Hi everyone! I'm quite late to the discussion here, but I didn't want to create a brand new thread to ask such a similar question.
Anyway, I'm running Maniac Mansion (the 1989 PC Release), and my plan is to record it thusly:
A 386 Leading Edge machine, made in 1988, with an EGA Card with composite out
The EGA composite produces a relatively standard NTSC (well, NTSC is joked to stand for "Never The Same Color") image. This would feed into my DVD recorder.
The audio, which is PC speaker only, will be recorded by putting alligator clips on the boards speaker chip, and leading those out to the DVD recorder's RCA inputs. Of course, this is mono, so I'd have a mono-to-stereo splitter on that chain, too. Oh, and it is unamped, so add in an amp between the PC end and the recorder end.
Does this sound like an ok way to do it? I hope so, because I'd love to get my 6:50 run verified. Right now it seems like the fastest run in pure DOS. You can get a faster run in ScummVM it seems, but ScummVM seems to be contentious here.
Here's my proof of concept:
Thanks!
Matt
Anyway, I'm running Maniac Mansion (the 1989 PC Release), and my plan is to record it thusly:
A 386 Leading Edge machine, made in 1988, with an EGA Card with composite out
The EGA composite produces a relatively standard NTSC (well, NTSC is joked to stand for "Never The Same Color") image. This would feed into my DVD recorder.
The audio, which is PC speaker only, will be recorded by putting alligator clips on the boards speaker chip, and leading those out to the DVD recorder's RCA inputs. Of course, this is mono, so I'd have a mono-to-stereo splitter on that chain, too. Oh, and it is unamped, so add in an amp between the PC end and the recorder end.
Does this sound like an ok way to do it? I hope so, because I'd love to get my 6:50 run verified. Right now it seems like the fastest run in pure DOS. You can get a faster run in ScummVM it seems, but ScummVM seems to be contentious here.
Here's my proof of concept:
Thanks!
Matt