Ad-Lib Sound Card for the Parallel Port

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[Sparkette]

I want to hear what it sounds like when you tell the computer there's a printer connected to the port and try to print.

[ThatBrubakerFellow]

Y'all leave his soldering techniques alone. He does a mighty fine job of it.

[LGR]

What a neat device, I’ve been quite enjoying mine! Great to see the assembly process too since I was far too lazy to go for a kit :P

[michaelocyoung]

12:30
Many lemmings died to bring you this top quality content.

[alancordwell]

There are folks who will criticise anybody for anything. Your soldering technique is spot on- from a former professional electronics tech!

[Bleats_Sinodai]

Whoever told you that your soldering skills were lacking, they're wrong.
I'm an electronics tecnician, and I work doing maintenance in medical equipment at the largest hospital in Brazil, and considering my own skills and what I've seen other techs do, you're way above us all in soldering skills, my friend. Your solder jobs are clean, quick, and most important of all, NOT BLOBBY.
Don't mind these nitpicky pillocks, they probably wouldn't fair soldering on camera as well as you do. Keep up the good work!

[JomasterTheSecond]

A 20 minute video all about Parallel Port sound cards?! Time to drop whatever I'm doing and watch!

[GroverTD]

I was in charge of a hand soldering line for a brief period of my life. Your solder joints look great. The critics are just nitpicking

[noeuro]

Atari could have made a sound card attachment like this for their ST series. It's a pity they didn't, but the YM chip holds up today surprisingly well for good chip music.

[fatjaysgarage]

It wasn’t until 17 minutes in I questioned why I was even watching I don’t own or have any intention to own any of these things

[GlennMartinAKAMrBadAxe]

just noticed...
11:44 "I might sound like a heretic..."
nah... this sounds like a Heretic: 18:24

[Intraj]

Who doesn't want to see the assembly? Screw skipping to ~8:30... The assembly is the best part of all of your videos. Especially that Hobby Computer you made. I want more of that. Solder and all :)

[ScottLeeOfficialWebsite]

Its fantastic when David inspires creative folks to built new tools for older machines. Thumps up! :)

[antonnym]

this takes me back. my late wife really enjoyed Lemmings on her DOS machine, and the music was a big part of that. You always do great work. This has to be my favorite channel! All good wishes, Sir!

[burnsplasticbags]

Dude... I love your channel and videos (and your taste in music, frankly)! You don’t owe these trolls any apologies, explaination or disclaimer. Your pronunciation of solder is perfectly acceptable and your soldering skills appear to be exceptional IMO. Keep up the good work.

[Aidan_Lawrence]

7:49 That "little chip" is actually pretty interesting too. It's a proprietary external digital-to-analog converter. Most Yamaha FM synth chips required specific external DAC chips which made them kind of a pain to work with. More often than not, the lower-end FM synth chips had internal DACs to keep part-counts and costs down. Chips like the YM2612 (Sega Genesis) and the YM2413 (Low end keyboards, MSX) had built-in DACs which made them much easier to work with and much cheaper overall.

If you're interested, I've actually created a dedicated Sega Genesis video game music player using a real YM2612 and have made videos of that project on my channel. FM synth is SO cool and I really wish it would make a comeback.

[arcanescroll]

I solder medical equipment professionally, and honestly I have seen every soldering technique imaginable. They all result in the same thing, the technique makes no real difference. You solder just fine, clean results and no residue scattered all over the place.

Heck, I commit the worst soldering "sin", I put solder on the iron and use that to solder the component, easily done single handedly so I can use my other hand to hold the component. When having to make 200+ battery packs, every time saving technique is a win.

[FaSMaN]

Nothing wrong with your solder work, I've seen "professionals" do far worse

[SiDWiNDR]

NeverLock loader spotted :D

This is a very neat device. Also with those stand up resistors it looks a bit like a small city on that PCB - first thing that came to mind.

Go Belgium!

[SakuraIsayeki]

Warning : A cute kitty was spotted at 18:41 ! :D