HP 200LX: Planet X3 Adlib / OPL3LPT Soundtrack

Описание: The HP 200LX is an MS-DOS Palmtop PC from the early 90's.

The Serdaco OPL3LPT board used in this video is an Adlib compatible sound card that connects to the PC's parallel port.
It contains a Yamaha OPL3 chip, a more modern, backward compatible stereo version of the OPL2 chip used in the popular Adlib and SoundBlaster PC sound cards from the late 80's and early 90's.
The OPL3LPT is very useful for users of older systems which lack expansion slots for sound cards, such as old laptops, palmtops and exotic PCs which cannot be expanded but have a parallel / printer port.

Planet X3 is a retro DOS game developed by The 8-bit Guy:
   • Planet X3 for MS-DOS Development - Part 1  

You can purchase a copy of Planet X3 here:
https://www.the8bitguy.com/product/pl...

The HP 200LX palmtop is an IBM PC/XT compatible MS-DOS system with a 16-bit 80186 CPU and CGA graphics system-on-a-chip, a serial port and a 16-bit PCMCIA expansion slot which in the video contains the Trans Digital PCMCIA parallel port card.
The card adds the required LPT1 port to connect to palmtop the OPL3LPT sound board.


The game has native support for the OPL2LPT and OPL3LPT parallel port sound cards.

You can purchase your very own OPL3LPT sound board on Serdaco's online shop here:
https://www.serdashop.com/OPL3LPT


Note: This 200LX as been upgraded to a 16MHz CPU clock speed (double the standard 8MHz), and has an additional 4MB of memory fitted, for a total of 5MB RAM memory.
(If you own an HP200LX and are interested in upgrading it, contact me and I can provide you with the necessary information to get started)