Re: Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business (3DFX) in pure DOS

Posted on Today, 07:34

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by Agent of the BSoD

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Looks like it wants Windows for whatever reason even though it's a DOS program. Very weird. Thanks for the confirmation. Do you also not get CD audio with the UB disc inserted? During the new levels I mean. I do not, which is also weird because they should be there, and the menu music works just …

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Re: Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business (3DFX) in pure DOS

Posted on Today, 05:15

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I just tried it out on my rig (DOS 7.1) using my Gold discs and my Voodoo 1, both using the Voodoo 1 patch. Base game works perfectly fine in pure DOS, Unfinished Business does not. Same symptom: black screen and the system hard locks there, making me have to press the reset switch as it doesn't …

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Re: SC-55 mkII "No Instrument" Message With canyon.mid and passport.mid

Posted on 2021-05-23, 00:29

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by Agent of the BSoD

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in Marvin \ Sound

Well I am just talking about the file that came with my Win3.1 installation. I didn't download this one in particular and check. Hmm, maybe that version of the file isn't the same as the one with Win98SE so it doesn't have this same issue. Still, good to know that this was just an issue with these …

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Re: SC-55 mkII "No Instrument" Message With canyon.mid and passport.mid

Posted on 2021-05-22, 17:43

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That's funny. On my mkii I don't have to specifically turn on GM mode for it to work. It plays Canyon just fine in the factory default. I just double checked the attached MIDIs above. The first one does indeed say No Instrument in normal operation but is fine in GM mode. Have you run the first …

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Re: SC-55 mkII "No Instrument" Message With canyon.mid and passport.mid

Posted on 2021-05-22, 06:43

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Thanks all for the replies. Very informative! Hi, No Instrument means invalid bank + program combination. Contrary to original SC-55 the mkII has no Capital Tone Fallback feature so it remains silent on channels where invalid combination is found. There are multiple versions of canyon.mid/passport. …

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SC-55 mkII "No Instrument" Message With canyon.mid and passport.mid

Posted on 2021-05-21, 20:42

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So I just picked up an SC-55 mkII and everything seems to work great except this weird behavior with these MIDI files. On both canyon.mid and passport.mid, channel 1 presents a "No INSTRUMENT" message and is in silence, while the rest of the channels play fine. I found this odd since after …

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Re: Apparently not all GS-only sc-55s are the same, some are GM

Posted on 2021-05-19, 19:39

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I just picked up an SC-55 mkII and peculiarly it has ROM version 1.00 instead of 1.01, which I think the latter is more common. I wonder what would be changed between the two. From reading this thread, it's probably something that I'll never encounter. Looks like it's dated 03/17/1993 and the number …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2021-03-23, 17:36

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It becomes much easier if you're able to display an image that alternates black and white pixels. Doing so will allow you to much more easily find the correct phase and other adjustments. The phase on everything is different, even if it's coming from the same piece of hardware (two identical video …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2021-03-17, 17:25

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This ended up being a much longer post than I intended, but here you are. Maybe someone will find this wall of text useful. For my E1S, the most reliable way for me to get good captures (or even just previews) is having VCS open and having OBS doing window capture of the VCS screen, with the source …

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Re: S3 AGP Cards (and possibly others) Too Bright

Posted on 2021-01-26, 19:34

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I was actually just wondering about this as well the other day, as I purchased another GX2 in the hopes that it would be correct, which it wasn't. While the small tools provided work fine under DOS, you can't use them in Windows. If there was a reliable way to patch each VBIOS (from what I gather, a …

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Re: Rendition Verite Thread

Posted on 2020-12-01, 03:30

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How does one use renutil? I can't find any documentation on it and simply running it changes nothing. It looks like you can pass through some input but I can't tell what I should be doing, and there seems to be no built in help. If anything, I've had it drop performance of applications by half or …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-31, 02:58

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Yeah, the dither is much better on my screen now (I was the one with the image of the bad crosstalk). It's still there with the title portion of each post but is incredibly faint that I don't even think my camera would pick it up, so this doesn't bother me anymore. My phone also had some flickering …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-29, 19:31

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...is there a way to bring back the page numbers next to the post title? So that you can quickly go to the last page of eleventy pages long threads. This. I miss this. It made it easier to instantly jump to a page when you know that the thread has progressed another page worth of posts and you know …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-29, 06:29

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I'm getting used to the new layout. I actually like the way the text is, easier for me to read without having to move closer to the monitor. After lurking on here a little and just reading this thread, I'm pretty comfortable with it. There is one minor thing though, and this likely affects a very …

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Re: What's your home/everyday PC?

Posted on 2018-10-20, 17:19

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@Agent of the BSoD Did you benchmark your Pentium D rig? Great, now I want to see Cinebench run on the slowest clocked Pentium D for laughs. :lol: Mine isn't the slowest clocked Pentium D, infact it's the fastest Smithfield one, the 840 @ 3.2 GHz, so I can't grant you that one. If anything, I could …

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Re: What's your home/everyday PC?

Posted on 2018-10-18, 21:47

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Koltoroc wrote: That is likely because google has been slowly switching codecs from H.264 to VP9, VP9 is more efficient but needs more power to decode and it has no real hardware decoding support yet. Yep, that's exactly what it is. Ever since they started switching, that system has had real …

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Re: What's your home/everyday PC?

Posted on 2018-10-18, 21:22

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Was the Pentium D that slow? It is. That machine is a slug by today's standards. It gets crippled by everything now. Youtube is pretty much out on it for certain resolutions/framerates. For example, it can't really cope with 1080p playback, or any mode that uses 60fps, it just can't keep up. I had …

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Re: What's your home/everyday PC?

Posted on 2018-10-16, 05:26

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I built my desktop back in April of 2017. CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 (kept at stock clocks and stock cooler, both of which works fine for me) Mobo: Asus Prime B350-Plus RAM: 16GB DDR4-2400 in dual channel SSD: Samsung 960 EVO 500GB M.2 HDD: WD Black 2TB GPU: GTX 1080 PSU: Corsair RMx 650W Case: Phanteks …

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Re: Music Quest MPU clone cards, anyone interested in them?

Posted on 2018-07-27, 22:27

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by Agent of the BSoD

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Replacement bracket arrived a few hours ago. After looking at them side by side, yeah, the original one of mine was bent at a weird angle, with the screw part not bent down as far as it should've been. But this new one is perfect, installed with no trouble. Thanks again!

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Re: Music Quest MPU clone cards, anyone interested in them?

Posted on 2018-07-16, 20:38

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PM sent. Thanks again.

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