Wow! I was working for Disney Software (as it was named by then) when we came out with the Disney Sound Source. For its time, it wasn't that bad. We were actually pretty proud of it. There was a nice "hidden Mickey" change to the Sound Source where the sound vents on top appeared in the shape of Mickey's head and ears. Its neat to see it so many years later. Thank you for the video!
This was my first soundcard. Cool to see the people working with these commenting the content Clint created long time ago. He will prob never see these old comments.
I found myself laughing when you called the parallel adapter a "Speech thing". Then you followed with a close-up shot revealing the products name "Speech thing". LOL
Marketing: "We need that a name for that cheap sound card you were developing, any suggestions?" Engineer: "Which sound card? You mean that .. speech thing?" Marketing: "That will do!"
Hi, this is Harry who built the clone device shown in the Covox Speech Thing video - really enjoyed seeing the Disney Sound Source, I've never actually seen one working before - I must say that the sound quality from it was a bit disappointing though!
Oh my, I remember being around severn years old playing all the DOS games I had, and seeing that "Disney Sound Source" in their setups, and wondering: "what on earth does wolfenstein have to do with little mermaid"? :D I forgot about it until now and the mystery is finally revealed to me. :)
When I was a kid, hearing voice recordings coming from a PC was pretty impressive. I probably would have sat there and played every single sound file off that disk out of sheer awe. But then we got an Amiga and it could do that sort of thing out of the box. AMAZEBANG
This brings back some amazing memories. I got this thing bundled with a game called “The Rocketeer” from Software ETC back in 1991. I remember it sounding so amazing when I first installed it but it didn’t work for anything else without crazy hacks 😂
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 :)
you see people like REREZ, with modern "studios" and professional like reviews, and then there's LGR, moquette and feets with not even the socks on... 10/10 relatable
Oh the memories. I used to have this. Bought it at a computer show (remember those? 😅). Whats odd, these game companies put a lot of effort into the sounds they produced back in the day. Especially the music. And it was different levels to it depending on what hardware. At the time I was little and didn't understand the tech behind it all, but it was definitely some differences in music played on this device vs SoundBlaster's. I was so excited to get the SB upgrade!
Heh, it's a pretty clever little thing. A resistor ladder is basically the simplest DAC you can make - it's literally just a bunch of resistors after all. And that's all it is. Everything else is done in software... a lot like the PC speaker, really. That's probably why Dvorak thought it was the next big thing in sound, it's so dead simple that you legitimately could have seen it being added to every PC. Of course, prices for sound blaster style hardware dropped massively, and that never came to pass, but it certainly wasn't stupid.
I just wanted to say that I've been subscribed for... a number of years now, and I think it's fantastic that you've kept the quality of your videos so fantastically consistent, and so consistently fantastic for all this time. Sure, it's kind of obvious that you've adapted a little to the whole "makin money" thing, but that's fine by me. What I'm saying is, you're awesome, your videos are awesome, and I love your style.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but I believe the reason it needed an adapter for those tandys was because they had the bare PCB edge for paralel output instead of a DB-25, so you had to get an adapter which most Tandy owners of the time had to have bought at a radioshack to use any non-tandy printers. (I used to be a general mgr for radioshack back in the day)
It's an impressive device in its own right, especially when you consider the price of it back in the day. You do get a lot for such a small amount of money, relatively speaking.
Man, for years I've seen Disney Sound Source listed in old PC games, but I've never actually experienced one in action. Good on you for making this video, my friend.
This is what I used growing up. Had a CompuAdd 286 machine. Played the crap out of Wolf3d, Stunts, Battlehawks 1942, Prince of Persia, Test Drive, F19 Stealth Fighter, Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer and others. The Sound Source is all I knew, other than the PC speaker, until Windows 95!
Out of all your videos, I think I enjoy the Oddware series the most.You balance informative and enteraining quite well, and it's quite interesting to learn about hardware and software that was either a) before my time, or b) only relevant during my toddler years. As always, keep up the amazing work, Clint!
Before Windows 95, setting up sound a video cards on the PC was often a huge pain in the ass. Even adding memory was sometimes a pain. We are so spoiled now with OS drivers and such that take care of that stuff for us. JW3HH
The internal construction of it according to the pictures you have shown indicates that it is a single channel R2R dac buffered through an amplifier. (the circuit diagram shown uses the IEC symbol instead of the US variant.) Technically, it is just a crude dac tucked onto the parallel port. All incompatibilities are down to software. The chip inside the unit is a Quad opamp, that does both amplification and filtering, it is rather simple. Not being able to play music as the same time as sound effects is only down to software. The needed hardware is there.
