PicoGUS - The $50 / €65 / £58 Sound Card That Only Does Everything

https://makertube.net/videos/watch/7d34c5d1-5b94-40e9-bbad-69c11df95792

Made an upbeat funky track with #radtracker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoNxMINgSqw

I didn't have a clear idea at the start so it was a challenge getting this to come together; it was good practice.

looking for tips on how to give #opl3 #opl2 #adlib #ymf262 kick drums more utility. I can also dedicate a channel to kick rather than the kit so it may be played chromatically, primarily, how could I get a downward sweep in pitch w/ this basic fm synthesis?

@sabi I mean, you just use an 8bit ISA slot and just extend it a few centimeters so I guess abusing some 40-pin IDE io GPIO Cables and connectors should be fine...

• Maybe use a Molex / FDD connector for the 12V & 5V power lines but unless you go with like PCI, VLB or PCIe you should be fine if you manage to keep the traces and cable lenghts equal within millimeters...

The #PicoGUS by @polpo does emulate a #AdLib quite well AFAIK, so yeah that should work out fine with the #NuXT...

• Bonus points if you include two #Gotek #FDD Emulators with #FlashFloppy into the case for maximum convenience, a fanless #PicoPSU & AC/DC adaptor and some #SD-#HDD Emulator for convenient data transfer as I don't expect you to want to cram another ISA card with a NIC into it and have an SMB 1.0 NAS available...

wanted to make a blog post about #adlib sound and how it was used by top artists, like JCH in "the alibi" cover (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGy1TKYy62I) but it is changing so fast/radically in that tune that pause/snapshot in browser wouldn't work

but notube.lol could give me the MP4 and #vlc can frame-step it to the point where I can see the new note coming so I think studying modulation will be fine.

Piano rendition of one of my old OPL2 FM compositions.

(Original Adlib version is included at the end.)

Another track for my fictional lost shareware:

The title screen for
MARSUPERNATURAL
Ep 1: CRECHE CRASH!!!
***SHAREWARE***

I'm really proud of this one - so proud that I'm worried I'm accidentally plagiarizing something

I've been playing around with "Adlib Visual Composer" (v1.51) in DOSBox.

My current project is the soundtrack for a fictional "lost shareware" game about the adventures of a Possum Witch set 65 Million Years Ago:
MARSUPIALNATURAL

These are all rough drafts and working titles - right now I'm just using the STANDARD.BNK for my sound fonts :)

The card that started it all. And by it I mean the retro soundcard revival. This one was reverse engineered by @tubetime and it still features the illegitimate AdLib logo. I assembled it myself and even drilled holes for the volume control and headphone jack.
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #adlib

Gosh, it's nice to have choices. (Real hardware)
#DOSGaming
#PCSpeaker #AdLib #SoundBlaster #OPL #RolandMT32 #MT32

Etiquette appears to include an #introduction. Hi. Hello. How do you do? I'm Hollis. I used to make freeware #DOS games. Then I got older. Now I wait to retire so I can... make freeware DOS games? Professional #webdev & #devsec. Healthy #horror appetite born of unsupervised access to 80s VHS rental. #NewEngland. Sometimes I take my #motorbike to find #cryptids at night, later #writing about it in #nanowrimo