Jest piątek chlopaki i dziewczeta wiec zapodam wam dosc skoczny bangerek

Huge electro banger from earlier this year. My internet is quite slow today so I can’t find new material for you guys. Enjoy this song, if you haven’t heard it before.

The Count and Sinden - Beeper (A-trak remix)

13.

on the phone.

day and night.

never alone.

17.

letters wrote.

answer back.

exchanging notes.

24.

i’m still here.

if u need me.

pager’s near.

29.

call my cell.

voice message if

i fail to hear.

33.

email ease.

i check it daily

what’s yours please?

38.

i’m still  here.

on myspace leave a comment.

clear?

41.

twitter dumb

twitter dee.

one line says it all for me.

44.

just IM cuz

digsby’s my

communi-hub.

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 I packed my bag for that trip like how I had for all other trips. Having grabbed whatever in my closet I could get my hands on, and having stashed whatever would fit into my overnight bag a few minutes before I became officially late for the meeting place for the bus, I then rushed out of my apartment and bullied everyone queueing for a taxi in the corner of 7/11.
I have a knack for packing. I do everything last minute but I rarely forget anything. I guess that kind of ‘gift’ comes and becomes second nature to many journalists, given that they chase breaking news and are usually forced to drop everything as the next big fire breaks.
Thus, with my usual sense of certainty that I have packed everything I needed, I headed for Intramuros, where I would ride the bus to Lucena, Quezon, where the Philippine Press Institute is holding a two-day seminar/conference on civic journalism.
Dreading the ride
The night before, I have imagined being in the company of total strangers – this being the first time that my newspaper is ever honoring an invitation for an event like this from the PPI.
I dreaded the idea of having to sit for hours on end with complete strangers. Worse, I was petrified of the possibility that I would have to pretend I am interested in a conversation consisting of nothing but small talk or self-aggrandizement or “armchair media moralizing.”
It looked like I did not have to endure any of that as I saw Ariel, of the PPI, walking my direction with three other people I surmised were the other journalists-attendees to the conference. Everyone appeared bent on keeping to himself as we boarded the van that would take us to Lucena. Nobody bothered saying a thing to anybody that could be misconstrued as self introduction.
We rode out the next three hours in almost total silence.
Resto in the middle of nowhere
Nearing lunch time, I felt a growl in my stomach and felt I had to eat. I took out from my bag a stack of peanut butter cookies, and started offering it all around. We all ate the cookies before we realized eating them made us hungrier, and so we stopped at the first establishment that looked like an eatery.
After lunch in that restaurant in the middle of nowhere, we realized everyone but the guy named Joey smoked.
Pee-at-your-pants
Joey appeared like a serious guy. He is from northern Luzon. Ariel is familiar with him because they’ve had several of these out-of-town events before. He appeared to be a health buff minus the buffed body.
We liked him because he has a pee-at-your-pants sense of humor. At the dinner table that evening, Joey’s ‘banat’ about how the OFWs (overseas Filipino workers) of the eighties go to Saudi to earn enough money to buy a Sarao passenger jeep – the same kind everyone in the clan would be using to fetch him from the airport when he comes home from Saudi – for his livelihood sent everybody rolling with laughter. Of course, this was after everyone around the table took turns contributing to a long list of things – gadgets really – they remember during that time before cell phones had voice recorders. The clear favorite was the beeper. Everyone had fond memories of it.
Long dinner
That dinner lasted roughly four hours, possibly even longer, and is by far the longest time I can remember sitting for a Red Ribbon cake.
Ariel didn’t have slippers on but he was not complaining. I guess he liked the cold feel of the cemented red tiles on his feet.
In any case, the gazebo where we gathered for dinner was near-perfect: its four posts adorned with white curtains that swayed with the wind (there was a storm that night) gave you that Bali-like feeling. Our dinner table was a big, thick glass atop three giant jars. Centerpiece was a table runner that held a square pan with pebbles and charms.
Ain’t bored
Myko, the very young guy from Baguio, liked the place and our little gathering. I am certain he did because he was early-20-ish and would probably have gone checking the Lucena night scene if we had bored him. But instead he stayed and nearly wept with us as we tried to outdo each other’s gadget-that-typified-the-eighties-contest.
Finally there was Randy – very-composed-, always-cool-, never-worried-Randy.
Randy reminded you of the silent guy in class who was so silent he would get left behind by the picnic bus because people forgot he was there. But this was a different trip, and we made sure we never left behind Randy - not even during that quick run to the nearby SM Lucena on the second night when I and Miles, my roommate, went looking for swimwear for the little pool party we planned to have.
Missed breakfast
The day after the night of the pool party, it was naturally difficult to get up. I had just about enough time to do the packing I am used to, so I grabbed all of my stuff lying around, and stashed all into my overnight bag before I headed outside to attend the seminar that took me there to Lucena in the first place.
I got lucky and had a few minutes to spare, so I tried to get breakfast. But the waiter might have forgotten about my order as the breakfast never came, sending me to the seminar site with only coffee in my stomach.
Such an episode was usually enough to make me lose my cool and I’d go ballistic. But I didn’t. I had too great a time for the past two nights with my new friends that I decided I’d be a little kind that morning. There was no need to bully anyone.

