Oddware: 1994 Lxycon Sound Booster sound card 

Agreed, I had a high school friend in the mid 90's who wrote a DOS.exe file(really just a batch file), that made it super easy for us in our computer lab to install just about any IDE CD-ROM drive using OAKCDROM.SYS

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Good news!

Alec J what!

Fact: Dacia is a romanian car company.

@@catalinnic9356 Was a Romanian company, now it's owned by Renault, and its cars use (old) Renault technology. They're honest, cheap cars, though.

@@8bitter696 Europe's cheapest car

From LGR? Sounds normal to me.

Woosh

Well truth be told this kind of stuff is more Phil's territory than Clint's. Man I watch way to many retro computer guys on RU-vid.

Older AT style cases switched the mains rather than being a soft-on. They actually switched both H and N lines, which meant four wires from the PSU to the switch. Real fun if you mixed up the orientation of the terminals.

Yes, i actually knew that, i've just not seen such a big switch on a computer before. *SOME* AT powesupplies had the switch built into the housing of the PSU, however, and used a long plastic rod to actuate the switch, which in my opinion was a better way of doing things.

ANSI.SYS?

Yes, via COLSET and KEEPFONT. I created the font myself based on an existing sans serif font.

The first DOS/Win 3.1 computer one of my friends in middle school ever got had one of these cards in it, and 1/2 our games either sounded like shit, or just would not work at all. finally we begged his father to take us to our local computer store, and get him a Sound Blaster 16 for his b-day, and all was golden happy times after that install, but man I can remember his father grumbling on the way out the store though looking at the receipt lol!

Yes, it was a con product.

luxembourger I think I remember it had pretty nice sounding wavetable midi synth but apart from that, it was pretty incompatible with most DOS stuff and the Soundblaster emulation barely worked.

I had the same card in the P60 in '95 and back then all games I tried were working fine - which titles does the card fuck up? I even have one "resting" in a drawer and used it a few weeks ago to play some Warcraft I and DoomII.

Is that true? Was there a relationship between Advance Logic and Realtek Semiconductor?

At this point I'd even recap stuff this old even if it's *not* yet causing trouble. My 386DX40 motherboard ran fine, but I still replaced all of its little electrolytics and some of the tantalums that were seemingly randomly used in place of electrolytics (?) with new ones (Nichicon, Panasonic). On the other hand I have a HP Vectra VE Pentium 1 machine that was super flaky with no visual signs of problems, even though every single SMD electrolytic on the motherboard was bad. Some were even completely open circuit as if they weren't there... no wonder this thing was super unstable

you have ESR tester , there is no need to recap , ESR will tell you if its bad , shootgun recap is something i never do , for one thing good caps are expensive , 2nd its not needed , i fix Electronics a lot, in my country im known ad Audio Doctor i refurbish good amplifiers and audio gear because im a producer for 15 years and i can analyze the sound and set up everything to its former glory , like Distortion , Noise floor , tonal character ,balance etc... So take it from me , there is no need for shotgun recap .

I was wondering why it seemed so familiar. That explains pretty much everything. Is the new show they're on any good?

The Grand Tour? The first season was kinda meh but part of that was due to having to skirt around a bunch of legal things with the BBC. The second season just wrapped up and was absolutely excellent. Highly recommend the second season.

since it has a Windows Sound System built in

In the old days I would have said toss that junk, but now with the prices of old hardware, and how hard it's getting find good working hardware I agree doing a recap job to even keep it as a backup card is not a bad idea what so ever.

caps arent to blame for everything!!!!

A PlayTape player -- that's a short-lived audio tape format from the late '60s and early '70s. Techmoan did a video about it.

@@vwestlife Thanks, I very well may have seen Techmoan's video about it.

I did say the _later_ Sound Blaster 16s, not necessarily the early (pre-Plug and Play) ones.

Ah, sorry. I thought you meant later as in, the SB16 was the *later* card released by Creative.

I've been doing computer repair since the late 80's as a kid, and in all that time I only come across those combo drives a handful of times, so they are for sure not common to find, but would be really handy for building a retro gaming PC these days.

If I could find one with a USB interface that would be awesome but I don't have anything on 5.25 disks. just 3.5 disks. I have a PC that a friend of mine was throwing out. I kept it for the floppy drive not just need to slap the hard drive back in it and a monitor which I can use my little 19" LCD TV and a keyboard and mouse. Got a WiFi card but I don't know how good that will be or if the PC can even run today's internet. Might just use it to get whatever data off my 3.5 floppy disks.

modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=112554

Works in Dull Inspiron

Sadly,it will burn right up dut to the clock speed and heat combo

I forgot to add, that the later SoundBlaster 16 is backwards compatible to the SoundBlaster Pro 2.0, so once again, games programmed to the twin OPL2 chips of the original SoundBlaster Pro 1.0 will not play in stereo either. And this also effects SB16 clone cards.

