Re:Recreating the Sounds of the ’90s with a YM3812 Synthesizer
by bzzzt on Monday December 12, 2022 @07:18AM
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I wouldn't underestimate the amount of PC enthousiasm generated by piracy in the late-80's and 90's, especially here in the EU where imported games were priced way above something kids could afford with pocket money.
Didn't know about the OPL3 clones, agree it didn't matter much since by that time CD-ROM became common and most games got digital soundtracks instead of MIDI/synth stuff.
Re:Recreating the Sounds of the ’90s with a YM3812 Synthesizer
by adql on Monday December 12, 2022 @07:48AM
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Right but every single other platform that had writable media(tapes/floppies) had plenty of piracy too. Nobody bought PC over Amiga "coz it's easier to pirate games"
Re:Recreating the Sounds of the ’90s with a YM3812 Synthesizer
by bzzzt on Monday December 12, 2022 @09:12AM
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Nope, people bought a PC because it was good for learning/office and they were even subsidised here. Amiga had a reputation for being more a kind of fancy game machine in the EU.
Re:Recreating the Sounds of the ’90s with a YM3812 Synthesizer
by vintermann on Monday December 12, 2022 @09:21AM
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If anything it would probably be the other way around, since all the major cracking groups started on Commodore computers.
Piracy I think is a wash. Sure, it let us play more of the games that existed for the platform, but probably limited investment, in ports in particular.
Yes, in the beginning Sound Blaster cards had the same chip, but eventually they switched to a clone/emulation. But quite possibly it didn't matter much, since most general midi soundtracks made so poor use of the chipset.