LGR Oddware - Disney Sound Source
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Today I learned: The sound card was inside the parallel port thing, I always thought it was inside the speaker, and the phone line cable just passed the appropriate signals to it, LOL! I thought the plug merely passed the wires through to the other side, and a handful out to the phone plug.
Date: 2022-04-14
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Calgary
Man this brought me back! I completely forgot about this thing until I watched another of your recent oddware vids. If memory serves I used this thing for years. Being a teenager with no income short of an allowance I have fond memories, if not fading, memories of it. I don't recall using it with windows but again i remember hanging onto it way longer than i should have. I also remember thinking what an awesome value it was for me considering the price of sound cards and what an upgrade it was versus using the PC speaker only for sfx. Great job on your vids. Didn't realize you have been doing these for so long but you def have a new fan! Keep up the great work and glad this stuff is being captured for posterity: )
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Man this brought me back! I completely forgot about this thing until I watched another of your recent oddware vids. If memory serves I used this thing for years. Being a teenager with no income short of an allowance I have fond memories, if not fading, memories of it. I don't recall using it with windows but again i remember hanging onto it way longer than i should have. I also remember thinking what an awesome value it was for me considering the price of sound cards and what an upgrade it was versus using the PC speaker only for sfx. Great job on your vids. Didn't realize you have been doing these for so long but you def have a new fan! Keep up the great work and glad this stuff is being captured for posterity: )
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CholoCPC
Had one of these for a short while. Got it from a bargain bin from a -music & entertainment- store. Came bundled with a game i recall & bought it just from curiosity as i had never seen one albeit having visited pc-stores frequently. Perhaps it was only sold as a -toy- in non- -pro- pc stores? Got for like 1-2 bucks but this was also way beyond Soundblaster (and clones) having won absolutely everything. Wasnt particular impressive, but the idea was a good one. Having an external -plug & play-kids friendly sound solution was no double much easier then having to juggle irq & dma when installing a internal soundcard.
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Had one of these for a short while. Got it from a bargain bin from a -music & entertainment- store. Came bundled with a game i recall & bought it just from curiosity as i had never seen one albeit having visited pc-stores frequently. Perhaps it was only sold as a -toy- in non- -pro- pc stores? Got for like 1-2 bucks but this was also way beyond Soundblaster (and clones) having won absolutely everything. Wasnt particular impressive, but the idea was a good one. Having an external -plug & play-kids friendly sound solution was no double much easier then having to juggle irq & dma when installing a internal soundcard.
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Arthas
i grew up in a suburb that in the 90s was _full_ of Microsoft employees and other people working for similar tech companies, and my mom worked for a computer maintenance company. So i had access to alot of these -oddwear- sorts of things growing up, even though i didnt own any of them. I remember someone giving me one of these when i was a little kid and never could figure out what it was for (no box, the person who gave it to me picked it up at a garage sale and didnt know what it was for exactly. Until today i always thought it was just a weird speaker or a poorly designed answering machine (because of the shape.
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i grew up in a suburb that in the 90s was _full_ of Microsoft employees and other people working for similar tech companies, and my mom worked for a computer maintenance company. So i had access to alot of these -oddwear- sorts of things growing up, even though i didnt own any of them. I remember someone giving me one of these when i was a little kid and never could figure out what it was for (no box, the person who gave it to me picked it up at a garage sale and didnt know what it was for exactly. Until today i always thought it was just a weird speaker or a poorly designed answering machine (because of the shape.
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Daytona574
I bought one of these from Kmart back in the early 90s. I had a PS/2, and normal sound cards were prohibitively expensive for me at the time, much less an MCA version. It was only useful for me under Windows which I avoided as much as possible (due to it barely running acceptably on my 386sx/16, so within a day it went back. That said, within Windows, since everything went through the Windows sound system which then output to this, it worked decently well.
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I bought one of these from Kmart back in the early 90s. I had a PS/2, and normal sound cards were prohibitively expensive for me at the time, much less an MCA version. It was only useful for me under Windows which I avoided as much as possible (due to it barely running acceptably on my 386sx/16, so within a day it went back. That said, within Windows, since everything went through the Windows sound system which then output to this, it worked decently well.
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ZipplyZane
I don't know if they're still easily available, but I remember a bunch of universal adapters would have 9-volt battery plug. So you could actually not use a battery.
I'm sure you can buy your own online easily. Or make one by pulling the wires out of a 9-volt device and connect it to a 9 volt DC adapter. Just make sure to test to make sure that you have the positive and negative terminals correct.
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I don't know if they're still easily available, but I remember a bunch of universal adapters would have 9-volt battery plug. So you could actually not use a battery.
I'm sure you can buy your own online easily. Or make one by pulling the wires out of a 9-volt device and connect it to a 9 volt DC adapter. Just make sure to test to make sure that you have the positive and negative terminals correct.
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Ron
I used to have one of these that I plugged into a 486 I think. I remember the speaker itself to be horrible quality so I plugged in regular pc speakers into the headphone jack. It seemed to work alright. I remember finding some sort of modified driver for it that allowed full use in Windows or at least close to full use. It's been long enough that I don't really remember the details. lol
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I used to have one of these that I plugged into a 486 I think. I remember the speaker itself to be horrible quality so I plugged in regular pc speakers into the headphone jack. It seemed to work alright. I remember finding some sort of modified driver for it that allowed full use in Windows or at least close to full use. It's been long enough that I don't really remember the details. lol
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Brandon
Walt Disney Computer Software did another video game known as Disney Infinity (which included the USB power base. The USB power base is a piece of computer hardware which is probably a pluggable USB accessory and is compatible with current IBM/Lenovo, Dell, Apple, Gateway, Sony, eMachines and HP computers (as much as PlayStation, Nintendo and XBOX game consoles.
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Walt Disney Computer Software did another video game known as Disney Infinity (which included the USB power base. The USB power base is a piece of computer hardware which is probably a pluggable USB accessory and is compatible with current IBM/Lenovo, Dell, Apple, Gateway, Sony, eMachines and HP computers (as much as PlayStation, Nintendo and XBOX game consoles.
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KaneRobot
Got the Sound Source as a pack-in with The Rocketeer game. Was my first computer game ever (for a computer I owned anyway, bought alongside the D&D Forgotten Realms Gold Box collection. Was still using DOS at this point, Windows 3. 0 came a little bit later. Mine must have been an older version because pretty sure I only got the 5. 25 disk with it.
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Got the Sound Source as a pack-in with The Rocketeer game. Was my first computer game ever (for a computer I owned anyway, bought alongside the D&D Forgotten Realms Gold Box collection. Was still using DOS at this point, Windows 3. 0 came a little bit later. Mine must have been an older version because pretty sure I only got the 5. 25 disk with it.
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BrokenSet
So what goes on inside the box? Is it like the Covox DAC, or is there a cheap soundcard inside the speaker housing that decodes everything, or what? On the side, it's rather fitting that it uses what is essentially a phone cord to connect it up. It certainly sounds as though it's being played back over a crummy handset.
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So what goes on inside the box? Is it like the Covox DAC, or is there a cheap soundcard inside the speaker housing that decodes everything, or what? On the side, it's rather fitting that it uses what is essentially a phone cord to connect it up. It certainly sounds as though it's being played back over a crummy handset.
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