While I definitely appreciate the history on this kind of stuff I was waiting on the edge of my seat for him to FINALLY plug it in and show off what it can do.
Somehow in Stunt Island I was able to get it to play the pre recorded pcm music (as opposed to OPL2) on a Sound Blaster 16 by telling it I had a Sound Source even though I didn't.
Very nice, my middle school had a couple of computers with Disney Sound Source, but they modded the battery holder to some 9volt power supplies, and had big old school headphones plugged into them.
Bought one back then... My parents bought the family's first PC in 1991 (we had an Apple II previously), but to keep costs down they insisted on sticking with the basics, they would NOT hear any requests for an optional sound card. Actually they bought King's Quest 5 with that computer, it might have been my desire to HEAR that game that motivated me. So, I bought Arachnophobia, which came with a Disney Sound Source (not ENTIRELY sure if I remember that Arachnophobia came with the Sound Source or the Sound Source came with Arachnophobia, but pretty sure it was the former), because back then I didn't know yet about opening computers and modifying computers and building computers, and buying a real sound card would have required my parents' cooperation to have it installed. :) So, I got sound without having to open up the computer. Win-win! 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.
Heh, the more you know. Back when I was a kid trying to setup the sound for these old DOS games I always wondered what the hell this Disney Sound Source thing was and why it was compatible with games like Rise of the Triad.
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.
I actually had one of these back in the early '90s. It came with some Mickey Mouse educational software my parents bought for my little brother. The Sound Source was a step up from the PC Speaker, but there wasn't a whole lot of software support for it. We finally got a Sound Blaster a year later.
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).
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.
I have one of these in my junk box. Several years ago when I was playing with it I could play MP3's over it. I wish IBM would have made this as a base for it's music capabilities, it would have been amazing what people would have came up with.
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).
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.
I paused the beginning and when I resumed the slight sheen to Clint and the casualness of the video made it feel like he was doing this drunk. Which makes the whole thing funnier.
I remember, back in the late '90s, when setting up sound for Duke 3D and seeing this "Disney Sound Source" in the list and wondering what the hell that was. Well, now I know... 20 years later...
I wonder what would happen if you plug the Sound Source to a phone using that RJ11. Probably nothing, but still it would be hilarious to listen to your game's sound effects through the earpiece of a telephone :D
It's a simple R2R DAC which plugs into your parallel port...there was lots of support for these types of devices at the time of release, and it's not hard to build one yourself.
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.
I have mine hooked up to my Tandy 1000RLX right now so i can have nice sound effects in wolf3d. still have to figure out something for the music though maybe ill make up an 8bit isa card with a Yamaha YMF262 OPL-3 FM chip and DAC and amp.
I am so happy that I grew up at a time where sound cards went extinct. Every Computer had them by then and when Games asked me for those special sound settings I just guessed and was usually right. Only until now do I understand why sound and music worked seperatly. XD
Parallel port on your motherboard?!? I thought all pre PCI computers used multi-io cards to add the HD, Serial and Parallel ports to the system? I remember having a winbond multi-IO vesa local bus card in my first PC (An AMD 486DX2-80) ? I always assumed PC's before that used ISA cards.
Figures. Yesterday I watch your review on Disney's Coaster game and leave a comment about how I remember a friend having it and using the Disney Sound Source on it. Yeesh, I'm just going to go out on a limb and guess you have already reviewed anything I might know and leave it at that. Unless you haven't ever played "Ultimate Wizard" on C64... ;-).
Wow! I was working for Disney Software (as it was named by then) when we came out with the Disney Sound Source. For its time, it wasn't that bad. We were actually pretty proud of it. There was a nice "hidden Mickey" change to the Sound Source where the sound vents on top appeared in the shape of Mickey's head and ears. Its neat to see it so many years later. Thank you for the video!
This was my first soundcard. Cool to see the people working with these commenting the content Clint created long time ago. He will prob never see these old comments.
Micky Mouse empowered hardware to fight the forces of evil in Wolfenstein 3D... what a dream.
The Walt Disney Company supported punching Nazis since 1942.
While watching this vid I realized that I finally can understand spoken english without any problems, without need for subtitles or anything.
I'm gonna assume English is not your first language and give you a congrats! And a mighty hurrah!!
Congrats, same here.
I'M NOT CLAUDE FROLLO ANYMORE congrats:-) you have made a step into a larger world...
So can I…
Your grammar is even better than most people with English as their native language.
It's weird hearing a Disney device saying "Shake it Baby".
