Re: The 3 voice sound PCjr/Tandy 1000 games patching thread!

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by carlostex

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You probably can add Ski or Die to your list. If I remember correctly and my entry in matze's spreadsheet is correct you can replace adski.smb with tnski.smb and start the game with "s.exe adlib" to get tndy 3-voice music. Edit: I do not have any problems with port 0xC0 on my 286 PCs. However, to …

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Re: New sound card(s) project(s): Vortex2 Tribute

Posted on 2020-11-28, 23:13

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by carlostex

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That's exactly the reason why I opt for the codec... We still lack a coder in our team, a simple dirty hack always requires lots of efforts and other people involvement :( Also, if you're using one of the YMF7x4 chips in your design keep in mind that unfortunately there's an issue with these …

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Re: Tandy Nano - 3 Voice Soundcard ISA - Lowprofile

Posted on 2020-11-28, 15:28

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by carlostex

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Very nice there matze79!!

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Re: games that are better on a Macintosh

Posted on 2020-11-18, 21:39

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I love how on the Macintosh version of Chuck Yeager's Air Combat they just recorded the music from an AdLib card.

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Re: The 3 voice sound PCjr/Tandy 1000 games patching thread!

Posted on 2020-11-18, 21:17

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by carlostex

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BTW i have great news! ripsaw8080 was kind to contribute with another patch! Now you can enjoy Budokan with 3 voice Tandy sound!

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Re: The 3 voice sound PCjr/Tandy 1000 games patching thread!

Posted on 2020-11-18, 19:22

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by carlostex

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Do you also patch the hard coded I/O address games to use "int 0c0h" instead of "out 0c0h" so people can use the games without port redirection software that requires a 386 or better? I remember scali describing this method and I thought he said it was you doing it but I could be wrong No, that …

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Re: Dune II HD port at last!

Posted on 2020-11-18, 18:41

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by carlostex

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For a brief moment i misunderstood this ran on SVGA on pure DOS. Oh well.

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The 3 voice sound PCjr/Tandy 1000 games patching thread!

Posted on 2020-11-16, 19:36

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by carlostex

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Hi friends, since the first hardware became available for 3 voice sound on non-Tandy PC's i sorta became the official curator for patched binaries, that circumvent PCjr/Tandy 1000 machine detection, in order to playback on third party hardware. Back then, there was only the lo tech Tandy card, but …

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Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2020-11-03, 11:46

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by carlostex

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I know little about this CPU. What's the minimum multiplier? 2x? Has anyone checked the datasheet to see if multiplier can be software controllable? Does it have the same TR12 registers as the normal desktop MMX?

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Re: Multi-Soundcard Industrial Computer Project

Posted on 2020-11-01, 15:23

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by carlostex

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Although you have a good number of sound cards, i see a lot of redundancy. It's better to lose the SB16 and keep the AWE64, because you'll have EMU8000 synth and SB16 digital part. An SB Pro and a Maxi Sound 64 is also redundant, unless the reason is the OPL3 difference, but you already have a PAS16 …

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Re: Multi-Soundcard Industrial Computer Project

Posted on 2020-11-01, 15:09

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by carlostex

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Pretty cool, love these projects. I have a similar one, but without the usefulness of a complete industrial backplane setup: https://youtu.be/kk6nyrX4DK8 Everything mounted on a Corsair Obsidian case with 9 expansion slots. I did of course had to extend the ISA bus with a small backplane. Sound …

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Re: In summary: the top 10 DOS games 1981-1991

Posted on 2020-10-28, 20:02

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by carlostex

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Starflight is the finest game for DOS in 1986.

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Re: Tandy Sound Patches Thread / Howto Patch for 0E0 Port Support

Posted on 2020-10-23, 20:23

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by carlostex

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Any point in continuing to pursue port 0E0h? Port 090h seems a much better candidate to work in systems from 286 up to Pentium when port 0C0h does not work. At least on my Intel 430TX system port 090h worked well vs port 0E0h or others i tried. Only systems that port 090h won't work is on IBM PS/2's …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-10-19, 19:18

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by carlostex

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Received my Orpheus card in the mail today. Such a pretty looking card! Looking forward to putting it through its paces soon :D I'm especially curious to find out how it compares to some of my other cards, like the Turtle Beach Tropez Plus. Btw, what is the purpose of the header/jumper labelled " …

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Re: Tandy 3 Voice Sound - SN76489 ISA Soundcard Project

Posted on 2020-10-18, 17:15

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by carlostex

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Driver issues almost ruled out, thanks to Dragonsphere compatibility now increased a lot! Tested so far: - Ultima 6 - Stunts Playing without any issues now! Testing Release ( Only Tandy Card @ 2C0, note this is Testing VERSION only!) command: tndy C0-C7 2C0 nosb tandy Just tried, works for the card …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-10-10, 22:53

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by carlostex

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This is a non-issue IMO, this ADPCM stuff, as for Duke Nukem 2 the compressed samples have been brought back to 8bit, so this game can be played just fine with any clone card. If it was 100 games, sure that would be annoying, but maybe a handful of games is nothing to worry about. https://www.vogons …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2020-10-06, 18:56

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by carlostex

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Congrats shock__ you deserve it! Too bad for me i couldn't back the project back in the day, i would really like an ARGUS!! In any case, its nice to see this project reach the end stage. Great work!

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Re: TNDLPT : Tandy Sound on parallel port

Posted on 2020-10-05, 12:11

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by carlostex

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Everything uploaded to the Tandy repo at ftp.oldskool.org. Readme was updated too.

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Re: TNDLPT : Tandy Sound on parallel port

Posted on 2020-10-04, 20:18

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by carlostex

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I'm curious about how you patches work. Are they custom tailored to the TNDLPT or do they use the int 0c0h + TSR trick or something like that? I'm asking because the software interrupt plus TSR variant would imply that support for further sound cards could be added without further patching. Patches …

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Re: TNDLPT : Tandy Sound on parallel port

Posted on 2020-10-04, 17:02

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by carlostex

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Besides Arkanoid i patched a couple more games, AAARGH and Rockford.

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