LGR - AdLib Sound Card - Part 2: Line-Out Audio Samples
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Date: 2022-04-14
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KuraIthys
Ah, good old Yamaha. XD
The old soundcards, the mega drive, and I still have a really old Yamaha keyboard.
Not to mention I used to mess around with the YXG 50 and 100 software synthesizers.
And of course, long after midi stopped being a thing the majority still cared about, Yamaha extended the concept of wavetable synthesis to the point that they could emulate singing. (the technology otherwise known as vocaloids)
The YXG 100 seriously tempts me to install windows 98 (even if only on a virtual PC, just to hear it again.
The Roland synthesizer that's been in windows since windows 95 is truly awful by comparison.
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Ah, good old Yamaha. XD
The old soundcards, the mega drive, and I still have a really old Yamaha keyboard.
Not to mention I used to mess around with the YXG 50 and 100 software synthesizers.
And of course, long after midi stopped being a thing the majority still cared about, Yamaha extended the concept of wavetable synthesis to the point that they could emulate singing. (the technology otherwise known as vocaloids)
The YXG 100 seriously tempts me to install windows 98 (even if only on a virtual PC, just to hear it again.
The Roland synthesizer that's been in windows since windows 95 is truly awful by comparison.
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mocthezuma
-MrShot97 You should have played Hero's Quest/Quest for Glory, Conquest of Camelot, Conquest of Longbow, The Colonels Bequest, Dagger of Amon Ra, Space Quest 1, 2 & 3, Kings Quest 5, 6 and 7, Police Quest 1, 2, 3&4, Larry 1, 2&3, Codename Iceman, GABRIEL KNIGHT, The Incredible Machine (even more, jones in the fast lane, Castle of Dr Brain and Half Life: Counter Strike. Must have been the company to make most good games in most varied genres. More so than Lucasarts at least. They did Nascar too. :)
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-MrShot97 You should have played Hero's Quest/Quest for Glory, Conquest of Camelot, Conquest of Longbow, The Colonels Bequest, Dagger of Amon Ra, Space Quest 1, 2 & 3, Kings Quest 5, 6 and 7, Police Quest 1, 2, 3&4, Larry 1, 2&3, Codename Iceman, GABRIEL KNIGHT, The Incredible Machine (even more, jones in the fast lane, Castle of Dr Brain and Half Life: Counter Strike. Must have been the company to make most good games in most varied genres. More so than Lucasarts at least. They did Nascar too. :)
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mocthezuma
-MrShot97 I don't really like King's Quest either, so I'm not going to defend it. It got better with the remake, and it's still a classic, but not one of my big ones. It's quite an early game as well and like all new things Sierra needed time and attempts to fail and get better and eventually get things up to decent quality. Same with Lucasarts. Loom isn't exactly fantastic. I like Maniac and Zak, but they're both far, far behind the standards of monkey 1&2, Indy 3&Fate and Full Throttle(&SnM.
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-MrShot97 I don't really like King's Quest either, so I'm not going to defend it. It got better with the remake, and it's still a classic, but not one of my big ones. It's quite an early game as well and like all new things Sierra needed time and attempts to fail and get better and eventually get things up to decent quality. Same with Lucasarts. Loom isn't exactly fantastic. I like Maniac and Zak, but they're both far, far behind the standards of monkey 1&2, Indy 3&Fate and Full Throttle(&SnM.
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mocthezuma
-MrShot97 as mentioned, Obviously you never played zak, or maniac mansion. The sierra games changed gradually as did the lucas arts ones. I like both companies. I think Sierra made some brilliant games. Especially Hero's Quest/Quest for Glory which mixed role playing elements into the strange adventure setting. Lucas Arts had some brilliant games as well. I think my favorite game of all times is The secret of monkey island, but they also made some crap games, although that happened later on.
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-MrShot97 as mentioned, Obviously you never played zak, or maniac mansion. The sierra games changed gradually as did the lucas arts ones. I like both companies. I think Sierra made some brilliant games. Especially Hero's Quest/Quest for Glory which mixed role playing elements into the strange adventure setting. Lucas Arts had some brilliant games as well. I think my favorite game of all times is The secret of monkey island, but they also made some crap games, although that happened later on.
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Shot97
-Shiqna1 Sierra made bad ports, I think they made bad games too. Anytime I bought a Sierra game I felt ripped off. Thank God for Lucas Arts. The only game I had on my Amiga that the PC blew away was Wing Commander. I had plenty of others that either looked identical in the VGA era or looked worse but only side by side. But still back in the day playing Wing Commander looking bad (try the SNES though, yuk) running slow but sounding great. Loved it. I envied no one. Star Trek 25th CD- Then I did.
