d1stortion wrote:

One cap on that i815 board doesn't look so great...

Yeah, there are several that are bulging and need to be replaced.

This arrived yesterday.

For those who don't know, this is one of the best if not the best of the ISA slot era of soundcards, it's a 20bits digital with 2 hardware based Kurzweill synts one with sampler, it has two daughterboards plus an extra bracket for the digital I/O and two sockets for 72pin simms.
I wanted this card so bad, the box is a little bit worn off and it is ridiculously big but man it worth keeping it.

Two long awaited AT cases, cheap crappy, but I was looking for them for soooo long!... 😁 They both came with working power supplies.

Two motherboards came out of these AT cases above. A FIC 486-VIP-IO with Intel DX4100 CPU and 8MB RAM, and a PCchips M560 (I know... 😒) with 128MB RAM and Intel P233MMX. All working ncely as it seems. Paid 40 USD for the P5 case, 484 box came as free... 😁

Some other goodies came out of 486 box. A 1MB MX86200 (never heard of it before) graphics adapter, a 3com 3c900 combo NIC, a Quantum Trailblazer 810MB HDD:

Also some ebay purchases arrived.
A NEC XR385 (not for the below Yamaha, I know its too small for that DB)
A Yamaha Audician 32 (NIB 2.5 GBP)
An Adaptec AHA-1520B SCSI ISA (NIB 12 USD)
An ISA Serial port Adapter
A Raritan PS/2 to AT/Serial adapter
and some other small stuff

It's a bit of a shame that this Chinese guy isn't selling the XR385s anymore...

d1stortion wrote:

It's a bit of a shame that this Chinese guy isn't selling the XR385s anymore...

Still on Ebay, same price.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DB60XG-MIDI-Wavetable … =item3a72720b08

vetz wrote:

d1stortion wrote:

It's a bit of a shame that this Chinese guy isn't selling the XR385s anymore...

Still on Ebay, same price.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DB60XG-MIDI-Wavetable … =item3a72720b08

It doesn't show up in the search though.

I need to look into trying to fix mine. The first XR385 I received was missing a chip and a few other parts, so the guy sent a replacement but it's missing one of the 4 big caps (that I assume are for filtering). Didn't get that one replaced because I didn't notice it for awhile and at that point didn't want to bother the guy anymore. I want to take a cap from the first XR385 (which has all of them so if I screw up I have leeway) and transplant it, but I have no soldering skills period, let alone with surface mount stuff.

CapnCrunch53 wrote:

I need to look into trying to fix mine. The first XR385 I received was missing a chip and a few other parts, so the guy sent a replacement but it's missing one of the 4 big caps (that I assume are for filtering). Didn't get that one replaced because I didn't notice it for awhile and at that point didn't want to bother the guy anymore. I want to take a cap from the first XR385 (which has all of them so if I screw up I have leeway) and transplant it, but I have no soldering skills period, let alone with surface mount stuff.

This is what I would do:
1- Send it to an electronics repair shop.
2- In my city exists places where you can *cough* illegally *cough* mod your favorite console to play pirated games, they have SMD equipment for sure can do that for you almost free of charge.

If everything else should fail you can get the S-YXG50 softsynth for free, it's basically identical to that DB.

d1stortion wrote:

If everything else should fail you can get the S-YXG50 softsynth for free, it's basically identical to that DB.

But, does it run in real mode DOS like the DB?

vmunix wrote:

d1stortion wrote:

If everything else should fail you can get the S-YXG50 softsynth for free, it's basically identical to that DB.

But, does it run in real mode DOS like the DB?

No. Most games which profit from that kind of hardware should run fine in DOS window though. The only thing I'm not sure of is whether it would work in 9x (it's listed for 2000/XP), but being a WDM driver maybe...

d1stortion wrote:

If everything else should fail you can get the S-YXG50 softsynth for free, it's basically identical to that DB.

Is Yamaha giving away their software?

sprcorreia wrote:

d1stortion wrote:

If everything else should fail you can get the S-YXG50 softsynth for free, it's basically identical to that DB.

Is Yamaha giving away their software?

MS is. They used to host it on their site (or still do) as an update of some kind I think, but it's fully functional.

d1stortion wrote:

sprcorreia wrote:

d1stortion wrote:

If everything else should fail you can get the S-YXG50 softsynth for free, it's basically identical to that DB.

Is Yamaha giving away their software?

MS is. They used to host it on their site (or still do) as an update of some kind I think, but it's fully functional.

Any links? 😁

http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownl … ool/1403848.cab

I only tested it on XP, works like a charm there. Just install it with Add New Hardware. The 4 MB patch set is probably identical to the ROM on DB50XG and the like.

d1stortion wrote:

http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownl … ool/1403848.cab

I only tested it on XP, works like a charm there. Just install it with Add New Hardware. The 4 MB patch set is probably identical to the ROM on DB50XG and the like.

Good one! I'll try it. It says in the files that it's XP/2000. That's a nice freebie.

Intel above memory board...Sealed in box:

I hope it should work in my NEC V20 computer.

I couldn't stop laughing at sprcorreia's signature. This pretty much sums up our aspirations here.

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