Master of the S'mores: Ariel

 

The gazebo

An actual photograph of the modern physician.

How many cell phones do you own?  One?  While my answer is 1 and I would argue that you are weird if you have more than that, it isn’t unheard of to find someone that has more than one mobile phone.  A few of my friends’ fathers have separate phones for work (think Nextel).  A few of my friends, come to think of it, were given Blackberries by their corporate Wall Street internships after junior year.  Even if you have a second phone line due to work, I think it’s still incredibly inconvenient to carry around two devices, and if you are working for Wall Street, you don’t mind (well, you don’t have the option to mind, because you are their corporate slave).

Why is it, then, that in the world of the hospital, doctors walk around with a veritable pantheon of communications devices hanging from their waistbands?  The typical physician that I see on a daily basis has one phone (often a Blackberry or other smartphone), one regular mobile phone, and a beeper.  You remember the beeper.  It’s the black brick of a thing that does nothing except tell you to go fetch a phone and call someone back.  I do not understand the beeper, not at all.  If you need to get in touch with someone, the most effective way is just to call them.  It is NOT, contrary to hospital convention, to pick up your phone, dial someone’s pager number, dial your own so they know who to call back, wait for them to find a phone  — because Heaven forbid they use one of the many hanging from their pants! — and have them call you back.  Either way, the pager is entirely redundant.

I asked my boss, a physician, the reason for so many devices.  His response: “do you really want the hospital having your personal number?”  Really?  That’s the reason?  I would find this acceptable if it wasn’t every single doctor and resident who has an entire Verizon store dangling under their white coats.  Maybe it’s simply a matter of tradition: it is an accepted practice that the hospital gives each physician a pager, and they each choose to get a phone dedicated to work calls.  Hm.

Though doctors have single-handedly kept the mobile telephone industry from going bankrupt (I mean, do you even know someone with a cell phone?), they have done their best to kill off the razor industry.  Gilette, beware!  Male doctors all across this hospital have some form of facial hair.  Moustaches, beards, goatees, you name it.  Does it say somewhere on the AMCAS med school application “No Razors Allowed Upon Matriculation”?  There was actually one intern here who went from clean-shaven 4th year med student to Beardy McBeard within the span of one month.  It was like watching someone go through puberty.  I assume it isn’t some coincidence, or a phenomenon specific to this hospital.  My best guess is that it makes the physicians more approachable and puts patients at ease, but then again, Grizzly Adams has never done much to calm me down.

So there are my observations for today: all doctors have as many cell phones as will fit in holsters around their belts, one beeper for good measure, and a mountain-man beard.  I am spot on!

Word on the street is that Kid Sister’s album Dream Date will not drop until November 4th 2008! The date has been pushed back a time or two, but I am sure that many fans will agree that it will be worth the wait.  Have I mentioned that she puts on one INSANE show!? She is a sweetheart. I don’t know if I was that drunk or …., but when she was in Vancouver & I knew the set was coming to and I was yelling and yelling PRO NAILS! Of course she was gonna do the club banger before she left. Anyway, she said what babygirl? And of course, like a drunken Kidsis groupie, I’m like PRO NAILS!!! Then she continued to kill the crowd/floor and bring her set to an end. Her personality is contagious, not like I know her on a personal level, but given the opportunity, I am sure her and I could totally be besties! I cannot wait to see where her career goes.

Kidsis, if you are reading this… HEY!!! I love you!

