Re: Aureal Vortex 2 - Positional audio is screwed up through TOSLINK

Posted on 2020-10-31, 14:53

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by ZanQuance

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You have my permission, I don't think it has any side effects when ran, so it should be safe for public use. Put a txt doc with it and copy paste in my Tool usage advice from the prior post.

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Re: Aureal Vortex 2 - Positional audio is screwed up through TOSLINK

Posted on 2020-10-30, 19:17

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by ZanQuance

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Here is a temporary fix for the S/PDIF issue plaguing the drivers. I made this tool back in 2016 so philscomputerlab's could record his A3D videos. (Sorry I haven't posted it till now!) This fix reroutes the VDB table and has the final audio mixdown also go out the S/PDIF channels @48kHZ. Just be …

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Re: Descent 3 doesn't detect A3D with Santa Cruz Card

Posted on 2020-10-14, 03:56

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by ZanQuance

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Just don't expect Sensaura to work perfect with A3D 2.0. It's much better to run A3D 2.0 on real Vortex cards.

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Re: Descent 3 doesn't detect A3D with Santa Cruz Card

Posted on 2020-10-11, 16:42

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by ZanQuance

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For the Half-Life video I'm pretty sure I tweaked the s_refgain value to 2 or something higher so that the reflections were more apparent.

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Re: Descent 3 doesn't detect A3D with Santa Cruz Card

Posted on 2020-10-07, 04:34

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by ZanQuance

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Game->A3D->A3DAPI.dll->iA3D[bind to Vortex driver]->Driver->reports is an A3D accelerator card iA3D->asks driver if card does hardware reflections Yes->A3D enabled No->A3D greyed out Sensaura fails at the A3DAPI's iA3D call since it's drivers don't expose an entire wrapping of that function. So …

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Re: Descent 3 doesn't detect A3D with Santa Cruz Card

Posted on 2020-10-04, 20:48

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by ZanQuance

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Ohhhhhkay I've figured it out. It can't be done easily on Win98. Descent3 tries to enable A3D 2.0 by testing for hardware reflections caps in the driver through the IA3D interface. Only works on WinXP using that stupid A3D-live dll wrapper, it fakes the IA3D interface the game tries to load thus …

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Re: Descent 3 doesn't detect A3D with Santa Cruz Card

Posted on 2020-10-02, 05:16

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by ZanQuance

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I'm going from memory here since it's been a while since I last played around with this. Descent 3's launcher wont enable A3D with a Santa Cruz. period. To get it to work I had to place the A3DAPI.dll v3.12 in the descent 3 dir, then launch the game manually with a command line switch to force A3D …

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Re: [PS2] Frequency hidden songs patch file

Posted on 2020-09-26, 22:08

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by ZanQuance

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I'll send PMs to those interested until I solve the ppf patch issues, then I can post it here for everyone.

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Re: [PS2] Frequency hidden songs patch file

Posted on 2020-09-26, 07:59

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by ZanQuance

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How funny, after all this time I thought such things were long forgotten 😉 I don't have the original patch file anymore, so I created a new one. But for whatever reason PPF-O-Matic won't apply it to the ISO I made, it acts like it does, but doesn't. I'll PM you an alternative.

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-22, 19:16

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by ZanQuance

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That was an interesting read: The real reason Creative sued Aureal for false advertising “We're already in a patent case with these guys,” said John Danforth, vice-president and general counsel for Creative Labs, in an interview. “My concern is that during the time spent in the patent case, there's …

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Re: ASP403 - The Neverending Project

Posted on 2020-02-21, 20:11

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by ZanQuance

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Btw, how in the hell has ZanQuance youtube channel been emptied of all the nice A3D recordings? They are just marked as private but still on the account. They were recorded from XP and had those annoying crackles in the WaveTracing, the HRTF sounded odd too. Hardly a good example of A3D, so I …

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-21, 19:51

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by ZanQuance

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Right, so that's for the full word mark of "ADLIB PERSONAL COMPUTER MUSIC SYSTEM," including the drawing, which wasn't used. The trademark says "No claim is made to the exclusive right to use "Personal Computer Music System", apart from the mark shown"". The comma is key here, otherwise it would …

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-21, 18:39

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by ZanQuance

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It was See here Cloudschatze wrote on 2020-02-21, 18:15: "Ad Lib compatible" is a completely factual statement, falling within fair use. Then wouldn't "SB Compatible" also be a factual statement and fall within fair use for other vendors that were sued over that statement?

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-21, 17:45

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by ZanQuance

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They didn't pay Adlib a cent for "Adlib Compatibility" and yet they forced others to pay them for the Sound Blaster compatibility claim. It's kind of a moot point considering Ad Lib's inaction at the time. Had developers cited OPL2 as the supported hardware in their literature and setup programs …

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-19, 21:47

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Creative's case is that of an adopted standard, rather than one explicitly defined, where a considerable segment of the software industry "standardized" on the digital audio playback capabilities and routines of the Sound Blaster early on. Perhaps my EQ is just super-low, but I'm having a difficult …

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-19, 17:32

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by ZanQuance

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Creative had a license for Dolby processing, Daniel_K in modding the driver packs enabled them for cards Creative didn't have a license for and told him to knock it off. Most people didn't realize that was the specifics Creative had an issue with and thus lots of backlash. Creative shuts down Daniel …

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-18, 00:58

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by ZanQuance

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Give me one example of a business that competes with anyone else and always plays fair, and I'll give you a hot tip on a foreclosure sale. I don't believe in this world such a company exists, however there are more "well behaved" companies that don't cross the ethical line of doing whatever it …

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-17, 19:48

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by ZanQuance

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Mips was an easy example to grab evidence for of their marketing untruths, [edit] and it was plastered everywhere, in all Live! magazine reviews and many review sites , they all found that mips rating relevant enough. Mips may not mean much to the random consumer, but that larger mips number vs …

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Re: Article about the history of Creative Labs / interview with its founder/CEO: The Sound Blaster Story

Posted on 2020-02-12, 23:21

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by ZanQuance

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It seems that Mr. Sim's revisionist history disease is contagious. In the article linked about E-Mu, there is an implicit claim that they didn't desperately need Ensoniq for a viable PCI solution; they already had one before anyone else that they never released. Sure, and there's a free tropical …

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Re: What is the name of this space combat racing game?

Posted on 2020-02-11, 05:01

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by ZanQuance

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This probably isn't it, but does it resemble the game your thinking of? Might help narrow it down 360 for PS1

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