Re: Best solution for hardware wavetable in modern desktop or laptop?

Posted on 2023-11-30, 19:26

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zaphod77 wrote on 2023-11-30, 17:38: it just would NOT STOP pegging my hard drive and trying to fill metadata sounds more like something is wrong with your pc if playing as midi file makes you think its pegging the hard drive trying to fill metadata... nobody else is having issues playing midi …

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Re: Best solution for hardware wavetable in modern desktop or laptop?

Posted on 2023-11-29, 05:07

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i have a descent1 midi thats 162kb and plays no problem on all 3 of my GM hardware units with no latency going pc->(usb)->audio interface->(midi)->roland a880 midi patchbay->(midi)->unit x3 i feel like your trying to solve a problem thats not really a problem.

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Re: Best solution for hardware wavetable in modern desktop or laptop?

Posted on 2023-11-28, 13:21

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your not gonna find the things you want in a pcie card etc. the world moved on a long long time ago. If you want a modern module, buy an Roland Integra 7.

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Re: WLINK ERROR! E2028 undefined reference when using USES directive in ASM code

Posted on 2023-11-18, 01:36

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In the ASM code the underscore must be appended at the end of the function name without an underscore at the front. myfunc_ In the C code the underscore must be appended in front of the function name without an underscore at the end. _myfunc this is not entirely correct. it depends on the compilers …

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Re: Your sport choice

Posted on 2023-11-07, 19:50

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I do Kendo. i have no interest to watch sport on tv.

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New intro for DOSEmber 2023

Posted on 2023-11-05, 16:02

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I made a little intro for the upcoming DOSember 2023 event being held on twitch; (check out http://dosember.com ; a bunch of us on twitch dedicate December to just dos games) So, yeah I made a little intro like a party invite from back in the day. https://bloodycactus.com/files/dosem23.zip Needs 386 …

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Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-10-16, 17:32

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what sucks is the datapath driver no longer compiles under linux kernel v6 that distro's are shifting to 🙁 aaaargh. I tentativly poked it and fixed a couple of things, other things I've no idea about (aka dma in kernel drivers)... ugh 🙁

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Re: The Soundblaster DSP project

Posted on 2023-10-16, 12:17

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be interesting to see how it is with any demos using GoldPlay because it does single byte dma and does funky timing with the dsp.

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Re: autoexec file overflow on startup

Posted on 2023-10-08, 15:53

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this looks like the GOG setup for Spear of Destiny... GOG likes to use two configs like that. I find all gog configs to be terrible.

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Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-10-03, 02:14

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ooh I was looking forward to this, but wasnt able to build it (i posted on github).. looks very cool tho.

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Re: The Soundblaster DSP project

Posted on 2023-09-26, 18:50

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I dont think I can get a PLCC socket on mine. there are some close by resistors. (https://xn--krketr-jual.com/awe32.jpg)

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Re: Roland SC8850, replace the power cord as soon as possible.

Posted on 2023-09-26, 18:47

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analog_programmer wrote on 2023-09-26, 17:06: Ok. I'm going to talk with my radio. I put them (a bot?) on mute. this is the strangest nonsensical thread I've seen in a long time 🤣

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Re: Roland SC8850, replace the power cord as soon as possible.

Posted on 2023-09-26, 16:50

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shandavid wrote on 2023-09-26, 16:46: but most people don't need to pay attention to these, they only need to pay attention to the sound difference I dont wear a tin foil hat, so things sound pretty good to me.

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Re: Software rendering <> DirectDraw

Posted on 2023-09-26, 16:48

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direct draw is a 2d api that has hardware acceleration. direct 3d is an api that also has hardware acceleration. it depends how narrow you want define "software rendering", or the term "render". you can many many things. if my pixel to plot is already in vram and i just tell it to copy to another …

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Re: Roland SC8850, replace the power cord as soon as possible.

Posted on 2023-09-26, 16:29

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aah I see we found the audiophile. still, you can do better, you need a mogami gold nitrogen infused pure copper 1 million strand cable! Only then will it be suuuuuper smooth and suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper sweet. It would be like have Tom Lord-Alge on your left and right ear, constantly mixing to …

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Re: Want to upload DOS program!

Posted on 2023-09-26, 12:44

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its hosted on sourceforge, why does it need to be anywhere else? you have one place to keep it updated instead of updating loads of other sites.

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Re: Single Board Computer possible build

Posted on 2023-09-21, 14:39

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

these things are old PICMG standards for embeded/backplane stuff. search for picmg you will find loads of stuff. some backplanes were passive, some were active with pci controllers and stuff.

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Re: Tandy 1000 max CF card size?

Posted on 2023-09-19, 12:57

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tandy do have bios, its just it has no options so you dont get "into" it. you will need some form of xtide bios + cf card, and best to have small card that you can make < 32mb partitions. These systems work best with dos3. you can run dos5 but you dont really get any benefits.

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Re: The VOGONS Miniature Painting (and Wargaming) Thread

Posted on 2023-09-17, 16:39

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Battletech all primed! now to start painting.

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Re: Can your VGA card provide a hardware source for random numbers?

Posted on 2023-08-22, 17:28

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hmmm my tandy 1000 sx has a lightpen interface built in (but i have no light pen for it)... its just not vga 😀

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