Leaving you with:

The Count & Sinden Feat. Kidsister - Beeper

59fifty’s of 2008

Fake Blood totally kicks ass. He has really blown up insanely quick. Congrats to him. I remember looking all over the internet in April for his “Beeper” remix and was so glad once I finally got it. Well it is way easier to find now. Beatport now carries some of his stuff so DL the song and if you like it, then buy it. His remix of UNKLE’s “Restless” is also worth the couple of bucks.

The Count & Sinden - Beeper (Fake Blood Remix) [Domino] Zshare

The Wiseguys “Ooh la la” is one of those songs you have heard somewhere and just can’t remember where. Probably on a shitty Dane Cook movie preview or something. Luckily the song doesn’t suck like Dane Cook. It is a classic Breaks track  from the British Hip-Hop group’s Antidote (1999). Peace & Beats

The Wiseguys - Ooh la la [Wall of Sound] Zshare

Been a while since the last post so I thought I’d give you some nice tracks to make your day go smoother. Enjoy…

Cut Copy - Lights And Music (Boys Noize Happy Birthday Remix)

Cut Copy - Nobody Lost Nobody Found

Jamie Lidell - Little Bit Of Feel Good (Mr Oizo Remix)

WalterMeego - Girls

On top of these tracks we got a nice mix by CB Radio for Solos’ Records podcast series.

CB Radio - Deathmetal B-Boy

TRACKLIST:

1. CB Radio - Intro
2. Blaqstarr - Shake It To The Ground (Claude VonStroke Remix)
3. The Count and Sinden - Beeper (A-Trak Remix)
4. Diplo - Work Never Over
5. Crookers and MC Dandao - Soca Ali Baba
6. New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream (Herve Goes Bananas Remix)
7. DJ Sega Feat. South Rakkas Crew - Mad All Over Again
8. Style of Eye - The Big Kazoo Techno Dub
9. The Bulgarian - Ignition
10. The Count & Sinden - Stinging Nettle
11. Boy 8-Bit - Fogbank
12. Diplo - Bay Of Figs Ward 21
13. Faggetfairys - Uzela (prod. Joakim, T.O.M, Sensimilla)
14. Estelle Feat. Kanye West - American Boy (Shredded By Stockholm Syndrome)
15. Buraka Som Systema - Yah (Sinden Mix)
16. Jovian - Grenadine Girl (CB Radio Remix)

pic: LastNightsParty

Joshua Harvey is The Count of Monte Cristal/Hervé/Voodoo Chilli/Action Man/Dead Soul Brothers/Speaker Junk/Young Lovers.
Nothing new, his stuff is all over the place - but it’s fab so enjoy.
Plus a Girl Problems rework of Ghetto Bitches.
Watch/Listen/Love.

More Cristal: The Count Of Monte Cristal - Ghetto Bitches (Girl Problems Slice ‘n’ Dice Rework)

If you’re lucky and live in one of the European towns mentioned in this link here (Manchester tonight anyone?) then you will be able to catch our favourite hip hop turned electro house producer DJ A-Trak doing his turntable thing this spring…

The boy from canada (seen above holding mates piss) has come a long way since becoming the youngest ever winnner of the DMC DJ Championships.
(I still  giggle at the footage of him DJing from around those days at an event called the Summit…. his mum proudly tapping here  foot as he jammed with Noise and Roc Raider…)

Anyway A-Track is now a top party rocker and plots world domination with his record label Fools Gold.
Top A-Trak remixes that have been floating around and heavy hitters at CMYK parties are the mighty:

Boyz Noize  - OH!(A-Trak remix)mp3

and

The Count and Sinden - Beeper (A Trak remix)mp3

Bonus for you is that we got a fresh new trak from friend and Fools Gold alumni Sammy Bananas. I think you can only describe this as properly bananas..

Sammy Bananas - All The Girls mp3

Thanks to Discodust for the heads up :)

Sound hardware was probably one of the more complex and irritating elements of DOS gaming in the early 1990’s. So many choices, incompatibilities and even different advantages and disadvantages for sound effects/speech or music. So what do you choose today, especially when an emulator like DOSBox gives you so many audio choices?

Well this entry will describe the major sound cards that impacted the DOS era of PC gaming, a brief history and their compatibility with DOSBox. I will also create a chart that will list in my opinion, the best music and sound effect emulation options for your gaming titles.

