#picogus — Public Fediverse posts
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.. and suddenly I find myself back in the #90s where we saw the future of home computing unfold before our eyes. The #PC - a bulky expensive machine for boring tunaheads running WordPerfect suddenly got graphics and sound that didn't suck.
Young aspiring programmers (that would be coders for you young people) wrote code in assembler and made the PC do thing it was never meant to. Awesome things. Things that blew your mind. Some wrote trackers for composing sample based music, and suddenly everyone could compose music on their PC.
The level of optimism and creativity was mind blowing, and I feel so incredibly lucky for having been a part of it. Sure, our demos were too horrible to be shown on the big screen, but we did submit at least one for #TheParty back in '92 or '94.
I miss the 90s.
This, by the way, is a sweet #Pentium 200MMX system with #PicoGUS, #SoundBlaster Vibra16 and an #TsengLabs #ET6000 graphics card (that's GPU for you young'uns).
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Took a moment and fixed the issue with my crashing #Pentium 200MMX system. Now the #PicoGUS with #WP32 #McCake wavetable if running #MonkeyIsland they way it's supposed to run :-) There's also a #Vibra16 card in there, which is unused for this game.
The issue? #IRQ, obviously. The introduction of a SATA controller meant that IRQ 5 previously used by the PicoGUS was grabbed by the controller and the system died with playing audio.
Nice to know the tech skills of the #90s are still there.
And sorry about the video quality - I got all excited and didn't care.
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Managed to buy a couple of delicious #Trust Soundwave speakers for around €20. Case and contacts cleaned. Tested with #SecondReality by #FutureCrew on my #Pentium 200 sleeper with #TsengLabs #ET6000 graphics and #PicoGUS sound.
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@polpo Nice. I have, and daily listen to my beloved GUS "Classic" in my 5x86 160, but the CPU doesn't have the stuff to do 30 channel tracks in software as would be needed for SB16 output, really.
What's the CPU you're working with?
I still want to pick up a PicoGUS, perhaps for other card emulation, though.
#GUS #PicoGUS #SB16 #SoundBlaster #GravisUltrasound #video #chiptune
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#vintagecomputing #MSDOS build progressing. #Pentium 200 with #TsengLabs #ET6000 graphics, CF for storage, #Gotek for floppies and a #PicoGUS with the #McCake #WP32 #MT32Pi wave table add on. Output looped into a #SoundBlaster Vibra 16C for full Gravis Ultrasound, Sound Blaster, Roland and General Midi support. Excellent for all things DOS. Aiming for early to mid 90s games and demos, including point and click adventures from #Sierra and Lucas as well as some of the excellent demos from that time. I'm talking #MonkeyIsland, #LeisureSuitLarry and #FutureCrew and their #SecondReality demo. Tested the latter and got something in my eye. Oh the feels.
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Braucht noch jemand einen Gravis Ultrasound Clone, der auf einem #RP2040 µC basiert, für seinen Retro PC 🙂? #GUS #Gravis #Ultrssound #Retro #RetroGaming #RaspberryPi #PicoGUS https://hackaday.com/2023/11/21/picogus-for-all-your-isa-sound-card-needs/