twh/f2 Posted September 28, 2002 Share Posted September 28, 2002 Howdy *.*! I'm planing to upgrade my xe to freddy offengas stereo deluxe upgrade. Having stereo is just fine, but the pokey sound isn't very bouncing at all. Even with a very bassfull hifi setup the music plays all time very high-noisy and some kind of squeaky. I've heard of several c64 filter-upgrades or sid audio enhancements. But, at this moment, I can not find any of them in the net. But as a matter of principle, there should be a way to use those c64 inventions in our favourite computer, right?? What do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted September 30, 2002 Share Posted September 30, 2002 There is a mod project around somewhere to add a second POKEY to the 8-bit to give it stereo sound, and there is a music generator program and a few Euro video games that support this modification, one game is calle Dynokillers, a bomberman type clone with good graphics. unfortunately I don't know where to find the instructions for this mod, on the net, but I do know the second chip is installed "piggyback" style on top of the first somehow...I'll look for the link to Dynokillers and they may have a link there for the double poeky mod...here's the link to where Dynokillers stereo game is... http://rak.isternet.sk/lego/gmg/main.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twh/f2 Posted September 30, 2002 Author Share Posted September 30, 2002 There is a mod project around somewhere to add a second POKEY to the 8-bit to give it stereo sound ... well, I know that, because I already have a stereo upgrade. this is not my problem. It's more the sound itself.. I have huge Yamaha stereo at home, which is extremly bassfull and bouncing, but not with my atari. even the techno-stylish sound from the polish demos isn't very powerfull at all. So I've discussed with fox1 about a self-built amplifier to enhance the frequencies for getting more power.. any out-of-the box solutions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted September 30, 2002 Share Posted September 30, 2002 Sure, just buy a pre-amp and plug the audio-out into it, then into your amplifier...a small pre-amp, maybe 10watt should suffice. For example, when you run an Atari Jaguar's sound ouput into a stereo amp, it sounds alright, but other systems are much louder, but when I used to have the catbox periphrial connected to the Jaguar, it had a small pre-amp built in for headphone use, but this also worked wonders if you used a simple mini-din phone-jack to RCA coupler (available at Radioshack for a couple bucks), and then ran it into the stereo amp. The sound quality became better than that of other consoles. This pre-amp in the catbox was very small...just enough for headphones really, like those in cd-walkman's, but it worked wonderfully as a pre-amp in this way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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