm happy to announce that Serdaco will be selling the PicoGUS in Europe soon at https://www.serdashop.com/ ! I try to download Ultrasound installation files from github page and I am redirected to https://picog.us/. Is it possible to download this archive from somewhere …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-05-07, 20:53

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FYI I am starting to partner with "official" sellers of PicoGUS that I will link from the project homepage and my own Tindie page (my goal is to get out of selling them myself eventually). The first one I have partnered with is Joe's Computer Museum. He is US based but ships internationally, and he …

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