Re: Can you use HxC floppy emulator to flash motherboard BIOS?

Posted on 2017-06-25, 16:21

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by Staticblast

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

bishopcop wrote: Yes, the computer recognises the drive as a normal floppy drive. It works the same way as a normal floppy including the speed at which it operates. I use a gotek with a HxC firmware and had no issues on any of my tested machines (includes 386,486, pentium I, II and III machines). …

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Can you use HxC floppy emulator to flash motherboard BIOS?

Posted on 2017-06-25, 14:03

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by Staticblast

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a motherboard that complains about a BIOS checksum error at startup. Unfortunately, the only floppy drive I have is USB-based. I was already going to purchase a HxC floppy emulator, but I'd like to know if I need an actual floppy drive to flash the BIOS, or if the HxC will work for that …

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Re: Graphics Card Fan Replacement?

Posted on 2017-06-21, 11:07

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by Staticblast

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Seems like a standard vga cooler can't see if it has mounting holes or thermal adhesive was used. I suggest also removing the the heatsink and replacing the thermal pas te. If it's glued just gently heat the heatsink and gently twist it. Usually a fan with molex is pass through fm design so you …

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Re: Graphics Card Fan Replacement?

Posted on 2017-06-20, 17:04

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by Staticblast

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A pic of the card will help. The fan was probably 12v. Btw, you probably can mount a fan on your card that's connected to your PSU directly (by molex of by use of a fan adapter). You could even rig another heatsink on there, but a pic of the card will help. The MX2 probably doesn't need extensive …

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Graphics Card Fan Replacement?

Posted on 2017-06-20, 02:25

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by Staticblast

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My GeForce 2 MX200's fan crapped out long ago, and I've since lost both the fan and the screws (stupid of me, yes, but I was a kid who didn't know I'd be into retro hardware). I know, I know, you can get it and even the MX400 for relatively cheaply on eBay, but I specifically want to fix this one up …

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Re: Where to download Sam and Max floppy disk images?

Posted on 2016-11-30, 15:07

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by Staticblast

in DOS

in DOS

Well, if I recall correctly, the only difference between Sam & Max Hit the Road on CD and on floppy is that the CD version has added speech. So just run the CD version through ScummVM, and turn speech off and subtitles on, and you should have the floppy experience!

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Re: Dune "HERAD" Ad Lib Music Hacking

Posted on 2016-11-29, 11:21

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by Staticblast

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in DOS

So, attached are the main settings I used. (You'll have to obtain/dump a BIOS & graphics ROM file, PCem doesn't come with them built in) The Adlib Gold has the surround module enabled by default, but the setting to enable/disable it can be found in the Configure button next to the Sound Card …

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Re: Dune "HERAD" Ad Lib Music Hacking

Posted on 2016-11-28, 08:33

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by Staticblast

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in DOS

I want to try out PCem because we know which part of the AGD files in Dune control the surround module, so modifying those values should affect the module and then we can figure out what exactly those bytes do. Does anyone know how to set up PCem, it seems rather complex. I'll post my configs and …

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Re: Dune "HERAD" Ad Lib Music Hacking

Posted on 2016-11-25, 10:51

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by Staticblast

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in DOS

On a sidenote, PCem added support for the Adlib Gold surround module recently. I got Dune up and running on it, and it sounds good . DOSBox SVN also has been added AdLib Gold OPL3 mode: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=31494&start=20#p477203 Interesting. Does it also include the surround …

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Re: Dune "HERAD" Ad Lib Music Hacking

Posted on 2016-11-25, 06:10

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by Staticblast

in DOS

in DOS

Much of this is going over my head, sooo... Question: Will this eventually enable us to play the games in DOSBox with an emulated Adlib Gold? No, it will let us play the music to MegaRace 1, Dune and KGB outside of the respective games, and possibly also allow us to make music for the format. Cool! …

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Re: Dune "HERAD" Ad Lib Music Hacking

Posted on 2016-11-23, 15:45

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by Staticblast

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in DOS

Much of this is going over my head, sooo... Question: Will this eventually enable us to play the games in DOSBox with an emulated Adlib Gold?

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Re: DOSBox Game Launcher (DOSBox Frontend)

Posted on 2016-05-20, 12:53

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by Staticblast

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

AVG: For people who don't want to pay Norton to have their system rendered useless.

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Eagle Eye Mysteries mouse issue

Posted on 2016-05-03, 08:46

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by Staticblast

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Trying to get Eagle Eye Mysteries to run on DOSBox for by nieces & nephew, but I'm running into a bit of an issue, and I think it might be DOSBox related. It works just fine in windowed mode, but the moment I have it start in fullscreen, it triggers a weird issue: Should you use the mouse to skip …

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Re: Future of VMware Workstation

Posted on 2016-04-18, 11:23

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by Staticblast

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Honestly, I've given up on VMWare. VirtualBox does everything I need it to do perfectly. I can even run Microprose's Magic: The Gathering flawlessly, and that's a pain in the rear to get working properly. Of course, you do need to use a third-party graphics driver for Win95/98, and data transfer …

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Re: Asking for assistance with a new project to document classic floppy disk contents

Posted on 2016-04-18, 11:15

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by Staticblast

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in DOS

I have quite a few as well. Will post as and when I have the time. Have you set up what you've received in a public repository yet?

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Re: Games that uses the CM-32L specific sound effects

Posted on 2016-04-14, 12:40

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by Staticblast

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thecrankyhermit wrote: With MUNT and the MT-32 ROMs, I get corrupt noise. With my real MT-32, I just get the song, no laughter or corrupt noise. Is this with both MT-32 Old and MT-32 New ROMs? Seems like an interesting difference. I might try this myself.

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Re: MT-32 Init Volume?

Posted on 2016-03-29, 10:57

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by Staticblast

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in MT-32 General

Pity there isn't a way to intercept specific SysEx messages. Ah, well. Guess I'll just have to stand ready to tweak that dial.

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MT-32 Init Volume?

Posted on 2016-03-28, 10:42

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by Staticblast

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I set my MT-32 to a rather low volume, since it balances better with digital audio that way. However, some games (like Dune 2) initialise the volume to 90, forcing me to go and manually tweak the dial a bit to get back to my preset volume. Is this just the way their SysEx is written, or am I …

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Re: D-Fend Reloaded (DOSBox frontend)

Posted on 2015-07-13, 21:54

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by Staticblast

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in DOSBox General

Encountered a strange issue with Conquests of the Longbow. It imported all cover images as .png, but wouldn't display them in the screenshots section. Screenshots, on the other hand, display fine in the screenshots section even though they are also .png. Looking through the file-lists for the other …

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Re: Mortal Kombat 2/3/Trilogy Speed Issues

Posted on 2015-07-09, 22:47

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by Staticblast

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

I think the only issue here is a wrong assumption. The round timer in all the MK1-2-3-Trilogy games does not advance at one unit per second, but more like 2 units per second. I tested and confirmed it on real DOS, DOSBOX and MAME-emulated arcade versions as well. The countdown after defeat is much …

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