Definitions:
PCM – Pulse Code Modulation, is a digital representation of an analogue sample, also used by audio CDs and occasionally on DVDs
DAC – Digital to Analogue Converter, used for playing back digital sound and music through standard speakers and headphones.
ADC – Analogue to Digital Converter, used for recording samples from a standard microphone and storing it on a digital format on the computer.
DSP – Digital Signal Processing or Processor essentially is the same as DAC/ADC combined meaning it allows for both digital to analogue playback and analogue to digital recording.
channel – A single music instrument or sound sample
FM synthesis - frequency modulation synthesis, generates and distorts an audio tone to fake an instrument, often used on synthesises from 1980’s and earlier and has a very electronic, artificial sound.
Wavetable synthesis – In PC audio it refers to pre-recorded sounds and samples or instruments that are then manipulated for tone and pitch.

PC speaker

1 tone generator, mono.
Introduced as the only form of audio output on the original IBM PC back in August 1981. The PC speaker had the ability to only play one waveform tone at one time, making it useless for music and gaming. The notoriety of the speaker’s quality would later earn it the title of the PC squeaker or PC beeper.
Given what was available on other, cheaper computers at the time one can only assume this offering by IBM was a form of cost cutting. Though the PC’s target market were business applications, so it is understandable why IBM originally choose to ignore sound in its original PC specification.

Unfortunately this limit audio would later become a curse for the PC, especially with gaming. It would take well over a decade for entrench audio replacement to become standard.

Developers did find hacks around the limitations of the PC speaker with various games for the era managing to reproduce multiple toned music, digital sound-fx and even speech. At best these hack reproduced a 6bit, single PCM DAC like channel. Unfortunately it had many problems that limited it’s wide spread usage. Firstly they were often CPU speed sensitive, whereby a processor that would be too fast or slow would distort and warp the audio output. There was no volume control, just an off/on BIOS option. The output volume was often to quiet making it hard to hear, and this was compounded by the fact most PCs had the speaker hidden deep inside the PC’s steal casing.

The bargain basement Commodore VIC-20 from the same era came with a RRP of $299.95US. “The VIC chip had three rectangular-wave sound generators. Each had a range of three octaves, and the generators were located on the scale about an octave apart, giving a total range of about five octaves. In addition, there was a white noise generator. There was only one volume control, and the output was in mono.” – Wiki

In comparison the IBM PC started with a RRP of $1,565 for a base model.

DOSBox emulates all functionality of the PC Speaker including the PCM like DAC hacks; though usually you will need to manually adjust the DOSBox speed (cycles) settings to get it working correctly.Dunzhin: Warrior of Ras Volume I by Computer Applications Unlimited from 1982 is an early example of DAC through the PC speaker.

• BattleTech 2 - PC speaker speech and music
• Space Quest 3 - speaker music

Tandy 1000 / Tandy DAC

3 pulse-width modulation channels plus one white channel, mono
8-bit DAC up to 22050 KHz, mono
The original Tandy 1000 series of computers that first came out in 1984 upgraded the internal PC speaker to three channels and a white noise. Later models also allowed for external volume control and support for headphones. When supported is a big improvement over the default PC speaker.

In 1989 Tandy released the 1000 SL series of computers that updated their 3 channel audio chip to incorporate an onboard 8bit, mono DAC/ADC for digital sampling and playback. This was supported by a number of games, including a few Sierra titles (like Space Quest 3) which experimented with it before the Creative Sound Blaster went retail.

DOSBox emulates both Tandy audio (3 channel) and Tandy DAC.

I recommend setting the DOSBox.conf tandy=true rather than tandy=auto to force older games to auto-detect the Tandy 3 channel audio. You might also have to set the DOSBox machine=tandy. For Tandy DAC, DOSBox also requires that sbtype= is set to any allowed value other then none.

• BattleTech 2 - Tandy 1000 speech and music
• SimCity sound effects compared, original PC, Tandy DAC
• Space Quest 3 - Tandy 1000 music
• Space Quest 3 - Tandy 1000 SL/TL music, effects and speech
• Ultima 6 - Tandy 1000 music

Covox Speech Thing / Disney Sound Source

8-bit DAC, mono
The Covox Speech Thing was a simple 8bit DAC/ADC adapter that plugged into a PC’s parallel printer port. Originally released in 1986, it later was revised and marketed under various brands and names including Disney who in the early 1990’s used it for use in their education software.

Note there are a few games that support the Covox Voice Master / Sound Master; this was an internal sound card rather than a printer port adaptor. DOSBox does not support these internal Covox based cards.

