ULTRA RARE! Legendary AdLib Gold 1000 + Manual

Wow...there's a blast from the past.

Just checked the eBay sold listings for the AdLib Gold:

One without a manual sold for $1225
Another for $2340
One with the surround module pulled in $4300
One with box, disks, and manual went for $1136
Another with the box, disks, manual, and surround module commanded $2274

Crazy how much money people are shelling out for those!
 
A lot of this stuff will really screw with the younger generations having to actually first determine what interrupts and DMA channels are available and then physically setting jumpers on a card to those available resources. lol
 
A lot of this stuff will really screw with the younger generations having to actually first determine what interrupts and DMA channels are available and then physically setting jumpers on a card to those available resources. lol

IRQ 5, DMA 1, port 220. IRQ 7 was used by the LPT1 parallel port. Yeah jumpers, I remember those!!!

I vividly remember going from a 8 bit SB pro (which was bad ass in it's own right back in the day.... stereo sound? ) to the AWE 32 and suddenly Tie Fighter had real midi music.

My roommate had a Gravis Ultrasound which had great specs on paper, and was pretty cool for playing mod's and midi's.... but that thing wasn't game friendly. If the game didn't support it exclusively, then it defaulted to 8 bit Soundblaster mono mode.

Man I wish I could defrag my brain and get rid of this old useless knowledge and free up some brain space for more important things. Like remembering powershell switches, or people's names.
 
I'll never understand why people brag about how complex things were back then. I am so glad I don't have to deal with that shit any more. If you think it's so cool, then start soldering your own motherboards together or something.
 
I'll never understand why people brag about how complex things were back then. I am so glad I don't have to deal with that shit any more. If you think it's so cool, then start soldering your own motherboards together or something.

Since this seems to be directed at Burticus and my comments...

Um? How did our comments come off as "bragging" that things were more complicated or that the complexity of manually configuring things was is some way "cool"??? Amused or reminiscing maybe, considering the subject of the thread IS about older devices that required manual configuration seems like perfectly legitimate commentary. I looked at the listing and that was one of the first things that came to my mind was memories of dealing with that stuff. I'm also happy to not have to deal with it "much" anymore. Still do at times though. Load a system up with cards and whatnot and it is quite easy to run out of PCIe lanes and other resources in a server when the RAID controller, multi-port 10gbe card, serial port (yes they are still widely used in commercial applications), or even in desktops with multiple video cards and then add in an NVMe card and you can quickly run into the same things. Might not need to set jumpers but you might need to shuffle cards around in slots as well as disabling and modifying resources in the BIOS.
 
Since this seems to be directed at Burticus and my comments...

Um? How did our comments come off as "bragging" that things were more complicated or that the complexity of manually configuring things was is some way "cool"??? Amused or reminiscing maybe, considering the subject of the thread IS about older devices that required manual configuration seems like perfectly legitimate commentary. I looked at the listing and that was one of the first things that came to my mind was memories of dealing with that stuff. I'm also happy to not have to deal with it "much" anymore. Still do at times though. Load a system up with cards and whatnot and it is quite easy to run out of PCIe lanes and other resources in a server when the RAID controller, multi-port 10gbe card, serial port (yes they are still widely used in commercial applications), or even in desktops with multiple video cards and then add in an NVMe card and you can quickly run into the same things. Might not need to set jumpers but you might need to shuffle cards around in slots as well as disabling and modifying resources in the BIOS.
because your comment above was phrased just like any number of "Millenials will never be able to XXX"

Example of how it sounded:

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:ROFLMAO: at that pic... okay fair enough. Was not really my intention though. Moreso pointing out that everything has been play and play for so long that many would be spending some time scratching their head and looking online to figure out how to get a card like this working. That along with the requisite entires in the config.sys or autoexec.bat to load the drivers with the appropriate resources as well. I did read that schools in Texas are going to start teaching cursive again though.
 
