I wanted to ask about everyones fav soundchip :3 That's all, thanks!
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I wanted to ask about everyones fav soundchip :3 That's all, thanks!

Sound Blaster 16

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On 04 Mar 2025, Vintholdt said the following...

I wanted to ask about everyones fav soundchip :3 That's all, thanks!

are you mary4? heh

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Re: Re: Favourite sound chip?
By: Exodus to Vintholdt on Tue Mar 04 2025 09:06 pm

I wanted to ask about everyones fav soundchip :3 That's all, thanks!

Sound Blaster 16

That's a sound card, not a sound chip.. I thought the Sound Blaster 16 used a couple different sound chips, but it looks like it mainly just used the Yamaha YMF262 OPL-3 chip.

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ZX Spectrum bleeper, hope that counts.

Seriously I like the simplicity of the Spectrum and it's what I grew up with.

Cheers, Dundarach

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Re: Re: Favourite sound chip?
By: fusion to Vintholdt on Tue Mar 04 2025 11:56 pm

No? We just exchanged a few words about tracker music, LOL. I am just also interested a lil in retrocomputing but not THAAAAT much.
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OPL3 GANG!

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are you mary4? heh

i am mary4! xD

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Re: Re: Favourite sound chip?
By: Exodus to Vintholdt on Tue Mar 04 2025 09:06 pm

I wanted to ask about everyones fav soundchip :3 That's all, thanks!

Sound Blaster 16

That's a sound card, not a sound chip.. I thought the Sound Blaster 16 used a couple different sound chips, but it looks like it mainly just
used the Yamaha YMF262 OPL-3 chip.

OPL3 GANG!!!!! :DDD MY 286 HAS AN OPL3 ! :D

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OPL3 GANG!!!!! :DDD MY 286 HAS AN OPL3 ! :D

My 286 has a PicoGUS, so an AdLib, or Tandy 3-Voice, or CMS/GameBlaster, or Sound Blaster, or Gravis UltraSound when the situation calls for it.

My 286 is rather special though, because it ALSO has a Yamaha YM2612 and Ti SN76489 PSG inside!

Can you guess how or why? :)
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My 286 has a PicoGUS, so an AdLib, or Tandy 3-Voice, or CMS/GameBlaster, or Sound Blaster, or Gravis UltraSound when the situation calls for it.

NICE!

My 286 is rather special though, because it ALSO has a Yamaha YM2612 and Ti SN76489 PSG inside!

Can you guess how or why? :)

picogus? also opn2 srsly? MEGADRIVE 16 BIT SOUND

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picogus? also opn2 srsly? MEGADRIVE 16 BIT SOUND

PicoGUS is a software defined ISA card, powered by the RP2040
microcontroller (aka Raspbery Pi Pico), it emulates all the sound cards I mentioned, and does a few more things too!

And yes, Mega Drive sound! That's a clue to what makes my 286 special! :)

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Retroswim wrote to mary4 <=-

My 286 is rather special though, because it ALSO has a Yamaha YM2612
and Ti SN76489 PSG inside!

I've told the story before about a practical joke we played on a QA
manager at a software company I worked at years back. He was responsible
for running the lab, this was back in the 486/DOS/SB16 days. No plug and
play, you had to jumper IRQs and ports.

He was a bit of a jerk, so the sound guy took his install disks and
changed the test sounds. Added a stutter, so it sounded like the
settings were conflicting with other hardware.

"perperperperforming irrrrrrq testestestestest", sounding like Max
Headroom.

So, even when he had the settings right, it sounded wrong.

We sprung the trap, and after an hour or so, the obscenities got louder
and louder. We offered to help, swapped the driver disks, and all worked
as expected. Walked away openly questioning his ability to run a QA lab.

Aside: These were fun days - software companies traded titles to make
sure everything worked with them, so tech support/qa had hundreds of
software titles you could install and play with. And, they all had our
software in return.



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I love this story hahaha! Thanks for sharing! :D

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Re: Re: Favourite sound chip?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Retroswim on Wed Mar 26 2025 08:30 pm

I've told the story before about a practical joke we played on a QA manager at a software company I worked at years back. He was responsible for running the lab, this was back in the 486/DOS/SB16 days. No plug and play, you had to jumper IRQs and ports.