The software I was using does play in stereo on a SB Pro 2.0. That difference only applies to the FM MIDI sound anyway, not digitized sound, which MOD players use.

Start with detergent and water: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lR8vJXNSHs8.html

Alec J Coincidence? I think not!

Basically everyone?

Yes.

patriotbarrow nope

Thanks for the info. I'm used to hearing 4-operator FM synthesis on real SBPro and SB16 cards with the Voyetra SuperSAPI Windows 3.x driver. 2-operator FM sounds much more wimpy in comparison.

@@vwestlife I tried running Voyetra SuperSAPI driver on my ALS100 in Win3.1 and it didn't quite sound right. Adlib Tracker files play just fine on DOS, so I'm not sure why.

I just found out why it didn't sound right. I had to set the MIDI Mapper to "SB16 Ext FM" instead of "SB16 All FM". So the verdict is, you CAN use Voyetra on ALS100/FT6116-100. I also tested percussion mode and it passed with flying colors. Too bad the noise floor is abysmal...

NMB RT101+

cheers : )

actually more specifically the one around 14-15 minutes in

It's actually a MOD file, not a MIDI file: modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=49839

Thank you! My bad on the file extension mix up

I don't know. The Realtek HD audio that is built into my modern computers sounds fine to me. But sound cards can add extra features like digital audio input and output, surround sound, etc.

It really depends on the motherboard audio chipset and if the board has all the connections you want. 99% of the time the onboard audio, especially on midrange/higher end gaming motherboards is excellent and there's no need for a dedicated soundcard. However if you have a budget motherboard, say without a digital audio output (pretty rare these days to be honest), a soundcard might prove useful. More expensive dedicated soundcards may also have inputs that the motherboard doesn't have if you have a need of them.

STFUImBigBoned Not really... I use a Sound Blaster Z because my onboard sound is dead, but it is not that much better than Realtek. For fans of extreme bass it might be great, as it has a good bass boost feature, and a Dynamic Range extender which sounds great. But if you have a good Onboard solution, first get a good pair of headphones like the DT990 Pro and maybe a little Tube preamp. But it is very good for driving headphones with a high impedance like the 990 Pro(without the need of a preamp), as most of the Realtek solutions are too weak for that.

It all depends on your needs. the output on my last few motherboards have not been enough to drive some of my higher end headphones to their full potential, so I got a $28 ASUS Xonar DG sound card to drive them without needing an external headphone amp/dac, so if you say have some headphones that are not sounding right, and you know they could be putting out more louder, and clear highs, mids, and lows then something like a Asus xonar DG(older PCI card) or Asus Xonar DGX(the pci-e version for the same card) along with the unified drivers for Windows 10 can provide you with a really nice boost in audio quality, otherwise I'll be honest, and say yeah most onboard HD audio solutions are good enough for most people these days. So again if you are not liking the output levels of your onboard sound, and can find a deal on an ASUS Xonar DGX soundcard then go for it, as most current motherboards do sadly in my opinion lack a legacy pci slot, so you will need a PCI-E card.

The test during installation only plays the sound check once, in mono. The MZTTEST program is the one that tests both channels.

Which one?

VWestlife the one at 16:10. Thank you for replying, the song is very catchy.

Ng Pei Sin - ProLogic 303

Pentium started at 60Mhz and 66Mhz. 486 went up to 100Mhz under the 486 moniker and 133Mhz IIRC with "586" names attached to them. I have an AMD 5x86 133Mhz which is basically just a 486.

AMD and I think Cyrix also had 120 MHz 486DX4 chips. AMD's 5x86 was really just an improved 486DX4 (in fact, an early version of it was called the "486DX5") and ran at 133 MHz, with a 160 MHz version planned but never released because it was actually faster than AMD's K5 chip. Cyrix's 5x86 was a scaled-down Pentium-class chip, significantly more advanced than AMD's 5x86, although it had more compatibility problems, and ran at 100 or 120 MHz.

Robb the 100 Mhz dx4 is really rare.

Lassi Kinnunen The Am5x86-133 P75 was very popular. I knew a lot of people with systems based on it.