I found myself laughing when you called the parallel adapter a "Speech thing". Then you followed with a close-up shot revealing the products name "Speech thing". LOL
tonytigeer 😂😂
Because the Covox Speech Thing is actually called like that, a speech thing.
Marketing: "We need that a name for that cheap sound card you were developing, any suggestions?"
Engineer: "Which sound card? You mean that .. speech thing?"
Marketing: "That will do!"
What I like in this show is the fact that you can watch an episode from a decade ago and the content is still "up to date"!
Evandro Araújo So True!
I know what you mean
It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that "Covex Speech Thing" is the actual name of the device, and not just a series of brain farts...
Hi, this is Harry who built the clone device shown in the Covox Speech Thing video - really enjoyed seeing the Disney Sound Source, I've never actually seen one working before - I must say that the sound quality from it was a bit disappointing though!
Oh my, I remember being around severn years old playing all the DOS games I had, and seeing that "Disney Sound Source" in their setups, and wondering: "what on earth does wolfenstein have to do with little mermaid"? :D I forgot about it until now and the mystery is finally revealed to me. :)
How old are you?
When I was a kid, hearing voice recordings coming from a PC was pretty impressive. I probably would have sat there and played every single sound file off that disk out of sheer awe.
But then we got an Amiga and it could do that sort of thing out of the box. AMAZEBANG
Jealous. I was so jealous of Amiga and Atari St having all this amazing sound and graphics and PC was so far behind 😢
The MOD File played at the end is fantastic. I'd love to hear the whole thing played through the Sound Source. Adds a nice feel to what we heard
Some Jungle vibes!
This brings back some amazing memories. I got this thing bundled with a game called “The Rocketeer” from Software ETC back in 1991. I remember it sounding so amazing when I first installed it but it didn’t work for anything else without crazy hacks 😂
Duke Nukem 3D isn't educational?
It is an exception rather than the rule.
Why would you think that
It teaches you how make those alien bastards pay for shooting up your ride.
It is, it teached us how to kick ass and chew bubble gum
@@morrislee8512 And now we're all out of bubble gum...
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 :)
you see people like REREZ, with modern "studios" and professional like reviews, and then there's LGR, moquette and feets with not even the socks on...
10/10 relatable
Pajama pants and all
LGR reviews are so calming though, and make me wanna sleep. Also enjoy the stuff in the video at same time so it's perfect for bedtime
Never thought I'd hear digitized liquid drum n bass but its pretty good :)
Oh the memories. I used to have this. Bought it at a computer show (remember those? 😅). Whats odd, these game companies put a lot of effort into the sounds they produced back in the day. Especially the music. And it was different levels to it depending on what hardware. At the time I was little and didn't understand the tech behind it all, but it was definitely some differences in music played on this device vs SoundBlaster's. I was so excited to get the SB upgrade!
back then I always had a sound blaster. I remember editing my autoexec.bat and config.sys to free up conventional memory and load drivers high.
Heh, it's a pretty clever little thing. A resistor ladder is basically the simplest DAC you can make - it's literally just a bunch of resistors after all. And that's all it is. Everything else is done in software... a lot like the PC speaker, really. That's probably why Dvorak thought it was the next big thing in sound, it's so dead simple that you legitimately could have seen it being added to every PC.
Of course, prices for sound blaster style hardware dropped massively, and that never came to pass, but it certainly wasn't stupid.
I just wanted to say that I've been subscribed for... a number of years now, and I think it's fantastic that you've kept the quality of your videos so fantastically consistent, and so consistently fantastic for all this time. Sure, it's kind of obvious that you've adapted a little to the whole "makin money" thing, but that's fine by me.
What I'm saying is, you're awesome, your videos are awesome, and I love your style.
2019 and Clint is still great!
I've greatly enjoyed the evolution of Clint's facial hair over the years.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but I believe the reason it needed an adapter for those tandys was because they had the bare PCB edge for paralel output instead of a DB-25, so you had to get an adapter which most Tandy owners of the time had to have bought at a radioshack to use any non-tandy printers. (I used to be a general mgr for radioshack back in the day)
Nice to be able to finally see one of these after hearing them being mentioned a countless amount of times in other videos. Pretty awesome.
So many great shots on this video, you really didn't let any detail go by. Amazing work as always, man.
It's an impressive device in its own right, especially when you consider the price of it back in the day. You do get a lot for such a small amount of money, relatively speaking.
Anyone ever told you that you kind of sound like duke nukem?
Considering I've been paid to perform the voice of Duke for certain things... yes :)
Lazy Game Reviews Reviewing games, Duke Nukem style.