:ROFLMAO: at that pic... okay fair enough. Was not really my intention though. Moreso pointing out that everything has been play and play for so long that many would be spending some time scratching their head and looking online to figure out how to get a card like this working. That along with the requisite entires in the config.sys or autoexec.bat to load the drivers with the appropriate resources as well. I did read that schools in Texas are going to start teaching cursive again though.

"looking online to figure out how to get a card like this working" LOLOLOL. You mean, RTFM? Dial up into AOL sound blaster user groups, etc?

Yeah look it's really just a glance back at how things used to be and it was commonplace. Back when you (or I....mostly I :) ) were the "computer guy" who got late night phone calls from everyone and their mother for computer support, etc etc

Pretty much since 2000-ish it really has been "plug and play", LOL 5 years after that phrase was a laughing stock with Win 95.

We are OLD! Get off my [H]ard lawn! Or I'll spray you down with a small shell script that hose you with spam.

because your comment above was phrased just like any number of "Millenials will never be able to XXX"

Example of how it sounded:

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I love that pic! And yep it's all true. I might not be an iphone wizard, but I sure do fix a lot of their laptops that are destroyed with porn virus/trojans

I'll never understand why people brag about how complex things were back then. I am so glad I don't have to deal with that shit any more. If you think it's so cool, then start soldering your own motherboards together or something.

You say that like it's a bad thing. Hey look, this is a website for people who love to tweak and overclock hardware, going back to the 90's. Not my fault if other people were in diapers back then.... don't worry, in 25 years it will happen to you too!
 
i didn't realize what this listing was til i bought my Adlib original !!!

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Yep, and wow, if you think the gold is rare, try finding the surround sound daughter board (pictured in the video thumbnail). It had the ability to add chorus too.

The death of adlib and the gold is a nasty story, one of the most obvious cases of anti-competitive behavior in the known internet universe. It really just came down to creative getting the YMF262 (new yamaha chip, OPL3 synth) in the Pro II .....and adlib not being able to get it at all....

Much cheaper cards like the Sound Blaster Pro 2 and later with the ymf262 will sound pretty much the exact same minus the oversampling on the gold for people just looking for OPL3, but the gold is a true collector unicorn, very few exist.
 
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because your comment above was phrased just like any number of "Millenials will never be able to XXX"

Example of how it sounded:


"Phased like" "how it sounded", interpretive, yet you give two explicitly deriding examples. Maybe give someone the benefit of the doubt, and reign in the insecurity over an arbitrary label society has placed on you (and everyone else); based on some contentious span of years you might have been born in? I say this btw, as someone that a) remember the days of this peripheral, and similar that required a bit more effort (not glamorizing, just making a statement) and often difficult to unearth, elusive, or ethereal propriety information regarding the utilization of such, and b) being, technically, a millennial, at least according to what wikipedia claims is the "widely accepted" range of years, albeit, on the very edge of that span. Yet I didn't interpret his post remotely the way you did, and certainly don't find myself getting all up in arms anytime some cliche blanket and ultimately harmless statement or meme deriding "my generation" is tossed about. Like anyone that survives a traumatic experience and feels like they came out ahead, and lets be clear, the situation with building and working on computer tech 20-30 years ago was just that, often tedious, and infuriating; you tend to romanticize those experiences, in the selective memory of hindsight, coupled with the satisfaction of learning or accomplishment under less than optimal circumstances, and feel a bit of casual smugness that anybody else coming after without the context of your environment and experiences, could do the same, it's harmless, and ultimately the intent isn't to disparage someone else, just find something to feel proud sets you apart, even if it doesn't objectively. Overcoming tedium however, does empower you, and often does foster further personal development. It is something to be proud of.

