Re: EMU Proteus/1 support for Sierra games?

Posted on 2024-04-14, 14:05

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in Marvin \ Sound

If you look at the "Instrument" list, which is what the 1/XR calls waveforms, you'll notice about half of the GM instruments are not catered for. dont look at the instrument (wav list), they dont get used them that way (you cant play them directly like that), you have to look at presets, thats the …

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Re: Frederik Pohl's Gateway (Legend) and CGA graphics

Posted on 2024-04-12, 14:15

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in Marvin \ Software

Just tried GW2 now - it ignores the usual 'home.exe cga' parameter and starts in normal VGA mode. My version of GW1 also doesn't show any graphics in CGA mode (it starts and shows the same mono interface as above). My guess is all the versions floating on the net are probably derived from the free …

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Re: Frederik Pohl's Gateway (Legend) and CGA graphics

Posted on 2024-04-12, 13:01

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in Marvin \ Software

I have the archive big box, cga does not work on my GW1 copy from that cdrom. the only cga that I can get working was Time Quest and S101. None of my others legend games would show cga. I dont think EE, S301, GW2 have CGA/Tandy support.

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Re: EMU Proteus/1 support for Sierra games?

Posted on 2024-04-08, 12:37

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in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

what you want is the emu sound engine, it does GM but useses the proteus sample set (it has a proteus1 mode underneath that you can turn on which puts it into the ignore drum channel mode basically).

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Re: Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55mkII emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-08, 00:39

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in Release Announcements

It's not the sound quality that makes the SC-55 unique I dont really consider the SC55 unique. but the fact that every midi music from every single game will sound 100 times more balanced than any more modern soundfont or synthesizer with General MIDI support. what? the mind boggles. i didnt …

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Re: Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55mkII emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-07, 22:23

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in Release Announcements

I think peoples response is muted because really... its general midi, its not like MT32 / Munt thats special. sc55 is just general midi, and one with a tiny compressed rom sound set at that.

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Re: Multimeter recommendation

Posted on 2024-04-07, 13:21

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

pretty much anything these days is good enough! I'd say a lot depends on how you define "good enough". of course, as long as it meets the persons needs. I have bench meters and handhelds and they all cost a pretty penny. but OP didnt say if they were measuring wall voltage and 100amps or just AA …

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Re: Multimeter recommendation

Posted on 2024-04-06, 21:37

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

pretty much anything these days is good enough! As for batteries Ive changed my 9v in both my meters about once every 5 years... unless you need something specific, yeah, just about anything these days is fine, they all use the same internal chips and stuff until you get to higher end stuff.

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Re: DOSBOX and multi lines arguments !

Posted on 2024-04-02, 15:21

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in DOSBox General

what is posted about continuation lines from the IC86 manual, is not talking about running it from DOS because DOS does not does do "anything entered between the ampersand and carriage return is treated as a comment"

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Re: DOSBOX and multi lines arguments !

Posted on 2024-04-02, 13:08

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Indeed, on my old machine I could call loc86.exe with arguments on several lines with ampersand "&" =>For example loc86.exe ARG1 ARG2 & ARG3 & ARG4 I had to do this because the line exceeds 128 characters and it is only possible to call loc86.exe only by arguments (no configuration file), and its …

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Re: Help With Roland SC-55 Sound Output

Posted on 2024-03-20, 15:25

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by BloodyCactus

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in Marvin \ Sound

i just realised the cables i reccomended wont work with the mic because its only 2 inputs.... i was thinking like the 4i4 or something... so yeah running into the xonars line in is much better with an rca to trs such as https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01D5H8LDM/ personally if your gonna add stuff... a …

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Re: Help With Roland SC-55 Sound Output

Posted on 2024-03-20, 14:32

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by BloodyCactus

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

What I would do is get an rca to xlr cable like this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SHWYDVQ/ and feed it into the rear of your 2i2, leaving the front inputs for your microphone, but its not ideal because it wants a mic level in, not a line level in. my comment is misleading!

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Re: MIDI-IN merge/switch box, for 5 or more inputs

Posted on 2024-03-10, 01:00

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by BloodyCactus

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

kenton make a merge-8. i also have a A880 and its great. not "cheap" are the iConnectivity MioXL (that will be my next upgrade).

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Re: Prehistorik 2, Blues Brothers 1&2 remasters

Posted on 2024-03-09, 20:41

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in DOS

builds just fine on linux, i tested my version of BB and it was fine. I dont have the amiga sound effect files so only had music. control is absolutely terrible with this SDL version. also noticed the intro does not behave like dos (aka no colour cycling/fade effect) on the lights when choosing …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-07, 14:45

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I like the emu's because I like to have non-roland GM, as I play all my GM modules at the same time, you get a nice full sound space and when its not the same roland rom in every machine you get a lot more nuance in the instruments.

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2024-03-06, 22:47

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snagged these two NOS sealed copies of Lost Treasures 1 + 2! I already have all the games (I owned LT1 before and have all other others in other collections), but I've never had a nice sealed treasure 2!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-06, 22:42

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

two e-mu sound engines popped up on reverb. I already had one, so I snagged a second one so I can chain them in overflow mode and get 64 voices (eg: the SC55 has 24 voices, the SC88 has 64.. the emu has 32, so I can double it to 64 voices for those beefier songs and puts it on par with an sc88!). I …

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Re: Custom Installer for programs/drivers under MS-DOS?

Posted on 2024-02-23, 19:17

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by BloodyCactus

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in Marvin \ Software

404? hmm I'll have to check it out. heh permissions issue with the web server. anyway, if you tested 1.03 and it didnt meet your needs completly, 1.04 is just a bugfix, no functionality changes. I didnt do editing of config/autoexec because that way danger lies! very easy to make a non-operational …

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Re: Custom Installer for programs/drivers under MS-DOS?

Posted on 2024-02-23, 12:41

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in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

you can use my simple installer. https://bloodycactus.com/code.html scroll down to simple installer 1.04

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Re: MS-DOS books that discuss loading and displaying an image

Posted on 2024-02-17, 21:29

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in DOS

in DOS

pcx also has bit planed version, 8bit vga with palette versions, then 16/24bpp versions. the format can get quite crunchy if you only expect plain vga style with palette information.

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