Re: When did General Midi and Sound Canvas support fall off for big budget releases?

Posted on 2020-02-19, 23:06

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Command and Conquer used a (non-CD) digital audio soundtrack as early as 1995. Same year for Crusader: No Remorse. Being a huge Origin fan, I remember being highly disappointed at no GM option because prior to then, Origin made amazing GM soundtracks for their games. On the plus side, No Remorse …

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Re: When did General Midi and Sound Canvas support fall off for big budget releases?

Posted on 2020-02-19, 11:45

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jmarsh wrote on 2020-02-14, 20:35: Command and Conquer used a (non-CD) digital audio soundtrack as early as 1995. Same year for Crusader: No Remorse. Being a huge Origin fan, I remember being highly disappointed at no GM option because prior to then, Origin made amazing GM soundtracks for their …

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Re: How to: Imaging/cloning a harddrive, using Linux only....

Posted on 2020-02-17, 00:26

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Zup wrote on 2020-02-16, 18:21: I'd use clonezilla to do disk imaging if your computer supports it (and I'd try older versions if modern ones are not supported). For Win9x, you need Clonezilla 1.1.0-8 and Gparted 0.3.7-7. See Re: Utility for making exact hard drive clones?

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Re: SVGA/VESA Emulator for DOS?

Posted on 2020-02-16, 15:39

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Why so secretive about your graphics card? One of the things that makes this forum so good is there are very knowledgeable members, but when you withhold information because you think you know better, not only do you keep people from being able to help, you keep them from WANTING to help.

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Re: SVGA/VESA Emulator for DOS?

Posted on 2020-02-16, 13:28

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Sci-Tech Display Doctor or UNIVBE.

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Re: How to: Imaging/cloning a harddrive, using Linux only....

Posted on 2020-02-16, 13:25

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SpinRite is a good tool for fixing bad sectors, especially on old/retro drives. It is not freeware, it costs $90, but once you buy it, you can use it on however many drives you want for the rest of your life. It is a DOS utility and must be run from native DOS, but it is very good at finding and …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-15, 15:53

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After 5 years with a monitor I repaired that someone was going to throw out (it had a bad capacitor I replaced), I finally "splurged" and got me a modern 1080p monitor. My previous monitor was a 23" 1680x1050 Acer from 2007. I replaced it with this: https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/stylish/gw2480. …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-02-08, 12:20

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Still having a blast with Wizardry 7 DOS. Currently I just finished save scumming in Giant Cave against *SPOT*. He's basically the boss of this cave, a dumb T-Rex-looking pet of the three giants you battle in there. Tons of HP, resistant to most magic, a big bite, but slow and misses often. It takes …

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Re: Pentium 66 MHz vs 75 MHz shoot out (on a level field)

Posted on 2020-02-08, 12:06

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I think John Carmack once said that the very early VL-Bus cards in 1992/3 back when they created Doom did not handle 32bit quite well as they were just scaled ISA 16-bit designs. Also due to size of artwork in Doom using 32bit would lead to some alignment issues when transferring odd number of them …

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Re: Pentium 66 MHz vs 75 MHz shoot out (on a level field)

Posted on 2020-02-07, 23:16

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I seem to remember PC Magazine or some other magazine of the era testing the P75 against the P66 when it first came out and the outcome being overall slightly in favor of the P66 due to bus speed. It's just a vague memory, I could be wrong. I tried searching for a few minutes, but couldn't find an …

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Re: Pentium 66 MHz vs 75 MHz shoot out (on a level field)

Posted on 2020-02-04, 20:14

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Can’t you force a Pentium Overdrive into 1x multiplier by disabling the fan? If that’s the case then you could run it at 66mhz.

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Re: Best graphics card for my PB 233Mhz and DOS sound card

Posted on 2020-02-03, 18:02

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Hello everyone I'm looking into the best options for my Packard Bell Pulsar desktop. I plan to run Windows 95 and MS DOS on this machine. Looking at the specs for these models mine is a Pulsar 23 model onwards. https://i.postimg.cc/jSQPGkP3/dgewrg.jpg Will the Aztech 16C / 2320 sound card work well …

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Re: Crusader No Remorse - Black screen in DOS, will NOT boot!

Posted on 2020-02-02, 21:58

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Since you didn't mention your graphics card in your first post, I was just throwing that out there to cover the bases. It's possible there's some issue with the GF4, and Univbe won't work with it (it's too new and should already have Vesa BIOS Extension support). It is kind of an overpowered …

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Re: Crusader No Remorse - Black screen in DOS, will NOT boot!

Posted on 2020-02-02, 19:36

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It runs in SVGA, so depending on your graphics card you may need univbe to help out.

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Re: Pci cards roundup on dos

Posted on 2020-02-02, 15:42

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I never heard about the tnt2 m64 pci, if you have some link feel free to send me a pm :) They are quite common. It was a low-end nvidia card for Win9x but had surprisingly good DOS performance. Just search ebay (or wherever you shop for retro gear) for 'tnt2 m64 pci' and you'll find plenty of …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-02-02, 11:37

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I tried out a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 PRO (Virge/DX) card tonight.. It has a weird quirk, at the POST screen text that should be grey looks light green (white/bold text still looks white) and when I enter the BIOS all the colors look fine. Wtf? Dodgy BIOS? The BIOS chip does look a bit suspect.. …

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Re: Pci cards roundup on dos

Posted on 2020-02-02, 11:27

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Great job, man! Very interesting results, but mostly, a great round-up of cards. I've been trying to get my hands on an ET4000 and ET6000 for years but they're always so flippin expensive. The other really interesting number I saw was for the Avance Logic ALG2302.A. It is so much faster than the …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-02-01, 23:36

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I tried out a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 PRO (Virge/DX) card tonight.. It has a weird quirk, at the POST screen text that should be grey looks light green (white/bold text still looks white) and when I enter the BIOS all the colors look fine. Wtf? Dodgy BIOS? The BIOS chip does look a bit suspect.. …

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Re: Should I build a 486

Posted on 2020-02-01, 15:34

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I agree with above. The appeal of a 486 is playing with VLB and the huge flexibility that the turbo button adds in combination with SETMUL. It will play games from 286-era up to about 1994 very wonderfully. But from a practical standpoint, your 386 already handles the low end while your Slot 1 …

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Re: Let's benchmark our systems with caches disabled

Posted on 2020-01-31, 11:44

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Is there a list of which types of motherboards allow the different cache's to be turned off? Just looking to learn some rule of thumbs here. For example, if I aim for a computer with a 200mhz and below processor will those (almost?) ALWAYS have these different cache options available for me to slow …

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