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Resound 2 alternatives?

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First post, by Nitroraptor53

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I love the Resound 2 but I want Digital sound sampling. Problem being; I can't afford this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sound-Blaster-Pro-2- … ng/174409282114?
Are there any clone cards that have Digital Sampling? Thanks in advance!

Reply 2 of 8, by maxtherabbit

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Tiido wrote on 2020-10-01, 00:50:

LABS' BlasterBoard would be a good choice I imagine.

For MCA?

Reply 3 of 8, by Nitroraptor53

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It isn't for MCA... but I'll ask him if there's any possible way to adapt it to an MCA bus.

Reply 4 of 8, by cyclone3d

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You can always use a logic analyzer to capture the digital output directly from the OPL3 chip.

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Reply 5 of 8, by Tiido

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maxtherabbit wrote on 2020-10-01, 00:54:

For MCA?

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For MCA I am not aware of anything, except maybe TubeTimeUS might be conjuring up something since a lot of work had been put into getting MCA bus conquered by that guy...

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Reply 6 of 8, by matze79

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Why not just hook up a DAC to LPT, you can play Wave in Windows and use a couple of Mod Players, Trackers, even MP3 Player, Wav Players, and a Handful of Games.
With some variants even Stereo is possible.

But i would recommend a Active Device with own Bus Driver and own Power Source.
Otherwise you will always get bits of noise from the Computer.

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Reply 7 of 8, by Nitroraptor53

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matze79 wrote on 2020-10-01, 18:14:

Why not just hook up a DAC to LPT, you can play Wave in Windows and use a couple of Mod Players, Trackers, even MP3 Player, Wav Players, and a Handful of Games.
With some variants even Stereo is possible.

I'm not sure what you mean by hooking up a Digital-to-analogue converter to the printer port. It there a specific one for the parallel port? I'm no expert to vintage computing so idk.

Reply 8 of 8, by Oetker

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Nitroraptor53 wrote on 2020-10-02, 01:14:
matze79 wrote on 2020-10-01, 18:14:

Why not just hook up a DAC to LPT, you can play Wave in Windows and use a couple of Mod Players, Trackers, even MP3 Player, Wav Players, and a Handful of Games.
With some variants even Stereo is possible.

I'm not sure what you mean by hooking up a Digital-to-analogue converter to the printer port. It there a specific one for the parallel port? I'm no expert to vintage computing so idk.

Yes a Covox clone, there's info enough on Vogons. There's also parallel port OPL boards, might be easier to get than a Resound MCA.