Re: DOSBox SVN - Qemu on M1 benchmark comparison discussion

Posted on 2021-05-16, 21:06

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Sure, of course emulation (even TCG) doesn't hold a candle to hardware-assisted virtualization, but my bigger point was that x86 won't reign supreme forever, so it's good to have reasonably performant emulation solutions on different architectures as well. As a matter of fact, that is exactly what …

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Re: DOSBox SVN - Qemu on M1 benchmark comparison discussion

Posted on 2021-05-16, 14:30

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That's pretty impressive performance! Those M1 chips really are amazing, even when passively cooled (!). Think of Apple what you will, but they seem to be single-handedly breaking the decades-long stranglehold that the x86 architecture has had on the desktop/laptop market. (Yes, I know, it's their …

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Re: ABIT BH6, is it dead?

Posted on 2021-05-16, 14:09

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Hey, I was joking with you about calling Abit, but I feel you, man. It sucks to have a computer component fail on you, especially one that is becoming increasingly rare. I hope you can find someone skilled, friendly and enthusiastic enough who's willing to repair the board for you for a reasonable …

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Re: ABIT BH6, is it dead?

Posted on 2021-05-15, 18:40

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retrogamerguy1997 wrote on 2021-05-15, 18:26: I don't have a soldering iron and have no skills in that area. Call Abit. Ask them to send over one of those technicians. 😄

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Re: MPU-232 : RS-232 MIDI interface, compatible with SoftMPU

Posted on 2021-05-15, 18:36

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Don't hold your breath, many other projects queued Hmmm, in that case, is it still in an early enough stage of development that the design is open for suggestions? I have some ideas about such a device that I'd be happy to run by you. If feasible, of course. I totally understand if you prefer to …

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Re: ABIT BH6, is it dead?

Posted on 2021-05-15, 18:16

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As several others here have already mentioned, this particular model suffered from bad caps. It was released during the "capacitor plague" around the turn of the Millennium. I remember it well, since I worked as a sales rep at a computer store when this board was released. Right up until the release …

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Re: MPU-232 : RS-232 MIDI interface, compatible with SoftMPU

Posted on 2021-05-15, 17:25

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dreamblaster wrote on 2021-05-15, 11:33: yes, DSS is also in the pipeline Ooh, goodie! 🥳 I'm going to refrain from asking you for a timeline and await your next announcements patiently. 😁

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Re: Best tracker MODS ever [1988-2020]

Posted on 2021-05-13, 15:50

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Some of my favorites: Stardust Memories (surprised no one had mentioned this one here yet, quite frankly :heart_eyes:) "Trial" https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=175932 Cebit '90 (from the demo by Red Sector) Epic Pinball intro music Silverball intro music Pinball …

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Re: Color inkjet for DOS, Win 3.x, and Win9x

Posted on 2021-05-13, 15:26

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...always had trouble with the ink drying out, the heads getting clogged, and them having trouble actually picking up the paper... I bought a (cheap) laser printer because I was too lazy and let the ink dry out. This. Right here. I remember going through several different printer technologies: 9- …

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Re: MPU-232 : RS-232 MIDI interface, compatible with SoftMPU

Posted on 2021-05-13, 14:21

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@dreamblaster Just my luck. One day before you anounced this, while I was ordering some stuff at Serdashop for the first time, I was thinking why there wasn't exactly such a product available. For the longest time I had been putting off my intention to purchase an OPL3LPT and some other items. But …

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Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?

Posted on 2021-05-13, 13:56

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DSP Solutions offered quite a few interesting downloads for the various Digispeech devices, both the DS201A and the later Plus devices. Here is an Internet Archive snapshot of that downloads page: https://web.archive.org/web/19980626124640/http://www.dsps.com:80/htmldocs/filelib.html One of the more …

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Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?

Posted on 2021-05-13, 13:39

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what I saw in LGR's Oddware was struggling to play both digital sound and adlib at the same time under DOS. Yes, but two counterpoints to that: Duke Nukem 2 is a finicky game to get working with emulators and even many sound cards that claim Sound Blaster compatibility in hardware, due to the game …

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Re: Can anybody with AC'97 audio please help me test a DOS player? 😊

Posted on 2021-05-13, 08:23

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All the thanks should go to Jeff Leyda. It's still mostly his code. All I simply did was pushing it to GitHub, adding a few simple tweaks to enable it to work with more chipsets, adding some command-line arguments for volume control and unmuting, and figuring out how to assemble the code using the …

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Re: Simple Arduino based PS/2 to Serial Mouse Adapter

Posted on 2021-05-09, 23:53

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Thanks for correcting me. Good to know that the PicoPSU will work fine for this. 🙂

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Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?

Posted on 2021-05-09, 20:11

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http://philipstorr.id.au/pcbook/book2/parallel.htm does it require specific type of lpt port? does it work with normal SPP one? how does its SB emulation work? does it require 386 cpu? How does it intercept port 220 writes? Yes, it requires a 386+ and it traps access to those ports. Ditto for DMA …

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Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread

Posted on 2021-05-09, 18:26

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I made a video of the Digispeech DS201A serial port audio device, as a follow-up to LGR's recent Oddware video on the Digispeech Plus. "Audio over the serial port? 🤔 Getting Dune II to output sound over a Digispeech DS201A" https://youtu.be/phW38JIJOpM Sorry for the unsteady camera. I was holding my …

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Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?

Posted on 2021-05-09, 13:55

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Man I wish someone could recreate this device (or at least it's board) with modern components. Both DS311 and DS301 are extremely rare, and that's unfortunate, because, unlike DS201, this is basically Sound Blaster on a parallel port. If you want sound on your old DOS laptop (or, perhaps, if you …

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Re: Simple Arduino based PS/2 to Serial Mouse Adapter

Posted on 2021-05-09, 12:57

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Speaking of -12V, would your adapter (or Matze's adapter for that matter) work on a system lacking a -12V rail? I'm looking for a solution that would work in a Tandy 1000 that would be powered by a PicuPSU, which, as I understand it, cannot provide -12V. This computer lacks integrated serial ports …

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Re: Another PS/2 Mouse ISA (ISA8) card adapter

Posted on 2021-05-09, 12:44

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Does this card require -12V (as in negative 12V)? I'm asking this, because I'm considering a solution like this for my Tandy 1000 EX, since it doesn't have any serial ports. But I'd also like to use a PicoPSU to power that system, and the PicoPSU does not provide a -12V rail, as far as I've …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-05-06, 07:42

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Oh, no! :( Time to open it up and see if anything other than the fuse let the smoke out. I didn't smell anything burnt out. What would be a visual way to check for such damage? You might not be able to spot such damage from the outside, right? Strange. When I accidentally flipped the 115/230 switch …

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