DOSBox emulates the Covox printer devices including The Disney Sound Source, which offers better audio quality.

AdLib / OPL2 / YM3812

9 channel FM synthesis, mono
Introduced in 1987 the AdLib Music Synthesizer Card was the first add-on music card to gain wide spread support within the PC industry. While it wasn’t the first, nor was it the most popular, it became the de-facto standard for software and game manufactures in the early 1990’s when music and sound card support became common.

Early games often required an AdLib driver to be loaded in DOS’s memory, known as a TSR. It used a Yamaha YM3812 9 channel FM synthesis chip which is also known as the OPL-2.

Moby Games states that in 1987 there were only 3 games with AdLib support. By 1988 there were 9 games with support, 53 out of 342 in 1989 and 138 out of 406 in 1990, 150 out of 381 in 1991.

DOSBox emulates AdLib audio. AdLib emulation is set using oplmode=. auto tells DOSBox to control emulation. opl2 emulates the original AdLib, that is also used by the original Sound Blaster. dualopl2 emulates two OPL-2 chips, as used by the first generation of Sound Blaster Pro cards. opl3 emulates the AdLib Gold series of cards and was also used by the Sound Blaster 16.

• Doom 2 - AdLib music with PC speaker effects
• Space Quest 3 - AdLib music
• Ultima 6 - AdLib music

Roland MT32 / MPU401 / LAPC-1

32 channel wave synthesis, stereo
The Roland MT-32 Sound Module from the Japanese company Roland was released in 1987. It was a programmable synthesiser that supported up to 32 notes played at once using a 16-bit DAC at a sample rate of 32000 HZ.

Quality was significantly better than the alternative AdLib, and it’s price represented this.

MobyGames game support: 1988 there were 6 DOS games with support; 24 in 1989, 68 in 1990 and 87 in 1991.

DOSBox provides interface support to MPU401 hardware on your computer. DOSBox does not offers MPU401 emulation, rather it uses your soundcard’s own General MIDI implementation of which the quality and accuracy will vary depending on your audio card, drivers and operating system. The default DOSBox mpu401 settings should work for most people.

• BattleTech 2 - DOSBox Sound Blaster Audigy 2 mapped MT32 music with Sound Blaster speech
• Space Quest 3 - DOSBox Sound Blaster Audigy 2 mapped MT32 music
• Space Quest 3 - Authentic MT32 (created and hosted by Yvan256)
• Ultima 6 - DOSBox Sound Blaster Audigy 2 mapped MT32 music
• Ultima 6 - Authentic MT32 (created and hosted by Yvan256)

Creative Music System / Game Blaster

Twin 6 channel FM synthesis, stereo
Creative Music System released in 1987 was the first add-on soundcard by a Singaporean based company that would later become Creative Labs. The card used two Philips SAA 1099 chips that each supported 6 channels of wave a noise in stereo. Price at a similar level to the AdLib, the CMS audio quality was significantly poorer so it was never widely supported by the industry.
“sounding not unlike twelve simultaneous PC speakers” - Wiki quote

MobyGames game support: in 1987 there was one game with CMS support, 6 in 1988 and 17 in 1989. By 1990 there were 40 but this dropped down to 17 titles in 1991 after the Sound Blaster was popularised.

• BattleTech 2 - CMS speech with PC speaker music
• Ultima 6 - CMS music

Sound Blaster 1 / 2

9 channel FM synthesis, single 8 bit DSP, mono
Sound Blaster 1.0 first appeared in 1989 and was the successor to the not so popular Creative Music System that was by then known as the Game Blaster. The Sound Blaster 1.0 was a kind of hybrid card in that it offered backwards support for its earlier Game Blaster series. It also included the Yamaha YM3813 chip that was used in the more popular AdLib card. In addition Creative also included a digital signal processor allowing the playback of sampled sound at 23 KHz and recording at 12 KHz. At the same price as the AdLib including addition value add-ons such as a built in game port, the Sound Blaster out valued and out featured it’s rival. This card forced the AdLib company to file for bankruptcy a couple of years later.

MobyGames game support: 4 in 1988, 9 in 1989, 71 in 1990, 115 in 1991.

Sound Blaster 1.5 released in 1990 removed the included CMS support, probably as a cost cutting measure.

