Apologies to my British viewers for the horrible accent. If you want to grab yourself a PicoGUS check out the links below! Project Page: github.com/polpo/picogus Buy a PicoGUS: picog.us/
Just because it makes me laugh "If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music"
I've been waffling on getting one of these for a while, and this video convinced me to get on the waitlist for one. It's probably the most cost-effective way for me to get some hands-on time with a Gravis Ultrasound!
I don’t necessarily think that the creators of these projects are exploiting the community at all, it’s just very clear that at the low volume these people can operate at the economy of scale is not kicking in. They gotta break even at least, but it doesn’t mean I have two hundred dollars or more for an Orpheus.
I agree. These types of things are high effort projects and I think there are much better ways to make a dishonest buck if that is your shtick. However, every time I've covered clones in the past there are always a few people in the comments who make that claim.
The GUS people were the "beat the system" types but they were quite annoyed with games that didn't support their alternative way of choosing a sound card. I was pretty happy owning an SBpro that played every game out there.
Yeah if you were a gamer back then a Sound Blaster made way more sense. Easy to set up, high compatibility and the sound was good enough. The GUS worked out well for musicians and the games that supported it though. However, I must say its fun messing with it now.
RP2040 and ESP32 (with FabGL) have been powering a lot of cool, inexpensive hardware lately. I'm glad more people get to experience a GUS now(I already did, back in the 90's). The ESP32 by itself is a decent PC emulator and the latest P4 version of that looks targeted for more performance with some 2D acceleration, so perhaps we'll get some video cards or single-board microcomputer designs exploiting that...
Thanks for the video! Regarding Descent, I had a similar problem when using Descent with an external Roland Midi device. It crashed during startup. After I downloaded a newer version from the internet it worked just fine. The version I am using now is 1.4a from May 2nd 1995. I do not have a PicoGUS yet, so I cannot confirm if that works but maybe it fixes your issue :)
I recently got one after being on the waitlist for a couple of months. Sure, they are sold out at present, but there's no reason to believe that they won't be available in the future. Moreover, the project is open source and anyone is free to build one themselves. Even if polpo decides not to create any more, someone else on Tindie could sell them in the future. This video is hardly a joke.
If they can get nukedOPL running on it it'd be pretty flawless. I'm sure it's going to make a lot of people really happy, but personally I don't really see the point. If I'm going to use emulation I'd just use DOSBOX on modem hardware
Im aiming to regain a Tandy 1000 RL like i had growing up, and if i do this and a floppy drive emulator, and i think i would be set! plus it has a usb game port, so maybe get some NES USB controller and pop in it for old XT Games (which were usually two button).
Finding games that are said to be compatible but don't work for me is the authentic experience. Are your sure it is emulation? That sounds just like how I remember it.
@@z00k Looks like he is no longer selling via Tindie, but they are still being produced and sold to other storefronts depending on your country. Check picog.us/ to see where you can buy one.
Thanks for video. As the wiki states, doesn't work on an IBM 286 PS/2 8mhz computer. Needs faster, like 386+. However, maybe I can program the pico to emulate something like a MT-32 on a fast PC and then try again with the 286.
Just confirmed that you can flash the picogus on a 386+ computer and then use that flashed picgus on a 286 computer. Listening to games using the MT-32 flash on an IBM PS/2 286 8mhz machine
Thanks! I think I did install the Gravis PnP patch(prepgame) from when I had the GUS clone installed. That might be messing it up though honestly. I should probably just do a fresh install of Descent and see if it works.
I mean I cant objectively complain about this, and it isn't exactly unprecedented for expansion cards to be more powerful than their host system. And I dont care what the card is doing under the hood if it sounds like THAT!
I hear ya. More are being made though! Sign up for the waitlist and hopefully you can get one when the next batch comes around. Unlike repros, there is no shortage of the parts used for this so hopefully stocking issues will ease up as time goes on.
Can the card play Wizardry 7 Soundblaster sounds properly? This game relied on a real OPL3 chip and used some errors in it to produce correct sounds. It would be very interesting to know if this card can do that. The DosBox does not work but PCEM and x86box emulating real soundcards work. I will get such a card myself also, thanks
Would it be possible to use two in one machine, or should I also look into this and PicoMem for the Adlib portion? I only ask, as I'll be getting my Amiga 2000 with 286 bridgeboard repaired, and want to have both Adlib and GUS at the same time. Just wish I had a 386 bridgeboard, so I could run ScreamTracker 3 to make songs with GUS and Adlib at the same time.
Hello! Sorry for the late reply. I think Ian Scott(the project leader) said in a comment that two cards at once should be possible. You might want to check with him on the specifics though. @ianpolpo
A few things have been updated since this video. All the modes are now contained in the picogus.uf2 firmware. You can now switch modes instantly using PSUSINIT.EXE /mode without the need to reflash everytime you want to switch.