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-Shiqna1 Sierra made bad ports, I think they made bad games too. Anytime I bought a Sierra game I felt ripped off. Thank God for Lucas Arts. The only game I had on my Amiga that the PC blew away was Wing Commander. I had plenty of others that either looked identical in the VGA era or looked worse but only side by side. But still back in the day playing Wing Commander looking bad (try the SNES though, yuk) running slow but sounding great. Loved it. I envied no one. Star Trek 25th CD- Then I did.
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Shot97
-mocthezuma I beat them eventually, I just didnt agree with their design philosophy. They thought if you zoomed through a game fast you didnt get your money worth. So they put you through all this crap and your pulling your hair out. Sometimes your like -what? who the hell would ever think of that! - I havent played Zak McKraken yet, that one is on my list though. You can only buy so many games people, lol. Now its easy, back then you really relied on reviews and your friends for picking games.
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-mocthezuma I beat them eventually, I just didnt agree with their design philosophy. They thought if you zoomed through a game fast you didnt get your money worth. So they put you through all this crap and your pulling your hair out. Sometimes your like -what? who the hell would ever think of that! - I havent played Zak McKraken yet, that one is on my list though. You can only buy so many games people, lol. Now its easy, back then you really relied on reviews and your friends for picking games.
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Phaytal
According to 3D Realms the minimum requirements for Commander Keen: Goodbye Galaxy are an XT class machine although they recommend a 286 AT class system, 565kb conventional RAM, and 1 - 3 megs of HDD space depending on if you have the shareware version or the full retail version.
Also, please realize that even though the Tandy 1000TX had a 286 CPU it was still considered an XT class sytem and was NOT an AT class machine.
However, yes it SHOULD play, although im sure with some slowdown.
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According to 3D Realms the minimum requirements for Commander Keen: Goodbye Galaxy are an XT class machine although they recommend a 286 AT class system, 565kb conventional RAM, and 1 - 3 megs of HDD space depending on if you have the shareware version or the full retail version.
Also, please realize that even though the Tandy 1000TX had a 286 CPU it was still considered an XT class sytem and was NOT an AT class machine.
However, yes it SHOULD play, although im sure with some slowdown.
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dradeel
It does sound frickin' awesome. A couple of other great games with a beautiful soundtrack that comes to my mind would be Dune 2 and Transport Tycoon. Nr 3 and 4 of those audio samples at the start reminded me instantly of those two games. Glad you showed Stunts. I had forgotten how great the engine sounded in that game. I need to play it again.
The NES chiptunes and SID gets all the attention, perhaps rightfully, but there were some amazingly atmospheric stuff made on the PC as well.
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It does sound frickin' awesome. A couple of other great games with a beautiful soundtrack that comes to my mind would be Dune 2 and Transport Tycoon. Nr 3 and 4 of those audio samples at the start reminded me instantly of those two games. Glad you showed Stunts. I had forgotten how great the engine sounded in that game. I need to play it again.
The NES chiptunes and SID gets all the attention, perhaps rightfully, but there were some amazingly atmospheric stuff made on the PC as well.
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Shot97
-Shiqna1 I would be interested to know the true figure of how many switched/how quickly. Amiga users were loyal. When Commodore went into bankruptcy several of us were depressed. I think a lot of us held on until Windows 95/SVGA. SVGA it was obvious, Amiga was done, never to return. It was 10 years ahead of its time, it truly was '95 when all the little things were surpassed not just the graphics. Full digital audio etc. Amiga still has one over pc- different resolutions/same screen.
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-Shiqna1 I would be interested to know the true figure of how many switched/how quickly. Amiga users were loyal. When Commodore went into bankruptcy several of us were depressed. I think a lot of us held on until Windows 95/SVGA. SVGA it was obvious, Amiga was done, never to return. It was 10 years ahead of its time, it truly was '95 when all the little things were surpassed not just the graphics. Full digital audio etc. Amiga still has one over pc- different resolutions/same screen.
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mocthezuma
-MrShot97 hehe. those games were easy. and a lot of time dying made the games more entertaining. Anyway. if you played a lot of adventure games back then, then you should be aware of the need to save frequently. especially in the sierra games. And if you got annoyed with playing halfway through a game and then figuring out you forgot something at the beginning, and you say lucasarts are the best, you obviously never play zak mckraken and the alien mindbenders. :-P
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-MrShot97 hehe. those games were easy. and a lot of time dying made the games more entertaining. Anyway. if you played a lot of adventure games back then, then you should be aware of the need to save frequently. especially in the sierra games. And if you got annoyed with playing halfway through a game and then figuring out you forgot something at the beginning, and you say lucasarts are the best, you obviously never play zak mckraken and the alien mindbenders. :-P
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