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

Posted on Yesterday, 12:18

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Powered up the SCSI hard drive (120MB - Maxtor 7120SR) on the GVP HC+8 in my Amiga 2000 -- it works and boots to workbench! I found some more SIMM memory in a box in the basement, installed it, and I now have 8MB of RAM. I also did the motherboard mod to enable 1MB of chip memory. This is going to …

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Re: How likely am I to miss the SC-55?

Posted on 2020-07-31, 14:54

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the roms size on 55+88 are small. so samples are small. your not missing out on much if anything. I dont think we need to worry about that 1 game that needs capital tone feedback that only a sc55 with a very specific firmware does. the 88 has more polyphony which is nice... for dos games that use …

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Re: SC-88 backward compatible with CM-32L sound effects?

Posted on 2020-07-25, 17:08

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Mu0n wrote on 2020-07-25, 14:19: I'm wondering if my inbound (from Japan) SC-88ST unit can somehow play back those CM series specific sound effects in games such as Out of this World or Elite Plus? no.

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Re: Simple text-mode window library for DOS?

Posted on 2020-07-24, 01:20

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in Milliways

in Milliways

i just built it from github, it compiles against borland c 3.1, if you want the zip let me know

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Re: Simple text-mode window library for DOS?

Posted on 2020-07-23, 23:25

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DFLat was written in C, its the only other one I know off. several githubs for it.

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Re: Is there any way to use all the space on a hard drive larger than 2gb on MS-DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2020-07-23, 19:55

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

remember if your running 2gb with dos your running massive cluster sizes which just waste space. if your running ONLY dos and not windows, 2gb is heaps of space. or 2x2gb or 4x1gb with smaller clusters. dos games are tiny.

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Re: Is there a central listing of "dead ends"/"walking dead scenarios" in Sierra games?

Posted on 2020-07-23, 01:51

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The designs of early sierra games were... you die a lot. If you dont want dead ends... follow a walk through, otherwise whats the point? They were pretty good at not getting you into an unwinnable state. they just killed you off.

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Re: trouble with a program: cup386

Posted on 2020-07-23, 01:39

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in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

dosbox has a lot of trouble with a lot of these old tools of this kind, softice, cup386, a lot of cryptors (gardian angel). sometimes normal core works ok. normal works better than dynamic for these. some old stuff you need prefetch, some dont. you need to experiment, but dont expect miracles …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-22, 15:49

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

wiretap wrote on 2020-07-21, 20:30: Seller said it powered on and started up for a minute, then downpowered and wouldn't turn back on. I'll take on the challenge. Hopefully it is just the power supply. I'm 100% guaranteeing you its battery corrosion has eaten the board away in a large swathe. those …

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Re: Stunts game: your opinions/experience?

Posted on 2020-07-13, 12:35

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in Marvin \ Software

stunts was awesome. desiging your own tracks. we only ever raced with the f1 car, nothing else was fast enough. there was a bug that also locked your engine at 100% which was cool. man i still remember that 🤣!

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Re: Good PCI Controller to use with SCSI2SD?

Posted on 2020-07-07, 11:58

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

tekram dc390f was my favourite scsi card for dos.

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Re: Retro PC without ISA. What sound would you choose?

Posted on 2020-07-04, 18:11

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

DOS games for all intents and purposes are not deciedn for PCI. Doing it with PCI is going to be a mountain of headache and it wont work right.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-03, 20:17

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

got a new NOS 5pin din AT keyboard. Not going to use it on a computer, buts getting plugged into my EMU E6400 Ultra sampler.

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Re: MT-32 ROM 2.00, old version?

Posted on 2020-06-27, 14:05

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yawetaG wrote on 2020-06-27, 09:53: BloodyCactus wrote on 2020-06-26, 19:55: well the space is there on the pcb for the jack. its definitely a 'new' mt32, not 'old' mt32. for whatever reason they did not solder the jack on. The casing itself is the 'old' version, hence no jack. right. probably …

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Re: MT-32 ROM 2.00, old version?

Posted on 2020-06-26, 19:55

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well the space is there on the pcb for the jack. its definitely a 'new' mt32, not 'old' mt32. for whatever reason they did not solder the jack on.

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Re: MT-32 ROM 2.00, old version?

Posted on 2020-06-26, 12:07

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maybe you have a version right on the transition period. but sounds odd to me. pics would be great!

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Re: CGA/EGA capture with 6€ logic analyser

Posted on 2020-06-25, 21:13

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in Marvin \ Video

I recently bought this China (6€!) logic analyzer. It can capture signals with 24 MHz on 8 channels! Software available for free here: https://www.saleae.com/de/downloads/ so I'ma be that guy and say how unethical it is, that Saleae did the R&D to make their products and invest in their software, …

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Re: Is Ultima 6 (VGA) the most demanding game that requires PC Speaker?

Posted on 2020-06-24, 15:25

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

none of the legend entertainment games used a cable.

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Re: Is Ultima 6 (VGA) the most demanding game that requires PC Speaker?

Posted on 2020-06-24, 02:14

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ild say no, anything 'realsound' is more boss for pc speaker stuff.

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Re: Frederik Pohl's Gateway - retro game review

Posted on 2020-06-23, 18:11

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Great game. I love the original Legend Ent. Titles with the text interface. Time Quest is fantastic.. s101 is probably the best of the 3 series imo.. The two Gateways are amazing. Eric the Unready feels the most infocomish to me. 😀 all great games!

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