Re: AWE 32 price spike on E-bay?

Posted on 2015-06-29, 23:19

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by Cloudschatze

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Great Hierophant wrote: Use the digital output for OPL3 and you won't have to worry about the amps, crappy or otherwise. Regrettably, this is a concept that has yet to gain any sort of widespread adoption, despite being one of the better reasons to own one of the OPL-based AWE32 cards.

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Re: AWE 32 price spike on E-bay?

Posted on 2015-06-29, 18:53

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raymangold wrote: The fact that the AWE32 has a broken poorly made OPL3 clone... Probably need to be more model-specific with that statement. The CT2760, CT3900, and CT3980 have the Yamaha-produced CT1747 bus-interface chip, with integrated YMF262.

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Re: SC-55 Problems

Posted on 2015-06-29, 18:05

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by Cloudschatze

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Those Service Notes also establish that the Roland SC-55 has 3 Mbytes of sample ROM and a 512Kbyte external firmware ROM which may be coupled with the firmware internal to the CPU. Yes, although this isn't related to the topic at all. :) By comparing with the SC-50 Service Notes, you'll also come …

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Re: SC-55 Problems

Posted on 2015-06-29, 17:45

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Referencing the SC-55 Service Notes , you'll notice that the output stage for the headphone and RCA jacks is common all the way through the VR encoder board. Since the headphone output is functional, this rules out all of the ICs except for the single M5218FP op-amp (IC11) driving the RCA outputs. …

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Re: Request Hi-Res Photos of CT2940

Posted on 2015-06-27, 22:32

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by Cloudschatze

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squareguy wrote: Hmmm odd, might be optional but is definitely for the OPL3/DAC It's not optional if the Yamaha chipset is present. It was already determined that the crystal had broken off of the card in that photo.

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Re: GUS PnP works with some games, but not all. Why?

Posted on 2015-06-27, 06:56

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That is it, I hope this helps someone. Getting Discworld to work properly with a GUSPnP shouldn't be as complicated an affair as all that. I have a Pro with 8MB of RAM installed, and am able to run an unpatched CD version of the game - using the Gravis Ultrasound selections for both MIDI music (via …

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Re: queststudios.com no more?

Posted on 2015-06-23, 21:01

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PeterLI wrote: Too bad. To be fair QS was very quiet the past 2 years. QuestStudios was always more than just its forum though. It was an expression of Tom Lewandowski's passion for the music of Sierra's games, MIDI, and the Roland MT-32.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-23, 20:23

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dogchainx wrote: All of these were between $5 and $15 each at my local thrift store. Ah, DI finds...? 😉

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Re: Simmconn AWE64 Adapter

Posted on 2015-06-12, 22:22

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Since it was never intended to be a proprietary format, Creative did publish and release the specifications of their own memory modules: http://www.symphoniae.com/soundcard/Creative/MISC/ct1930.pdf http://www.symphoniae.com/soundcard/Creative/MISC/ct1950.pdf I think cloning these DRAM-based modules …

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Re: ISA sound card with onboard speaker

Posted on 2015-06-12, 18:13

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Media Vision's Pro AudioSpectrum/Plus/16 cards include a PC-speaker output header, to which you can connect an internal speaker (either the one already in the system, or one entirely separate). If the wire leads from the speaker in your T5200 are too short to reach the card, I'd suggest using a 2- …

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Re: Need help with Dune + AdLib GOLD

Posted on 2015-05-13, 00:55

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The CD-ROM version, which allows for separate "music" and "sound" devices, similarly lacks an AdLib Gold option for PCM playback. This seems pretty inexcusable, and while it's tempting to think that the "Tandy Sensation" option could work for the Gold, given use of the same Yamaha MMA chipset, alas …

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Re: Sound Blaster LIVE! Versions

Posted on 2015-05-13, 00:23

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If anyone has an informed guide on what to look for when shopping a LIVE card, it would be of great help. "The Sound Blaster Live! Book" is a great, inexpensive resource. It covers a breadth of topics, including general hardware differences between variants (up through the SB0060). I noticed that …

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Re: HELP MT-32 OLD + AWE64 Gold + 4D Sports Boxing = PROBLEM

Posted on 2015-04-07, 19:27

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But I don't understand this: So, the easy solution for playing this game (4D Boxing) with an older MT-32 is to just copy and use MT15.DRV from "4D Boxing." Probably you wanted to say "copy and use mt15.drv form 4D Driving "? (the other game of 4D series that use the MT-32 and doesn't have problems …

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2015-04-06, 20:11

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Shuihuzhuan Liangshan Yingxiong aka Water Edge: Liangshan Heroes Correct! Panda Entertainment's, "水滸傳梁山英雄," or, "Liangshan Heroes of Water Margin." http://www.symphoniae.com/misc/water_013.png http://www.symphoniae.com/misc/lu2.png http://www.symphoniae.com/misc/water_006.png I stumbled across this …

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2015-04-05, 02:29

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No, not Sango Fighter 2 (which I also own, interestingly enough...).

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2015-04-05, 01:32

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Procyon wrote: Shogun: Total War? No, sorry. I probably made this more difficult than it needed to be. This isn't much of a hint, but the game is an Asian side-scrolling beat 'em up, and the screenshot is from the ending sequence.

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2015-04-02, 13:22

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by Cloudschatze

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Well, good luck!

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2015-04-02, 01:40

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by Cloudschatze

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APB

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Re: Creative/Tandy Multimedia Audio Adapter, 849-3030

Posted on 2015-03-25, 22:22

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by Cloudschatze

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Were you aware of this a long time ago or was this a recent discovery? The funny thing is that I encountered information about the card on the Radio Shack support site several years ago, during my search for the joystick adapters (for use with a 1000 RLX-B system), but gave it little thought at the …

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Re: Creative/Tandy Multimedia Sound Adapter, 849-3030

Posted on 2015-03-25, 17:21

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This card does not draw -5V from the bus. 😀

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