Sound Blaster 2.0 was released in 1991 and basically offered improvements to the digital signal processor chip. Upgrading the playback to 44KHz 8 bits and allowed for auto-DMA which removed an undesirable clicking sound that was audible in earlier cards.

Sound Blaster Pro

Twin 9 channel FM synthesis, twin 8 bit DSP, stereo

1.0 for all intents and purposes was the successor to the Sound Blaster series of cards with the introduction stereo. Like their earlier CMS line of cards, it used two YM3812 chips to emulate stereo, though games had to be specially programmed for this to work, otherwise the games would only detect a single, mono chip. The DSP chip was upgraded to allow for 44KHz 8 bit samples in mono or 22KHz samples in stereo.

Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 removed the twin YM3812 chips and replaced them with a single Yamaha YMF262 otherwise known as the OPL-3. It allowed for 20 FM synthesis channels in stereo.

DOSBox emulates the Sound Blaster 1, 2 and Pro. sbtype= allows you to manually force Sound Blaster emulation. sb1 emulates the original mono Sound Blaster. sb2 emulates revision 2 of the same card. sbpro1 emulates Sound Blaster Pro. sbpro2 emulates revision 2 of the card. sb16 emulates the Sound Blaster 16.

• BattleTech 2 - Sound Blaster 1 music and speech

Pro AudioSpectrum (PAS)

Twin 9 channel FM synthesis, 8bit DSP, stereo
Created by newly formed Californian based Media Vision. The first Pro AudioSpectrum released in 1991 was an 8 bit stereo card that used two YM3812 chips for FM music and had its own DSP chip. I am pretty sure the DSP chip was stereo but was not Sound Blaster compatible, limiting its appeal. It did however include a SCSI CDROM interface allowing the connection of a then new CDROM drive. There were significant savings for buyers of a PAS over a SB Pro with a separate SCSI card.

There is no AudioSpectum emulation in DOSBox.

Pro AudioSpectrum Plus / 16 (PAS)

18 channel FM synthesis, 16bit 44KHz DSP, stereo
Released in 1992 the PAS 16 supported 16 bit 44KHz playback and 16 bit recording. Because of the built in SCSI CDROM interface the card would often be bundled with expensive multi-media packages which included a CDROM and sound card. The PAS was price as the point as Creative’s 8 bit Sound Blaster Pro, making it a popular choice for non-gamers.

The PAS Plus and PAS 16 are essentially the same cards for audio playback. They are both backwardly compatible with AdLib, Sound Blaster 1.5 and the original PAS.

There is no AudioSpectum Plus/16 emulation in DOSBox.

Sound Blaster 16

18 channel FM synthesis, 16bit 44KHz DSP, stereo
Released in the middle of 1992, the 16 series was the next major upgrade to the Sound Blaster range of cards. It finally saw Creative catch up to competing cards by offering 16 bit, 44KHz playback. Music was upgraded to the now standard Yamaha OPL-3 chip. Of cause it also came with the usual Creative price mark-up, but did offer backwards compatibility with the earlier SB series.

DOSBox emulates SoundBlaster 16 audio.

• Doom 2 - Sound Blaster 16 music and effects

Gravis Ultra Sound

14 wave-sampled channels at 16 bit 44KHz DSP or 32 channels at 19Khz, stereo
Based out of Canada, in 1992 Advanced Gravis a well known joystick company bought out the bright red and quite long Gravis Ultra Sound add-on card. Priced slightly higher than the Sound Blaster Pro, the Ultra Sound gave its users lots of bang for their buck. Unfortunately this was at the expense of compatibility with the Sound Blaster series. Leaving most games released up until this point with no or limited .

The card itself was a wave-table soundcard with 256kbs of RAM built in. Unlike the Sound Blaster AWE-32 it did not come with any pre-saved samples so everything had to be loaded through software drivers or by the game itself. As the card did not offer any hardware emulation for Sound Blaster’s DSP chip or even the now ancient AdLib OPL-2 chip, everything had to be emulated using uploaded samples. This required computer memory and CPU resources and often utilised hacks and patches to get many non-supported games to work. This meant that some owners of a GUS would also have a cheap Sound Blaster clone in their machine for complete gaming compatibility.

On the plus side, when games did offer support for the GUS, it offered far greater audio capability than anything else on the home consumer market. It allowed for 14 channels at 44KHz playback or 32 channels at 19.2KHz.