Even if the intent was overtly targeting millennials (which is a question for the poster to clarify, not a conclusion to jump to), it certainly wasn't personally targeting you, or me, so why jump in his shit over it? Ironically, that's just perpetuating the cliche stereotype of self absorbed thin skinned millenials isn't it? Fortunately for me at least, regardless of "widely accepted" classification of people based on arbitrary variables, I don't define myself in any way shape or form, by such criteria, and I really feel deeply sorry for anyone that does. This btw, (and feel I shouldn't have to clarify this, but will in the interest of diplomacy, and because "inference" of text from an emotional standpoint is exactly the issue that prompted this response); wasn't targeted at you, but honestly, and genuinely, feeling pity for our entire species, for such narrow mindedness, which really is beneath us all, in my view. Life is hard, and fleeting, to be wasting our time pigeon holing ourselves into senseless categories, everybody decries being subject to them, so why would anyone claim them, let alone defend them?

Admittedly, a bit of grandstanding here, but well, we're tossing around unsolicited opinions to see what sticks, right? :p
 
<snipping a pile of attitude>

You realize the person I quote replied and, A) acknowledged the humor in my post, and B) admitted it did sound like that, albeit unintentionally.

I pointed out how something could easily be interpreted, and then gave a related (humerous meme) example. I didn't feel the need to type paragraphs in response.

Feeling defensive, bro?
 
You realize the person I quote replied and, A) acknowledged the humor in my post, and B) admitted it did sound like that, albeit unintentionally.

I pointed out how something could easily be interpreted, and then gave a related (humerous meme) example. I didn't feel the need to type paragraphs in response.

Feeling defensive, bro?

Explaining something in depth because of your thin skin isn't being defensive. It's designed to overwhelm you, you know, because of the millennial thing you equate your existence to.
 
You realize the person I quote replied and, A) acknowledged the humor in my post, and B) admitted it did sound like that, albeit unintentionally.

I pointed out how something could easily be interpreted, and then gave a related (humerous meme) example. I didn't feel the need to type paragraphs in response.

Feeling defensive, bro?


Haha the quote portion you've abridged to <snipping a pile of attitude> and then calling me defensive, seems to me kind of ironic in that hypocritical manner, that just (to me) reinforces my point. That one may want to question what their mind is telling them is "easily interpreted". I acknowledged that I was just waxing philosophical based on your interaction, but you do seem pretty quick to assume you understand some sub-text other than the actual words written. To be fair, that seems to be pretty common these days.

I'm not feeling defensive at all, nor was there any attitude implicit or otherwise, at least in terms of my intent with my post. That's the question we all need to figure out though isn't it? How can we determine what, if any actual sub-text or implication there is to someone's words, and whether it correct to be offended, or take exception to them, without knowing that, or more importantly, what the intent was? The simple solution, is to just stop making assumptions, take each other for the actual content of the words, and when in doubt, ask for clarification. That's exactly what I did when I read your above posts btw, which in fairness, equally led to my misinterpretation of what you feel was clearly and obviously humorous, but which I'd argue, would require the assumption that it was intended as such in the first place, since nothing I can read there indicates sarcasm.

Not saying I didn't "misinterpret" you, clearly I did, but I think that's because I wasn't assuming there was an interpretation to make. You seemed like the defensive one in the context of the actual words to me. Obviously that's fallible, but I think it does reinforce my point about how subjective interpretation of text is, without inflection or personal context.



To be clear, I'm not upset in any way shape or form, defensive, annoyed, anything. Frankly, I'm enjoying the opportunity to refine my thoughts on the subject, which is ultimately, to my mind, what discourse or debate is supposed to be about, not convincing someone else of such. So, apologies if I "misinterpreted" your posts, no hard feelings I hope, and sorry for jumping on an inside joke, if that's what it was. Wasn't obvious to me, but regardless, my response was really just aimed at the universe (or society), and not you specifically, even though I did use you as a component of making my argument.


No hard feelings I hope, certainly none on my part.
 
lol also, if there's a well known and accepted social convention now that the inclusion of a meme automatically changes the "context" of any interaction to 'humorous' can someone please let me know? </sarcasm>
 
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