Re: "Best" OPL3 Card
Posted on 2016-12-07, 19:41
Well, the combo I mentioned will only run you for about 40 euro. Not quite 200 dollars, but not cheap either. An AWE64 can be had for half of that, sometimes less (it's cheaper than an AWE32).
Re: Giving windows Vista a second chance
Posted on 2016-12-07, 19:35
Re: "Best" OPL3 Card
Posted on 2016-12-07, 16:55
In principle, a good genuine OPL3 card + Wavetable general MIDI daughterboard makes an AWE card unnecessary. In practice, when I tried such a combo with (Audician 32 + Dreamblaster S1) I ran into a few compatibility issues that just did not happen with the AWE64. I did not have much time to spend …
Re: Giving windows Vista a second chance
Posted on 2016-12-07, 16:17
Marketing is a major influence on people. Maybe you could say marketing didn't have a much to do with it as I say, but to say it had nothing to do with it is just hilariously wrong. Relaunching a product with a new name is marketing. No, I am really saying that marketing really had nothing to do …
Re: Giving windows Vista a second chance
Posted on 2016-12-06, 19:28
Marketing really does not have anything to do with Vista's poor reception. It was a combination of objective issues (due to Microsoft's poor preparation and coordination with other HW/SW vendors) and people's natural tendency to resist major UI changes. Come Windows 7, the first was fixed and the …
Re: Audician 32 Plus + Dreamblaster S1 - newcomer problems
Posted on 2016-11-26, 17:45
Good tips. I will give it a shot next time. I am fairly positive I was running the floppy version of MK2 when it happened, but it may be configuration-specific. I wish I had more than one retro machine for these experiments, to speed things up and simplify comparisons. 😉
Re: Audician 32 Plus + Dreamblaster S1 - newcomer problems
Posted on 2016-11-26, 10:31
I would start with using pure MS-DOS 6.22, not Windows 98, as well as an era correct machine (for whatever game you're using). Because you can easily introduce a ton of other variables when trying to diagnose the issue. Well, I don't have a ton of machines either. :) I only have a single system for …
Audician 32 Plus + Dreamblaster S1 - updated 07/2018
Posted on 2016-11-26, 10:00
The combination of a Yamaha Audician 32 Plus + Dreamblaster wavetable daughterboard has gained a lot of popularity recently for retro DOS machines. It allows one to get true OPL3 FM and General MIDI, which together cover a very wide range of DOS games, all in a very compact and rather affordable …
Re: AWE64 - music stops working and need to run AWEUTIL again
Posted on 2016-11-26, 09:27
Well, after a brief venture away from Creative garbage into the realm of proper OPL + daughterboard, I am back to the AWE64, crappy CQM and all... :( The other solution, while allowing for very nice sound, was surprisingly finicky and gave me a whole range of different issues (which will be …
Re: AWE64 not working in Rise of the Triad
Posted on 2016-11-26, 09:00
OK, I finally did install RoTT (albeit version 1.2) and quickly hit the same issue reported by chinny22 on my AWE64 (MPU-401 initialization error, and unable to select AWE32 for music). Edit: scratch what I wrote before. It's actually a bit different. As jesolo found earlier, the sound setup utility …
Re: PCMCIA cards you use/like?
Posted on 2016-11-25, 11:23
Technically, these are CardBus, not PCMCIA. PCMCIA is the same form factor but is much older/slower (CardBus is PCI, PCMCIA is ISA). You will likely not find any PCMCIA cards useful for post-Pentium III systems. I've used the following CardBus cards in various scenarios: * USB 2.0 adapters for …
Re: Are there any good xinput to directinput wrappers?
Posted on 2016-11-25, 07:00
That's a good question. I too would be interested to know. So far I've been deliberately limiting myself only to controllers that have a native hardware switch to toggle between DirectInput and XInput, like the Logitech F series and some of Speedlink's pads, in order to avoid various such issues.
Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)
Posted on 2016-11-23, 08:32
Yes I'm using real hardware - both a 486SX33 and P166MMX. But I didn't realise this was an Ultratech patch - infact at the time of applying it I wasn't aware of the different versions at all. I have the Virgin version, so I guess it either runs faster than the Ultratech version (and thus the patch …
Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)
Posted on 2016-11-22, 18:39
mkpat.zip This is just the patch that updates the first Ultratech release to the final release. It merely extracts a bunch of files, overwriting any existing files you have. One of those files is MK.EXE, so if you had a cracked one, the new one will still have the copy protection. The other key …
Re: bsod when moving files, the PC doesn't like having too much RAM?
Posted on 2016-11-22, 13:23
It works with 512MB? Use that. 512MB is plenty for Win98 anyways.
Re: Which is the best SB16? CT-2910 or CT-2950
Posted on 2016-11-19, 08:08
I was obviously joking because I thought you were. The AWE64 is very good for what it does. Of course it would be nice to have it all in one card, but we already know there is no such thing. Of course I was partially joking, but as they say - every joke is really partially a joke, and the rest is …
Re: Which is the best SB16? CT-2910 or CT-2950
Posted on 2016-11-18, 18:33
No OPL3... No Wavetable... See? I predicted exactly the source of the rotten tomatoes. :dead: It's a bug-free SB16 that just works , that's why. Real OPL3 is a huge deal to some, but mostly because they feel that they want it to be a huge deal. Otherwise it's a pretty minor thing. Wavetable, IMO, …
Re: Which is the best SB16? CT-2910 or CT-2950
Posted on 2016-11-17, 18:59
The best SB16 is an AWE64. *waiting for rotten tomatoes from CQM haters / wavetable lovers* 😁
Re: Soundblaster joystick port midi help please
Posted on 2016-11-14, 12:05
It's a PnP card as far as I could check. You need CTCM to initialize it. If am wrong, and it's not PnP, scratch everything I said. On a PnP card you only need to run CTCU once, to assign the resources of your choice. Then you use CTCM to initialize it upon boot.
Re: Soundblaster joystick port midi help please
Posted on 2016-11-14, 09:40
Run CTCM, not CTCU.
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