Re: Please recommend me a CMF player
Posted on Yesterday, 16:32
Thanks. This SBFM driver you have included is indeed special, so now I've switched to it in combination with Creative player from 1990. I was using before the one from XMOD project.
Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04
Posted on 2025-05-19, 18:27
While this answer of mine, may not be the most helpful one, MBF not having the simplified file loading feature of Boom 2.02 is not a regression. MBF is based on Boom 2.01, by the time TeamTNT has released 2.02, which included the feature you are referring to, MBF was a completely independent project …
Re: Tyrian hardcoded WSS $530 address hacking: is it possible?
Posted on 2025-05-16, 17:20
Well, anyway, this bit of information you've provided on DMA channel used seemed quite interesting, so I decided to investigate this with my own computer. First thing I noticed was that while for Sound Blaster compatible cards one could select DMA channel in SETUP.EXE, there was no such choice with …
Re: Tyrian hardcoded WSS $530 address hacking: is it possible?
Posted on 2025-05-15, 11:25
Reading the linked issue, I think the folks are also hinting to this LOUDNESS library not detecting your soundchip as a proper WSS implementation. I am curious if for your case you could share what Tyrian itself outputs about sound system while it's still in text mode at the very start...
Re: Please recommend me a CMF player
Posted on 2025-05-14, 05:36
Interesting. Would yound mind sharing some CMF tunes that tkae advantage of stereo sound?
Re: Tyrian hardcoded WSS $530 address hacking: is it possible?
Posted on 2025-05-13, 19:42
I became curious and tried setting up Tyrian (GOG version) for WSS. Getting no sound. Getting sound just fine in Cyril Cyberpunk with the same setup. When I change WSS address to 604h from 530h with my soundcard configuration utility, I still get no sound in Tyrian, and still have it in Cyril …
Re: Please recommend me a CMF player
Posted on 2025-05-13, 17:22
Thanks, @rfnagel, for your suggestion. I am sticking with the utilities that @dukeofurl has brought to my attention, as they seem to be simpler to use (no need for the driver TSR) and produce the sound that I expect. Can't comment on the stereo playback from those, but otherwise and from what I hear …
Re: Please recommend me a CMF player
Posted on 2025-05-11, 19:12
Hmm... you know, I was skeptical at first, since I have just yesterday tried one of the versions found in VGMPF wiki... but I have tried once more today with a random version found (1.01 from 1990, included with MID2CMF package) and it sounded very-very close, if not identical to the original game …
Please recommend me a CMF player
Posted on 2025-05-11, 09:16
Asking for your help with CMF player recommendation. My preference if for those, which can be invoked with a filename or list of files and thus are more suitable for being run from a batch script. I have tried a few players, inclusing those from VGMPF wiki (including muchmusic and creative player), …
Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97
Posted on 2025-05-06, 16:56
Re-reading my previous post, it may come through as somewhat nonsensical, so let me try again. Firstly this is about the 1.1 version of SBEMU.EXE which comes with a new DPMI host that @Crazii has presented as preview alpha a year ago. VDPMI, then host in question, is part of the package. The reason …
Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97
Posted on 2025-05-04, 21:15
Some feedback testing the 1.1 versions. The alpha version from May, 4th, 2024 seems to not play every sound in BlackZone. Interestingly, the version from April, 30th found in github works well! Currently using VDPMI.EXE from May, 4th with it. Both versions sadly ignore /SCFM flag. It works with 1.0 …
Re: Help identify game's music tracks
Posted on 2025-04-30, 20:46
Thanks to the wonderfully useful details provided by @leileilol (I really didn't have a clue where to start), I think I have a summary for the tracks, minus track2: Track 1 - Title ditto - while it sounds very similar to the introduction from ZARDOZ.CMF from 1990, and even uses the same instruments, …
Re: Help identify game's music tracks
Posted on 2025-04-28, 22:33
Many thanks, this is quite awesome. I took your hint and found another one: track 9 - BALI.CMF I also ran into BARNDOM6.CMF which matches track 4 too. Was quite surprised by the way that DUNGO has a dedicated page about it...
Help identify game's music tracks
Posted on 2025-04-28, 07:14
Hey folks I have recently been fiddling with a 1995 DOS game Black Zone which uses CMF music. It's a bit strange how the game mixes well known compositions with something that sounds original... so having just found out about Voyetra MusiClips (while reading on the CMF format, actually) and how …
Re: Monkey Island Ultimate Talkie - black screen on start in real DOS 6.22
Posted on 2025-04-12, 10:33
Hi. The game works in DOS 6.2 for me. I only tried it on Celeron machine from sig and it works with just r1 atribute given, but requires slowdown utility. I am using cpuspd22 these days universally. And I am using CTMOUSE I never experienced black screen with it, instead it would hang at first …
Re: LIfespan of DOS-based games post Windows 95
Posted on 2025-03-22, 10:48
Agree with what you say, actually. I did play games in Windows even before the Win98 days and fully understand what you mean. Also I guess that's why I am referring to Win9x in the later part of your post. Probably my preference for DOS and reluctance to switch meant I only fully went to Windows as …
Re: LIfespan of DOS-based games post Windows 95
Posted on 2025-03-22, 09:01
For some reason I was always sticking with DOS, probably beacuse early 90s games mostly had "Dont even try to run this in Windows" in readmes or had a dedicated Windows version that felt somewhat inferior to the DOS one, despite, say, higher resolution support - take for example Gabriel Kinght 1 …
Re: DOS on a modern PC
Posted on 2025-03-05, 20:11
Really, even Yamaha and Vortex based cards stop being agreeable at a certain chipset? I was under impression these were all good all the way until they started dropping support for legacy ISA ports (e.g. 220) in favor of PCI notation, at which stage there's still an option of port remapping - if …
Re: How to check if a CD is present without an Abort, Retry, Fail error?
Posted on 2025-03-05, 20:03
Not sure, how helpful this may be, esp since you seem to have found a solution already, but I have just recently responded in an adjacent thread with how I was solving a similar problem: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1330324#p1330324 EDIT: oh, ignore me: I was checking for presence of the …
Re: DOS Questions
Posted on 2025-02-16, 16:07
I found with the pandora directive you can simply copy all the files from all the CDs to one directory on the hard drive and run the game from there, no emulated CDs required This has actually been my approach to the problem - never got to figuring out a resident disk juggling solution for DOS. …
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