A number of games require the use of GUS drivers that can be downloaded from here. These cannot be distributed with DOSBox as their copyright is incompatible with the DOSBox GNU open source license. You will need to unzip the drives to a directory which is usable within the DOSBox shell. Then change ultradir= to point to it. Otherwise DOSBox offers complete GUS emulation.

• Doom 2 - GUS music and effects

Sound Blaster AWE32

30 channel wave synthesis, 16bit 44KHz DSP, stereo, EAX like effects
In early 1994 Creative released the Sound Blaster AWE-32 which for all intents and purposes was basically a Sound Blaster 16 with a built in synthesizer board and effects chip. All this was useless though unless the game directly supported these features, which was not all too common. The card came with a 1mbit sample ROM and included 512kbit of RAM for user samples. It used 30 sampled channels plus two channels for the FM OPL-3 synthesizer.

Using software drivers it could also attempt to emulate General MIDI and MT-32 audio. Though the drivers consumed valuable conventional memory and were not able to work with common 32-bit protect mode DOS programs.

A budget version of the card was released in 1995. Known as the Sound Blaster 32, it removed the included RAM as well as support for bass, treble and gain adjustments.

There is no DOSBox emulation for the AWE32 series.

General MIDI - GM/GS

24 channel wave synthesis
General MIDI is not a sound card rather it is a 1991 standard for synthesisers that was later adopted PC audio composing cards and later by game developers for use in their games. The standard requires the use of at least 24 simultaneous voices and uses 128 predefined sounds.

GS was an extension to General MIDI that was created by Roland the makers of the original MT-32. The first GS generation introduced extra predefined General MIDI sounds taking the total number up to 226.

Quality of General MIDI and GS is totally dependent on the pre-recorded samples or instruments used by the sound cards. Often cards that claimed GM compatibility by using their built in ROM samples often sounded inferior, sometimes even offensive when compared to an authentic Roland-built General MIDI PC card.

Often support for General MIDI could be tied to a Sound Blaster. The Sound Blaster would provide the digital sound effects and speech while the General MIDI device would provide the music.

General MIDI mapping is provided in DOSBox, but its sample quality is dependent on your soundcard and operating system. Most modern Creative cards using the default Windows XP or Vista MIDI device sound relatively authentic.

DOSBox Supported Devices .. in which order are the best to use?

This is a matter of personal opinion and is based on DOSBox under Windows XP/Vista with a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and a pair of amplified stereo speakers. Of cause it will also depend on the software or game operating within DOSBox.

	Music	Sound Effects and Speech
Best	Gravis UltraSound - 1992	Gravis UltraSound
	General MIDI (depending on your host operating system and setup) - 1991	Sound Blaster 16
	Roland MT-32 (real device) - 1987	Sound Blaster Pro
	Sound Blaster 16 / Sound Blaster Pro 2/ OPL-3 - 1992	Sound Blaster
	Roland MT-32 (when mapped to a GM driver) - 2005	Disney Sound Source - 1990 / Covox Speech Thing / Tandy DAC - 1986
	Sound Blaster Pro -1991	Tandy 1000 / Creative Sound Master / Game Blaster / PC speaker
	Sound Blaster / AdLib / OPL-2 - 1987	AdLib / MT-32
	Creative Sound Master / Game Blaster - 1988
	Tandy 1000 - 1983
Worst	PC Speaker - 1981

Extra Reading …

• Crossfire Designs
• Yvan256 Sound Card Museum

DIM (from the Flying Lilis Brothers) - Disco Mix

1. Fred Falke - 8:08 pm @ The Beach (Jesus From Nazareth A Cappela)
2. Cut Copy - Lights and Music (Boys Noiz Remix)
3. Holy Ghost! - Hold On
4. Chic - I Want Your Love (Todd Terje Mix)
5. In Flagranti - Grand Central Shuttle
6. Hercules & The Love Affair - Blind
7. The Juan Maclean - Happy House
8. Flairs - Better Than Prince

MDY & Remy - This Beat

1. Vicky D - This Beat Is Mine
2. Siedah Garrett - Do You Want It Right Now
3. Melba Moore - Keepin’ My Lover
4. Satisfied Atlantic Starr - One Lover At A Time
5. Rah Band - Messages From The Stars
6. Cameo - Candy
7. Whodini - Freaks Come Out
8. Snoop Dogg - Cool
9. In Flagranti - Coquine
10. Bass Ill Euro vs. N.E.R.D. - Everyone Nose
11. Oh Snap! - How & Why
12. Chromeo vs. Sinden (ft. Kid Sister) - Tenderoni