Lazy Game Reviews What have you voiced Duke in?
other youtube videos, i think
LGR Your occasional lapses into Duke Nukem's voice are one of my favourite things about your videos.
Man, for years I've seen Disney Sound Source listed in old PC games, but I've never actually experienced one in action. Good on you for making this video, my friend.
Wasn't expecting to hear drum n bass track playing at the end. Very coo
Do you think it's too late to register for the warranty? xD
This is what I used growing up. Had a CompuAdd 286 machine. Played the crap out of Wolf3d, Stunts, Battlehawks 1942, Prince of Persia, Test Drive, F19 Stealth Fighter, Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer and others. The Sound Source is all I knew, other than the PC speaker, until Windows 95!
That resistor network you show at 16:34 is actually a crude DAC.
Chad Bob i.e. a D/A or an Digital to Analogue converter.
I freaking love your Oddware segment, I've even built my own Covox speech thing after I saw your episode, it works pretty well..
More oddware please.
Out of all your videos, I think I enjoy the Oddware series the most.You balance informative and enteraining quite well, and it's quite interesting to learn about hardware and software that was either
a) before my time, or
b) only relevant during my toddler years.
As always, keep up the amazing work, Clint!
Before Windows 95, setting up sound a video cards on the PC was often a huge pain in the ass. Even adding memory was sometimes a pain. We are so spoiled now with OS drivers and such that take care of that stuff for us.
JW3HH
Man, look at that Audacity waveform as Clint's voice makes sweet sensual love to it. Hot.
Aw I wanted to hear some of those odd sound effects from floppy included in the package.
:D - another great review Clint, well done, and thank you for continuing to make these oddware oddities!
It might be a big request, but I'd love you to get your hands on a NeXTstation :)
The internal construction of it according to the pictures you have shown indicates that it is a single channel R2R dac buffered through an amplifier. (the circuit diagram shown uses the IEC symbol instead of the US variant.)
Technically, it is just a crude dac tucked onto the parallel port. All incompatibilities are down to software.
The chip inside the unit is a Quad opamp, that does both amplification and filtering, it is rather simple.
Not being able to play music as the same time as sound effects is only down to software. The needed hardware is there.
I have this loose, and also an animation/paint program published by Disney that also used it for sound.
Great Video!...I like the FM radio style mic.....Wake up with Lazy game reviews in the morning!
Cajones in the fast lane!
This is really the only place where you can get all your Disney Sound Source information needs covered. About time!
While I definitely appreciate the history on this kind of stuff I was waiting on the edge of my seat for him to FINALLY plug it in and show off what it can do.
I love your Oddware Vids I have seen everyone of them and can't wait to see more.
Lol, Dvorak also said that no one would want to use a mouse.
Somehow in Stunt Island I was able to get it to play the pre recorded pcm music (as opposed to OPL2) on a Sound Blaster 16 by telling it I had a Sound Source even though I didn't.
Very nice, my middle school had a couple of computers with Disney Sound Source, but they modded the battery holder to some 9volt power supplies, and had big old school headphones plugged into them.
the production value from 2013 to 2018 sure has changed !
Thanks for the sources Clint. Great vid too as always.
Bought one back then... My parents bought the family's first PC in 1991 (we had an Apple II previously), but to keep costs down they insisted on sticking with the basics, they would NOT hear any requests for an optional sound card. Actually they bought King's Quest 5 with that computer, it might have been my desire to HEAR that game that motivated me. So, I bought Arachnophobia, which came with a Disney Sound Source (not ENTIRELY sure if I remember that Arachnophobia came with the Sound Source or the Sound Source came with Arachnophobia, but pretty sure it was the former), because back then I didn't know yet about opening computers and modifying computers and building computers, and buying a real sound card would have required my parents' cooperation to have it installed. :) So, I got sound without having to open up the computer. Win-win!
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.
Plugging the two sound interfaces together?
Mind = Blown
Not related but I love the designs of Blue mics. That Snowball mic and shockmount are cool as eff.
Heh, the more you know. Back when I was a kid trying to setup the sound for these old DOS games I always wondered what the hell this Disney Sound Source thing was and why it was compatible with games like Rise of the Triad.
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.
I actually had one of these back in the early '90s. It came with some Mickey Mouse educational software my parents bought for my little brother. The Sound Source was a step up from the PC Speaker, but there wasn't a whole lot of software support for it. We finally got a Sound Blaster a year later.
Awesome video as usual. You have a voice made for commercials ^^
I'd love to see vintage video cards reviews and such.
I love watching these while eating
What an interesting piece of oddware. Thanks for the vid dude!
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).
Are you wearing pajama pants? lol
You know it.
