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Which 3rd sound card 486 DX2 66

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hello, Working on a killer 486 ISA VLB system for ultimate sound. I have an Adlib gold, GUS clone and need a 3rd sound board to host a MT32 Duaghter Board. This is because the gusnwill have a dream daughter board, the adlib gold will have the surround d …
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Serdashop OPL3LPT on my Toshiba T1960CT

VCFed about 4 months ago

So I just got my OPL3LPT from serdashop in the mail yesterday evening. I spent today playing with it and testing functions. I think I have the hang of patching game files in order to get the basic ADLIB game sound working. I have questions however for anyo …

Compaq LTE Elite 486 4/75C - upgrades?

VCFed about 5 months ago

Hi Everyone, I'm a happy new owner of this almost 30 years old computer, looking forward for a couple of upgrades: 1 - the screen, its the one with the two slides on the right, brightness and contrast, hence it has a lot of ghosting: Is there a possibility …

eBay buyer using freight forwarder and lying?

VCFed about 10 months ago

I sold a AdLib card today, and I had the shipping locations as USA only. Then after the auction ended and I was preparing to ship the item I noticed that the buyer was having the sound card shipped to a freight forwarder in California called Shipito (they …

I Bought an 1987 Adlib card at Goodwill

VCFed about 10 months ago

So I've only recently gotten into vintage computing and collecting. At this point it's more of a thought process than an actual collection lol I mostly have peripherals, and windows XP era stuff. However, today I came across this Adlib card in goodwill fo …

System Specs • 386 DX-40 multi-sound card build (5 sound cards!)

Vogons about 10 months ago

Filename386 Setup.jpgFile size757.16 KiBViews251 viewsCPU: Am386DX-40MB: BC3486F w/ 128k cacheRAM: 8 MBDisk Drives: 3.5" and 5.25" Floppy drivesCD Drive: Mitsumi 4x CD-ROMFixed Storage: 256 MB Cisco Systems CompactFlash + CF-IDE AdapterController Card: Bi …

Sound • In search for max sound compatibility :)

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi Everyone,As the title says, I am looking to have the most compatibility for sound options in my retro system.It is a Compaq 486/66, and use it to play PC games from the early 80's to the mid 90's.I have recently acquired an Orpheus II soundcard (absolu …
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Sound • The Cycles (1989) game music on Roland MT-32

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi folks, I have recorded a short clip of The Cycles with its classic music on my Roland MT-32. Originally I wanted to record it on my old DOS PC, but I dont have the means for that so it was recorded using DOSBox + Munt. Maybe someone else liked the musi …

Sound • Cool things to do with an Adlib Gold/GoldLib

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hey, lucky owners of an Adlib Gold, what about sharing things to do?Of course Adlib Gold screams "Dune" to almost anyone. And I just checked a major item of my bucket list: completing the game on my 486DX33, CRT and GoldLib. It was absolutely glorious. I …

Sound • Sound Blaster 2.0 DMA Jumper Question

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi everyone!I have a Sound Blaster 2.0 CT1350B sound card in my Tandy 1000 TL/2. It’s working great, but it does render the Tandy DAC inoperative. The computer freezes anytime I try to use the Tandy DAC now. I’m assuming it’s a DMA conflict as th …

Sound • Four sound card setup in a 386 (Adlib Gold, LAPC-I, Game Blaster CMS, Yamaha YMF719)

Vogons about 10 months ago

I've been experimenting with this multiple sound card setup in a 386 desktop system. My goal was to see how many audio options I could cram inside the case in the available ISA slots. At minimum, I wanted both an Adlib Gold and Roland LACP-I and then see …

Sound • First MIDI compatible sound card?

Vogons about 10 months ago

I'll attempt to write a short history of PC sound, which I'm sure is missing something which in turn is related to my ultimate question:- First (ignoring the PC Speaker, PCjr sound, and the parallel port DACs) was the Roland MPU series, a subset of which …

Software • Lost in Time CD version - wont run on an old PC

Vogons about 11 months ago

I have found several topics about this game here, but all involve DOSBox. I downloade four "different" versions of the CD version of the game and while they run okay in DOSBox,they all lock up on my Pentium 75 just after executing it. A black screen and p …

Sound • The Adlib company had a strange attitude towards games

Vogons about 11 months ago

This is from Bobby Prince's blog, an excerpt from a letter he wrote in April 1991:[About this same time, I spoke with someone at AdLib and was told they were going to be in Atlanta for the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) convention in a few wee …

Sound • Issues with ESS1868F playing midi in Windows98SE

Vogons about 11 months ago

Heyho!After having used DOS on my machine so far, it was finally time to do some stuff on Windows 98SE. But while the soundcard worked fine in DOS, it seems to have issues in Windows.In Windows itself Sound playbay is perfectly fine, this also includes pl …

Sound • Possible to use SoundBlaster AWE64 and Adlib card?

Vogons about 11 months ago

Is it possible to install both a SoundBlaster AWE64 (CT4380) and Adlib card (replica) into the same machine?I'm hoping to use the Adlib for the authentic OPL2 music but also the SoundBlaster for sound effects, etc.It looks like the AWE64 PnP settings do n …
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Gallery 📸 • My upgraded system

IBM PCjr forum about 2 years ago

I just finished upgrading my system pictured below! I gutted one of my Racore expansion units and used the chassis to add a Gotek using a 3Flop board. The switch in front toggles the boot drive (up for Gotek/down for the 5.25). This system has the Tandy a …