He was a bit of a jerk, so the sound guy took his install disks and changed the test sounds. Added a stutter, so it sounded like the settings were conflicting with other hardware.

"perperperperforming irrrrrrq testestestestest", sounding like Max Headroom.

So, even when he had the settings right, it sounded wrong.

We sprung the trap, and after an hour or so, the obscenities got louder and louder. We offered to help, swapped the driver disks, and all worked as expected. Walked away openly questioning his ability to run a QA lab.

That's pretty good. :)

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And yes, Mega Drive sound! That's a clue to what makes my 286 special! :)

:3 yes!

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I've told the story before about a practical joke we played on a QA manager at a software company I worked at years back. He was responsible for running the lab, this was back in the 486/DOS/SB16 days. No plug and play, you had to jumper IRQs and ports.

He was a bit of a jerk, so the sound guy took his install disks and changed the test sounds. Added a stutter, so it sounded like the
settings were conflicting with other hardware.

"perperperperforming irrrrrrq testestestestest", sounding like Max Headroom.

So, even when he had the settings right, it sounded wrong.

We sprung the trap, and after an hour or so, the obscenities got louder and louder. We offered to help, swapped the driver disks, and all worked as expected. Walked away openly questioning his ability to run a QA lab.

Aside: These were fun days - software companies traded titles to make
sure everything worked with them, so tech support/qa had hundreds of software titles you could install and play with. And, they all had our software in return.

lol nice story! <3

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:3 yes!

My special computer is a Sega TeraDrive. A 286 system co-developed by IBM
and Sega. It's a 10MHz 286 based on the IBM PS/1 2011, but with a complete
Sega MegaDrive on the motherboard. Unlike the Amstrad Mega-PC, the two
systems are linked through a bus arbitrator.

After setting some registers and doing some port writes, you can access the 68000's memory space from the PC (including accessing the sound chips, VDP
and controller ports), and likewise, you can access the PC's memory and IO space from the MegaDrive (including the VGA chip and any devices on the ISA bus).

I wrote a demo showcasing these abilities last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjg3gmTo4WA

:)
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I've told the story before about a practical joke we played on a QA manager at a software company I worked at years back. He was responsible for running the lab, this was back in the 486/DOS/SB16 days. No plug and play, you had to jumper IRQs and ports.

He was a bit of a jerk, so the sound guy took his install disks and changed the test sounds. Added a stutter, so it sounded like the
settings were conflicting with other hardware.

"perperperperforming irrrrrrq testestestestest", sounding like Max Headroom.

So, even when he had the settings right, it sounded wrong.

We sprung the trap, and after an hour or so, the obscenities got louder and louder. We offered to help, swapped the driver disks, and all worked as expected. Walked away openly questioning his ability to run a QA lab.

Holy crap that's funny as hell!!

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Vintholdt wrote to All:

I wanted to ask about everyones fav soundchip :3 That's all, thanks!
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MOS 6581 / MOS 8580 aka "SID" still is my #1 !!

but in recent years, I've also become quite fond of the AY-3-8910 as I'm
using that one with my RC2014


Greetings, Niels Haedecke

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My special computer is a Sega TeraDrive. A 286 system co-developed by IBM and Sega. It's a 10MHz 286 based on the IBM PS/1 2011, but with a
complete Sega MegaDrive on the motherboard. Unlike the Amstrad Mega-PC, the two systems are linked through a bus arbitrator.

!!!!! YOU GOT THE ULTIMATE 16 BIT BEAST!!!!
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OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!
Re> After setting some registers
and doing some port writes, you can access Re> the 68000's memory space from the PC (including accessing the sound Re> chips, VDP and controller ports), and likewise, you can access the PC's Re> memory and IO space from the MegaDrive (including the VGA chip and any Re> devices on the ISA bus).

WHOA

I wrote a demo showcasing these abilities last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjg3gmTo4WA

!!!!!

:)

:3

SRIOUSLY YOU GOT ONE OF THE MACHINES I NEED IN MY 16 BIT COLLECTION!!!


SERIOUSLY AWESOME!!!!
:3

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