[HN Gopher] Comprehensive list of modern reproductions of vintag...
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Comprehensive list of modern reproductions of vintage sound cards
Author : nickt
Score : 42 points
Date : 2022-06-26 14:58 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| noizz wrote:
| WHY?
|
| Being a boomer I don't miss anything about those cards. Drivers
| were awful (if even existed), sound quality mediocre and all of
| them came with a ton of compromises, if not quirks.
| Fargoan wrote:
| It's a fun hobby
| goosedragons wrote:
| There's a segment of retro PC gamers that like playing and
| using period correct hardware because modern OSs and emulation
| tools can be not quite right. Some vintage sound cards have
| gotten scarce and expensive while still being desirable to that
| community (in part because of the quirks) and so reproduction
| cards have started to become a thing.
| orblivion wrote:
| Maybe you need to be Gen X or early Millennial. How do you feel
| about (just inventing an example) the background noise of LPs
| vs 8-tracks (vs cassettes)? This has to do with what was around
| when were that specific age, I think. Particularly if it's tied
| to a game we love.
| orblivion wrote:
| I'll also throw in - there's something to be said for
| faithful reproduction, per se. I'm just coming to terms with
| the fact that I'm never going to fix up all my old video game
| consoles, and I'm going to find someone who is willing and
| able to do something with them. And part of why is that I
| know I can find an emulator to faithfully replicate it, and I
| can set up a raspberry pi or something some day and have the
| same experience.
|
| People with old PC games might want to play and faithfully
| replicate them again just the same.
|
| (Though modernized versions are often fine too.)
| prvc wrote:
| Frankly, it's self-indulgence. Recently, Stallman has been
| complaining about the diversion of resources away from free
| software towards retro computing.
| classichasclass wrote:
| RMS confuses the symptom for the disease. Retrocomputing is
| almost always pure hobby, done for joy and recreation, while
| there is plenty of drudgery in libre/open source software. He
| shouldn't be surprised when geeky goofing off is a lot more
| fun for people than frequently unpaid labour.
| IntelMiner wrote:
| As much as I hate to give Stallman oxygen, as a fellow retro
| computing enthusiast I'm morbidly curious to read about it.
| Is there anywhere I can find the full text of his caustic
| remarks?
| prvc wrote:
| I recall having heard it in a somewhat recent solo video
| address of his, although I don't have the exact timestamp
| ready to hand.
| Sean-Der wrote:
| I have been having so much fun doing Retro stuff. Vogons is the
| place to be for this area. I bought a Compaq Presario 4505. Then
| did lots of upgrades
|
| * Ram to 64MB
|
| * CPU is a 233MMX
|
| * 512KB COAST
|
| * Voodoo 3 3000 PCI
|
| * IDE -> SATA with a 32GB SSD
|
| * Audician 32 Plus
|
| Wavetable cards are especially fun. Serdashop sells a bunch of
| interesting ones. X2GS, Yucatan FX, E-Wave, McFly and X2S are
| popular ones. Check out this[0] video. The music can be so
| dramatically different depending on what hardware you have. It is
| fun switching between cards.
|
| Games from this era just had so much passion put into them and
| you can feel it while playing. I am playing System Shock 1 right
| now and you can see all the different experiments that went into
| the game (some good and some bad).
|
| ----
|
| Another cool device to check is the WeeCee [1]. If you want to
| play games on real hardware but don't feel like collecting (and
| troubleshooting) old hardware.
|
| [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiQQ7vvW_T4
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| [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USHvvSbYmJA
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