The
SAAYM sound card is designed for any vintage PC with a standard 8- or
16-bit ISA slot. It has three separate sound chips on board: 2 Phillips
SAA1099 programmable sound generators (PSG) and one Yamaha YM2151 FM
synthesizer chip with its accompanying YM3012 stereo DAC. The card mixes
all three stereo outputs through a high quality TL072 OPAMP and WIMA
film capacitors for the best sound possible. The output is line level
and uses a single stereo 1/8” or 3.5mm stereo headphone-style jack for
output. Amplified stereo speakers with volume adjustments are required.
This
card is a fully functional clone of the original GameBlaster or
Creative Music System (CMS) card by Creative Labs. The original card
used two SAA1099 ICs to generate sound. This card has the necessary
circuitry to allow the CMS driver to load, as well as pass detection by
games which probe for and support the CMS.
In addition to support
for GameBlaster games in DOS, this card also supports playing back VGM
files which support the YM2151. There is a great program for DOS called
SBVGM which now supports the SAAYM card! Thanks so much to OPLx for
assistance adding support for the SAAYM to SBVGM. For more information,
please read the attached documentation.
TexElec SAAYM Manual: https://texelec.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/TexElec-SAAYM-Manual.pdf
We
will have a new video of the card soon, for now, here is a link to the
prototype in action: https://www.youtube.com/embed/rMqdLTb-e_g
Please note, the boards may have different parts than pictured but retain the same functionality. Over time, some parts are discontinued, or change colors and we update them as needed.
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