furan wrote:

I've been souping up a Libretto 70CT for DOS games. Real DOS games on real hardware. I love the VHS size of the Libretto, and al […]
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I've been souping up a Libretto 70CT for DOS games. Real DOS games on real hardware. I love the VHS size of the Libretto, and although the speaker is mono, the headphone jack is stereo. It has a nice Yamaha OPL3-SAX (datasheet says 3, toshiba says 2).

Well I wanted wavetable sound so I spent some time investigating and prototyped it with the DreamBlaster S1, since it's so cheap. I have a nice wavetable board I got that probably came out of a karaoke machine in Taiwan that sounds "just right." I'll be embedding the whole thing in the PC card port, since I'm using CF on the IDE side and have a cool method coming for Internet/shell.

Apologies for vertical video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjrwAJyVJ-c

Very cool!

Can you explain the bit about the wavetable board that came from a karaoke machine though? I've never heard of such a thing. What machines had these and are they actually compatible with PC soundcards?

This seems to be an old-ish post, but this is extremely cool! I'd love to do something similar with my Libretto and one of the tiny wavetable boards from Serdashop, do you think this would be possible with, say, and X2SE wavetable board? And do you happen to still have the pinouts handy for this project?