Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi

Posted on Yesterday, 16:22

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I thought I'd might let Falcosoft know that the Midi Player has a really hard time looping XMI's for some reason. The XMI's from Blackthorne and Jagged Alliance loop at wildly improper positions compared to what I hear actually ingame and with XMIPLAY. Since EMIDI was brought up earlier, I noticed …

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Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi

Posted on Yesterday, 14:44

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I thought I'd might let Falcosoft know that the Midi Player has a really hard time looping XMI's for some reason. The XMI's from Blackthorne and Jagged Alliance loop at wildly improper positions compared to what I hear actually ingame and with XMIPLAY. Since EMIDI was brought up earlier, I noticed …

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Re: Nightdive Studios shelves Linux and macOS for System Shock

Posted on Yesterday, 12:30

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Were those not "Kickstarter Milestone Goals"? As in, if enough people backed the fundraiser up to a certain point they're obligated to work on said milestone? I can understand MacOS support costing a lot because Apple being the "walled garden" that it is, wants everything to be "code signed" and …

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Re: XMI file subsongs to seperate MIDI files conversion utility?

Posted on 2024-05-21, 07:08

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rfnagel wrote on 2024-05-20, 21:31: I found a utility that seems to work! The utility will extract and convert all of the subsongs in a single XMI file to separate MIDI files 😀 SSPlayer_v1.0.zip Good find, thanks Rich!

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-20, 11:09

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This game looks like it came out in 1997, so it makes sense. Well, not only was it a late MS-DOS game the MIDI music is incredibly sparse (only three songs with huge gaps in filenames: MUS3.mid MUS4.mid MUS6.mid and most of the expected soundtrack is CD audio, but I don't stream the game with CD …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-20, 08:41

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Kappa971 wrote on 2024-05-20, 08:24: One last question, how many DOS games saturate the polyphony of the original SC-55? Sandwarriors definitely does. And this is with me spacing out the "Voice Reservation" values to be "evenly distributed" amongst the 16 parts for the 28 possible voices.

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Re: XMI file subsongs to seperate MIDI files conversion utility?

Posted on 2024-05-20, 07:54

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You know, I'd be curious about a utility as well just to beable to piece together the System Shock 1 XMI's anyway I want them, but I would need like you said; Standard MIDI Files of each individual subsong by itself.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-05-20, 07:53

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clueless1 wrote on 2024-05-19, 18:13: I meant to say index finger on W. My bad. Here's a pic I sneaked: But... Now I'm only even more confused!

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-05-19, 16:26

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For some reason, it's completely foreign to her even though she holds her hand that way when she types. For now, she holds her index finger on E, the rest of her fingers hang near/off the left keyboard edge, and her thumb is somewhere around F. :shrug: I'm having a extremely hard time picturing …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-19, 08:07

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I meant commenting out. Sorry, I have not tried it on latest master (I have tested it on a fork of mine that diverged from latest master earlier). On latest master you have to disable (I mean commenting out) also the following part in mcu.cpp (lines 1008-1010) in order no-oversampling code path to …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-19, 06:37

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... 1. the hardware does 2x oversampling, so emulating this accurately is a must. 2. it's a Nuked-SC55 special, and the digital circuit simulation is doing twice the work unnecessarily. 3. it's a Nuked-SC55 special, the digital circuit simulation runs at the correct 32k rate, then there's some …

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Re: What does it take to run Brutal Doom with complex maps on GZDoom with acceptable (24+) framerate?

Posted on 2024-05-16, 10:44

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What I don't understand is that some people claim that it's playable on their core i7 7700 with GTX 1060 but that CPU is not that much better than my E3-1230. Not sure what to think now unless someone tried GZDoom with BD on a map like Eviternity 2 Myriad and it was playable. Well, I'm gaming on a …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-05-16, 07:22

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I don't know why but I started playing "Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst" on the "EdenServ" private server again. I've been streaming it too: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2146498646 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2146099364 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2144593794 I've had this user account on "Eden" …

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Re: Okay but did you ever PURCHASE WinRAR?

Posted on 2024-05-16, 07:09

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A retro streamer I watch on Twitch by the name of DoctorCDCS actually bought WinRAR but had it physically shipped. I don't know what kind of disc is light blue on the data track side; I guess he was shipped a CD-R rather than a stamped disc? I've always just used the 7-zip format and relied on the …

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Re: What does it take to run Brutal Doom with complex maps on GZDoom with acceptable (24+) framerate?

Posted on 2024-05-16, 06:57

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Probably nothing. The "Brutal Doom" series of ZDoom/GZDoom mods are notorious for having very poorly written scripts (ACS, DECORATE, you name it) that really trip up the VM overhead in GZDoom itself. GZDoom's primary present shaders are also very large and already put a huge overhead on what is …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2024-05-11, 11:00

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Ancient DOS Games Episode 327 - Isle of the Dead is online! My favourite thing about this game is the extremely terrible version of all the music. But, I don't remember which version of the game had said terrible music. Said version has lower music tempo, way less timbres, and generally sounds " …

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Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-10, 01:34

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I can't do multi monitor so the best option for me actually is 4K. A single 3840x2160 monitor is literally 4 1920x1080 screens rolled into one. I have more than enough screen real-estate to keep a eye on my Twitch chat, OBS, the game I'm playing and whatever MIDI system I need to have in use. …

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Re: what is the coolest/most unique GPU art you have ever seen on a graphics card

Posted on 2024-05-10, 01:21

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leileilol wrote on 2024-05-10, 00:15: but what I do consider pretty cards are the Hercules shiny blue PCBs I think I've seen shiny blue PCBs a long time ago but I also remember lavender coloured PCBs though I don't remember which company used lavender coloured PCBs for their stuff.

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-04, 14:54

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Rincewind42 wrote on 2024-05-04, 07:00: and the SCVA will essentially bitrot away as it's a dead product, apparently. Wait, what? Roland doesn't let you buy it anymore?

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-04, 04:51

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Another advantage of Nuked SC55 over SCVA is portability. I don’t really feel like spinning up a copy of Falcosoft MIDI Player in wine to host a virtual midi port on Linux. Then again, I guess it’s not much more or less overhead than running an instance of the emulator, except I have to use a drm …

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