First post, by Totempole
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I bought two of these QS3000a Cards about a year or two ago. What grabbed me was the "XG" logo printed on the card. The thing is, it doesn't appear to have any association with Yamaha, or "XG" for that matter. It has what appears to be an SB-Link headder like a YMF724 card has, but the chip doesn't seem to be Yamaha at all. Installation is fairly straightforward, and DOS game compatibility is very good within Windows. However, it has no General Midi support at all, and comes only with a "QSound" utility.
It has an FM synth, which mentions OPL3, but it's not genuine, in fact it's very inaccurate when playing midi files in Windows at least. It actually misses notes in Passport.mid.
Does anyone know where this card originates, and how it was able to carry the "XG" logo if it has no support for it? Was it perhaps bundled with an "XG" soft synth on the original driver CD perhaps?
Thanks in advance for shedding any light on this. 😀
My Retro Gaming PC:
Pentium III 450MHz Katmai Slot 1
Transcend 256MB PC133
Gigabyte GA-6BXC
MSI Geforce 2 MX400 AGP
Ensoniq ES1371 PCI
Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA