Re: AWE32 revision thread
Posted on 2012-10-21, 03:56
I've mentioned this a fair number of times, but all CT1747 chips contain Yamaha's OPL3 core. The chips lacking the OPL logo were simply produced before Yamaha registered the trademark.
Re: Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum and Pro Audio Spectrum 16?
Posted on 2012-10-08, 04:50
Referring to the Pro AudioSpectrum cards as "Sound Blaster clones" is a bit disingenuous, especially as far as the PCM and Mixer support is concerned. In any event, and despite being a pretty big Media Vision aficionado myself, I happen to agree with Great Hierophant in that there is simply no known …
Re: Technically impressive FM synth music
Posted on 2012-09-30, 23:36
mills26 wrote: What chip is Genpei war using? It produces a very realistic whistle sound 😀 Everything I've posted in this thread is an OPL2 (YM3812) composition/arrangement. For the recordings, however, I've captured the S/PDIF output from an OPL3-based AWE32.
Re: Technically impressive FM synth music
Posted on 2012-09-29, 18:13
Leftover recordings (for the handful of you that bother to listen to this stuff)... Genpei War (源平合戦) Alternate Battle Theme Finale The Legend of Sword and Fairy (仙劍奇俠傳) PALADIN_5.mp3 PALADIN_6.mp3 PALADIN_7.mp3 Empire of the Angel II (天使帝國二) A14 A29
Re: Technically impressive FM synth music
Posted on 2012-09-24, 23:21
mills26 wrote: The ym3812 has a "composite sine mode" (CSW or CSM mode) which was ment to be used for speech synthesis! CSM synthesis is fairly, eh... distinct. A few PC-88 titles by Game Arts feature CSM speech, including Zeliard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3apkzZQa4E
Re: Innovation SSI 2001 re-engineering and/or conclusions
Posted on 2012-09-23, 21:24
I bought "Card #2" from dBob. Actually he put it on auction on a local site. Having personally kept in contact with Penya for the past four years, hoping he'd let me know if/when he ever decided to sell the card (that must have become DBob's at some point), this news is just a bit disappointing. …
Re: Technically impressive FM synth music
Posted on 2012-09-19, 04:17
Its works, thanks for telling me about this. Just need to find a similar feature for "Chinese Paladin" now... :) Nice songs! Is there an English translation of this game somewhere? Not that I'm aware of, I'm afraid. how about this? (Lollypop, 1994) The Lollypop tunes, while still technically …
Re: Technically impressive FM synth music
Posted on 2012-09-18, 23:39
Joey_sw wrote: Thank you so much for the 天使帝國二 musics. There is a music jukebox feature, by-the-way, that works with both the Chinese and Korean versions of the game, and is accessible as part of a larger "cheat" function. http://forum.gamer.com.tw/C.php?page=1&bsn=02966&snA=256
Re: Technically impressive FM synth music
Posted on 2012-09-18, 12:05
More OPL2 RIX stuff... Empire of the Angel II (天使帝國二) A08 A17 A31 A33 ENDA
Re: The Grand OPL3 Comparison Run!
Posted on 2012-09-15, 02:48
raymangold22 wrote: I actually think CT1749 was the first to implement CQM (as per that SB32). The CT1749 is simply a plug-and-play bus-interface chip, and lacks any sound generation capabilities. You seem to have overlooked the CT1978 chip in that photo...
Re: The Grand OPL3 Comparison Run!
Posted on 2012-09-14, 06:15
In any case we can put this question to rest once and for all. Was there a big debate about this somewhere? There's basically a zero-percent chance that the CT2505 contains Yamaha's OPL3 core, for a number of reasons, including the mentioned trademark issue. There's also the fact that the chips …
Re: CGA 4 color mode - why CMYK?
Posted on 2012-09-11, 03:50
Oh. That doesn't work in DOSBox 0.74, but it's been fixed since then (see attached screenshots from newer SVN builds). Ah, excellent... :) Not sure why they'd do that when the Tandy already supported 16 colors... maybe some really low-RAM models couldn't handle the extra video memory overhead? It's …
Re: CGA 4 color mode - why CMYK?
Posted on 2012-09-11, 03:17
VileRancour wrote: With DOSBox set to machine=tandy, the game seems to use the usual 16-color Tandy mode (visually equivalent to EGA). So that's not how it works on an actual Tandy1k? It works fine in 16-color mode. I'm referring to the 4-color CGA mode, however (set with the "c" command-line …
Re: CGA 4 color mode - why CMYK?
Posted on 2012-09-10, 19:10
... IBM fixed this issue with the PCjr (which had a full palette register, making those 4 colors freely selectable out of 16). Speaking of which... Micro Forté's "Demon Stalkers" uses some 16 different 4-color CGA palette combinations that display properly on TGA-based Tandy systems, and even on …
Re: Sierra/Dynamix sound driver hacking
Posted on 2012-09-07, 01:52
tikalat wrote: Noticed Sierra games use 16-bit DAC... Win versions play 16-bit. But DOS plays 8-bit, unless one has Pro Audio 16 card. Meh. Or a Windows Sound System (or compatible) card...
Re: Sound card modifications (YMF719 + DB60XG)
Posted on 2012-08-31, 01:19
Do you have any experience which soundcards can utilize the Audio-In functionality of the wavetable header efficiently? I think we tried to discuss this already somewhere else, but there was only very few information available. On the other hand this topic is quite interesting since it could allow …
Re: A gallery of strange sound devices
Posted on 2012-08-17, 20:25
antz wrote: Does anyone have the original Software for the Adlib 32/64 IDE 4D... http://queststudios.com/smf/index.php?topic=2885.0
Re: A question about power cables and roland sc-8850...
Posted on 2012-08-09, 20:29
You might contact Roland's parts department. Not only will they have access to the relevant service manual, and can tell you exactly what might be needed to switch the voltage type, but they should also be able to supply any and all parts, including an entire 117V power-supply board, if that's what …
Re: 286 motherboard
Posted on 2012-08-08, 00:43
Having gone through a similar exercise with the "Super Tandy," I can tell you that a large number of real-mode games, from 1990 onward, make use of (and in quite a few cases, require) EMS for graphics/sound caching and support. Sierra's SCI1+ games, MicroProse's adventures, and quite a few Lucasarts …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2012-08-03, 02:16
TheMAN wrote: now who was the lucky one that outsniped me for this? http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View … em=160852555852 Perhaps you can convince this guy to relist: www.ebay.fr/itm/230831357231
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