NROTB - Mixtape #1

1. Chromeo - Call Me Up (Kill The Noise remix)
2. Count of Monte Cristal & SInden - Beeper (Fake Blood remix)
3. Crookers - Big Money Comin
4. VND & LSM - Low Pro
5. Mr Miyagi - Pick Your Poisin (Felix Cartal remix)
6. NROTB - The House of the Dead
7. Laidback Luke - Breakdown the House
8. Bizarre Inc - Playing with Knives (NROTB Remix)
9. The Teenagers - Love No (Tepr remix)
10. Math Head vs Passions - Turn the Music Up (AC Slater remix)
11. Unkle - Restless (Fake Blood remix)
12. Nid & Sancy - Music (SymbolOne remix)

The count of Monte Cristal (aka Herve) is probably best known at the moment for his Beeper track with Sinden.

The UK producer and DJ has his own label Cheap Thrills and has  recently released Ep2 which has some heavy hitting tracks on it.

I HEART THE COUNT

This is gonna get some serious play next [CMYK] party.
Did i mention that will be 23rd May @The Courtyard

Just so you know the words we got a pretty [D0PE] download from the EP.

The Count of Monte Cristal - Bounce That Ass

and while i’m here the Detboi remix of Beeper has been popping
up round [BL0G] world like a  crack mole

The Count and Sinden - Beeper(Detboi remix)

Thanks to our friend Coolbox we’ve got a hot new mixtape created for No Love Lost Records. Drop us a comment with your thoughts….

NLLR 39 - Zoltar (Speaks)

Playlist:

1. Bill Cosby Sweater (Hostage Remix) - OH SNAP!!
2. Bad Runner (Crookers Gone Electro Remix) - Brodinski
3. Touch Your Toes ft. Fat Joe - Touch Your Toes
4. An Open Letter To NYC (Chew Fu Refix) - Beastie Boys
5. Je T’aime (Riva Starr ACID 80 Mix)
6. Maximization Nation (Trevor Loveys Remix) - The Touch
7. London’s Getting Dirty - Warboy
8. 1-2-3-4 - The Outhere Brothers
9. I Like To Move It (More’s Instrumental) - Reel 2 Real feat. The Mad Stuntman
10. I Like To Move It (Smalltown DJs Moving Makes Me Sick Remix) - Reel 2 Real
11. Knobbers - Crookers
12. Slamma - Dynamo & Zoltar
13. Moon Knight - Stereoheros
14. Rave Rave Rave (DJ Donna Summer Rave Maximizer Edit)
15. Vancouver - Felix Cartel
16. Alice (Drop The Lime Heavy Bass Remix) - Moby
17. The Power (Kanji Kinetic Remix) - Snap!
18. Vamp (Dirty Disco Youth’s Rave-work) - Outlander
19. This The Way (Drop The Lime Heavy Bass Remix) - Curses!!
20. Send In The Clowns - Les Gillettes
21. Lets Push Things Forward (Hostage Remix) - The Streets
22. Beeper (Original Version) - The Count & Sinden
23. Love To Push It (Ursula 1000 Edit) - Crookers Vs Salt-N-Pepa

2 Bombes qui bouncent….. Beeper remixé par A-Track et Bounce ft. N.O.R.E de MstrKrft

Beeper - A Track remix

Bounce ft. N.O.R.E - MstrKrft

the count & sinden feat. kid sister - beeper (fake blood remix)

so this song is pretty much my bumping track in the car. it’s the sexiest track i’ve heard in a while.

& bitches, where did you get it first? maybe tuesday night at dance
le’shake not stirred, 9 splendas…. extra sweetness

download:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/782003233a11bc/

rating:

more:
http://www.myspace.com/welovefakeblood

 (h/t to Discobelle)

So, it seems as thought the Chi-town music scene is taking a real hit in the attention department. The Count of Monte Cristal & Sinden are getting set to release an album together to be released on Domino Records. This is huge these guys make dope shit together yo! Here is the video for the first single which you might recognize. The first single is The Count of Monte Cristal, Sinden and Kid Sister in her version of Beeper. Hit me on my beeper!

I have been fuckin swamped with classes and studio lately.  So I havent had much time to post, but unlike Malik, i make a little time.  But in my spare time i dj parties like this.