Subj : Re: Favourite sound chip?
To   : Retroswim
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Mar 26 2025 08:30 pm

-=> Retroswim wrote to mary4 <=-

 Re> My 286 is rather special though, because it ALSO has a Yamaha YM2612
 Re> and Ti SN76489 PSG inside!

I've told the story before about a practical joke we played on a QA
manager at a software company I worked at years back. He was responsible
for running the lab, this was back in the 486/DOS/SB16 days. No plug and
play, you had to jumper IRQs and ports.

He was a bit of a jerk, so the sound guy took his install disks and
changed the test sounds. Added a stutter, so it sounded like the
settings were conflicting with other hardware.

"perperperperforming irrrrrrq testestestestest", sounding like Max
Headroom.

So, even when he had the settings right, it sounded wrong.

We sprung the trap, and after an hour or so, the obscenities got louder
and louder. We offered to help, swapped the driver disks, and all worked
as expected. Walked away openly questioning his ability to run a QA lab.

Aside: These were fun days - software companies traded titles to make
sure everything worked with them, so tech support/qa had hundreds of
software titles you could install and play with. And, they all had our
software in return.


 
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