Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-09-28, 18:37

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by Gmlb256

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More testing with the new EXE and expanded memory manager loaded. It's becoming less about XMS and it crashes/reboots (depending whether QEMM or EMM386 is used) when exiting the game, I did this without AWEUTIL to make sure. Without EMM it works fine.

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Re: Which is the best and most memory efficient CD-driver?

Posted on 2021-09-28, 17:49

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Interesting. I should run this experiment on my retro system. Please do if you have time, it would be interesting to know the outcome :) So the outcome is as follows: on my LG 52x CDROM, either with VIDE-CDD or with OAKCDROM - the music in Warcraft II doesn't stop at the end of track, but neither …

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-09-28, 13:48

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by Gmlb256

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in DOS

ericvids wrote on 2021-09-28, 13:38: Wow, I think you found the exact problem. Can you try this one now? It's working!!! 😀 I can even also run that EXE with AWEUTIL. Thanks! 👍

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-09-28, 13:21

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by Gmlb256

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ericvids wrote on 2021-09-28, 13:20: But if you run 1.00 first, does this executable crash or not? (I still couldn't wrap my head around that) No. Also I don't see mpuInit on that version when looking at the commits but it's just a memory allocation routine. Edit: I see the memory allocation …

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-09-28, 13:13

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by Gmlb256

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Got the new EXE and still isn't fixed. I now also tried with NOAL (No AdLib) this time for disabling the entire sound system except PC speaker and still hangs with this parameter. Curiously enough I don't see any condition if the music is enabled on mpuStop and mpuRestart routines as SD_MusicOff …

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-09-28, 12:18

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by Gmlb256

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I couldn't resist coding a bit more after you said that you actually run the 1.00 version and then the new ones... so I made a build that uses the 1.00 init code with the current playback code. Let me know if the init issue is fixed. (Really sleeping this time.) Sorry for the very late replay, was …

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Re: DMA Sharing

Posted on 2021-09-28, 12:00

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I'm not sure what the hell's the cards problem is , its really being a massive pain in the ass , no idea why gravis didn't make the card fully jumpered , would have been less of a pain that way. The problem would be due to using it on a Socket 7 computer (it's not typical due to slow DSP …

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-09-28, 04:17

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by Gmlb256

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Still persist, however I have found a workaround on DOS only with the real MPU-401 when I run the 1.00 version first then the ones that you posted recently as an attempt to fix this. I'm also surprised that AWEUTIL suddenly stopped working (had to replace the PSU yesterday due to having issues with …

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-09-28, 03:50

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by Gmlb256

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The program hangs at the signon screen when it's about to initialize the music. Sorry that I didn't see that question prior.

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-09-28, 03:40

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by Gmlb256

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Okay, that's really strange... how long is the delay? How about this one? Is the delay still there? And does it not work with AWEUTIL anymore with NOXMS? (I thought I fixed a bug...) The delay is no longer there (it was about 2-4 seconds), but the initialization issue still persist and could not …

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-09-28, 03:02

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by Gmlb256

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ericvids wrote on 2021-09-28, 02:43: Can you try this executable? If you can check on both your real MPU401 and on AWEUTIL, that would be great... I tested the EXE that you posted, however it only works with the real MPU-401 after a long initialization and it isn't guaranteed.

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-09-28, 02:28

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by Gmlb256

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Some bad news, I'm no longer able to use the recent versions of wolfdosmpu. It freezes right after pressing any key on the signon screen when displaying "Working...". Only version 1.00 and 1.10 currently works for me on DOS. 🙁

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Re: DOS32AWE - DOS/4G compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI synthesizer support for Protected mode,V

Posted on 2021-09-27, 18:43

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by Gmlb256

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You can easily reproduce this with DOOM using DOS32AWE and after you are done, restart the computer and enter the BIOS setup to check the date and time.

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! Drive in MSDOS

Posted on 2021-09-27, 17:16

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Sound

There was another post with a driver here yesterday, that got deleted - was it the wrong driver? Didn't have time to dig into it, now its gone. That was me, didn't know whether you were using two sound cards or not. I apologize for the inconvenience. It was about a mixer software for SB Live! and …

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Re: DMA Sharing

Posted on 2021-09-27, 13:56

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Never tried it either with my SB Pro 2, but from what I read here it doesn't work well. Try using different DMA for the other sound cards if possible, I recall that you had set the GUS to DMA 7 which should not pose any conflict with the SB Pro 2. Also disable any CD drive that requires DMA to work …

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Re: DOS32AWE - DOS/4G compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI synthesizer support for Protected mode,V

Posted on 2021-09-27, 13:34

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Sound

It's just me or does the time and date from the BIOS configuration gets reset after using DOS32AWE successfully? Has this happened to anyone else?

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Re: How does this Slot 1 support mount to a motherboard?

Posted on 2021-09-27, 12:53

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by Gmlb256

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Personally, I believe the slot CPU concept was a marketing thing. It wasn't marketing. Moving the CPU onto a PCB was necessary to accommodate the external L2 cache. If Intel was marking this as somehow better than integrating it on-die then THAT was purely marketing speak. The only benefit to …

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Re: DOS32AWE - DOS/4G compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI synthesizer support for Protected mode,V

Posted on 2021-09-27, 03:40

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by Gmlb256

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

More new games tested with DOS32AWE 1.6. Raptor: Call of The Shadows V1.2: Works fine. Star Wars: Dark Forces 0.163D: Works fine. System Shock vF1.8D: The demo version I got from DOS Games Archive requires editing CYB.CFG to enable digitized sound and music. For General MIDI support, midi_card and …

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Re: Config.sys & Autoexec.bat for the nth time I imagine

Posted on 2021-09-26, 17:02

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by Gmlb256

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I was expecting this reply. 😀. Every time I bring this up, someone always jumps and mentions some obscure programs that don't work with this configuration (actually, usually they can't even name a single one, they just mention that they "exist"), and if they do mention something, it's typically …

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Re: Config.sys & Autoexec.bat for the nth time I imagine

Posted on 2021-09-26, 16:14

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Software

They are also generally not needed. There is almost never a need to have more than one configuration (unless you change hardware). I disagree. There are some DOS programs that doesn't work with expanded memory manager and even one game called Zone 66 that refuses to run with HIMEM.SYS. I prefer …

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