+Lazy Game Reviews PJ pants are comfy for long editing sessions, amirite?
+Lazy Game Reviews i have infinite respect for you
I was wondering exactly the same, glad someone asked!
Yep, I wear mine at home all day if I am planing not to go out anywhere that day.
those voice clips reminds me so much of the office in Grim Fandango :O
have you ever thought of being a narrator
I narrate TH-cam videos ;)
Lazy Game Reviews good one ☝️
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.
I use to have one! o wow. Great channel , and devilish humor!
I have one of these in my junk box. Several years ago when I was playing with it I could play MP3's over it. I wish IBM would have made this as a base for it's music capabilities, it would have been amazing what people would have came up with.
Oldschool LGR are amazing to watch :D
I'm wondering what would happen if you plugged in the Speech Thing module into a standard phone jack...
Juan Reynoso My guess would be it would fry. A telephone line carries 48 to 90 volts DC, depending on if the phone is on the hook, or ringing, etc.
I have no clue.
Juan Reynoso It would summon the ghost of Walt Disney, I guess..
Where did you get that Portal 2 Aperture Science Safety First Sign? I'm searching that for Months
From Valve!
AntoniRockReykern
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).
Man thanks for adding me on facebook dude might I say you are very interactive with your audience. Thats a great way to grow your channel
This was 8 years ago but wow clint looks so much younger without the beard.
Love your content. i so rarely see other people named Clint.
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.
Haha, great Aladdin quote at the end there.
I paused the beginning and when I resumed the slight sheen to Clint and the casualness of the video made it feel like he was doing this drunk. Which makes the whole thing funnier.
Thanks for supplying a download link for the included wav files. Some of them are quite funny. :D
I remember, back in the late '90s, when setting up sound for Duke 3D and seeing this "Disney Sound Source" in the list and wondering what the hell that was. Well, now I know... 20 years later...
god I love this channel.
I wonder what would happen if you plug the Sound Source to a phone using that RJ11. Probably nothing, but still it would be hilarious to listen to your game's sound effects through the earpiece of a telephone :D
Nice pants man. Can you do an oddware episode on those?
I want an mp3 of that song that was played on the modplay thing
Great video, it felt like old school LGR :)
I once bought a 1.44" floppy with Star Trek audio files at a convention so I understand the desire to include random sound clips
It's a simple R2R DAC which plugs into your parallel port...there was lots of support for these types of devices at the time of release, and it's not hard to build one yourself.
douro20 actually the sound source was a bit more complicated, the covox isn’t though
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.
i used to have this, had some really good games on it like rocketeer.
jannu jokunen Me too! Rocketeer was great game with exellent sounds with tvis device. Allthough, last level was hell.
Wait, Disney released a PC game based on the movie Arachnophobia?!
I tried to not be distracted by the flannel pants. I really did. That proved to be difficult.
Ah, the Sound Source, one of the many hand-me-down electronic bits I got from my dad's coworkers. Sierra games worked ok on it, as I recall.
3:34 Minnie looks good in a swimming suit.
I have mine hooked up to my Tandy 1000RLX right now so i can have nice sound effects in wolf3d. still have to figure out something for the music though maybe ill make up an 8bit isa card with a Yamaha YMF262 OPL-3 FM chip and DAC and amp.
I am so happy that I grew up at a time where sound cards went extinct. Every Computer had them by then and when Games asked me for those special sound settings I just guessed and was usually right. Only until now do I understand why sound and music worked seperatly. XD
"I will have to not look into that, because I don't care enough" ... If only sales guys were as honest as you!
Parallel port on your motherboard?!? I thought all pre PCI computers used multi-io cards to add the HD, Serial and Parallel ports to the system? I remember having a winbond multi-IO vesa local bus card in my first PC (An AMD 486DX2-80) ? I always assumed PC's before that used ISA cards.
I like how you're in your pajamas with no shoes on. Rock on!
I became aware by watching this video. Thanks for making me aware, awaremaker.
16:45 I thought so! All through the video I thought to myself "I remember DN3D had the Sound Source as an option in its setup", and there it is.
I remember having this, had such limited use but it was awesome all the same.
Well, Disney Software released games on CD-ROM in 1994 with Super VGA graphics such as The Aladdin Activity Center & The Lion King Animated Storybook.
Figures. Yesterday I watch your review on Disney's Coaster game and leave a comment about how I remember a friend having it and using the Disney Sound Source on it. Yeesh, I'm just going to go out on a limb and guess you have already reviewed anything I might know and leave it at that. Unless you haven't ever played "Ultimate Wizard" on C64... ;-).