Re: VST Midi Driver Midi Mapper

Posted on 2021-07-05, 06:40

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Does anyone know if there is any sort of reasonable long term solution on this? The best I can think of is if we actually start putting everything in a VM, which isn't just very messy, but costs a lot of resources, so could be unusable on weaker systems like some laptops. It also brings up a lot of …

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Re: Yamaha S-YXG100plus SoftSynth for Win9x 4MB waveset working!!

Posted on 2021-07-05, 06:30

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Windows 10 MCI MIDI support seems the same as it has been since Windows 3.1, except that they removed the MIDI Mapper applet for choosing the default device. CoolSoft MIDI Mapper works well as a replacement. DOSBox and I think ScummVM also let you specifically pick a device number to use. I wish it …

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Re: VST Midi Driver Midi Mapper

Posted on 2021-01-02, 03:35

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I hate to bump an old topic, but has anyone found a good long term solution to this? I definitely have to agree that Yamaha XG sounds a lot better for a generic MIDI driver (with soundfonts you can do better, but you typically have to choose different ones and mix things around a bit for each …

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Re: Yamaha S-YXG100plus SoftSynth for Win9x 4MB waveset working!!

Posted on 2020-04-13, 02:15

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Why do you think DOSBox is dead? It is currently being developed and some official version releases have happened pretty recently. We'll have to agree to disagree I guess. I'm seeing only minor changes and nothing major put in even after years and the only recent update is actually more just …

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Re: Yamaha S-YXG100plus SoftSynth for Win9x 4MB waveset working!!

Posted on 2020-04-11, 18:57

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Oh this is a blast from the past. I haven't messed with that one in ages, but I think I recall that it was the earliest form of VXD driver pretty much only good for Windows 9x. I don't think Yamaha ever really upgraded it any and pretty much just let that one die out. I think you'll pretty much only …

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Re: WARNING: Currently impossible to change default midi device in Win8

Posted on 2018-05-10, 01:48

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I seem to be having troubles actually getting this to get along with DOSBox and ScummVM. Every single time I run something that uses the CoolSoft MIDIMapper it says it can't find a device and asks if I want to set a device. I can manually set it, but I'd swear everything is just reverting to the MS …

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Re: Yamaha S-YXG100plus SoftSynth for Win9x 4MB waveset working!!

Posted on 2018-05-06, 06:39

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So I'm super late to the party. I was setting up a 98SE VM for some old gaming (yeah, I know, no direct running on a PC anymore as I just don't have anything still working, but a VM is fine for the few things I have to do this way I think) and for some reason can't find my installer (seriously, …

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Re: Want to use XG remap SoundFont with DOSBox. Sounds awful.

Posted on 2017-07-11, 00:57

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XG uses GM as its' base, so it depends what samples are in the soundfont. Sounds like it could be just about anything. Feel free to upload the soundfont either here or elsewhere if it's big, and I will give it a listen. I've owned a few XG synths in my time. Can I legally do that? Both my friend …

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Want to use XG remap SoundFont with DOSBox. Sounds awful.

Posted on 2017-07-09, 06:57

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So I've been trying to setup DOSBox for a friend. Now, at home I have the SYXG50 VSTi plugin which works great with the program a wonderful person made to use a VSTi plugin as a MIDI device and I personally feel like it just fits best as a general purpose all around sound when I play DOS games out …

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Re: Is there a good OpenGL wrapper for Neverwinter Nights?

Posted on 2017-02-16, 02:56

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I had a feeling it was something like that. Still, before whichever patch made things so horrible, it actually ran tolerably on a Radeon 9600 Pro. Not ideally and sometimes framerates could drop low enough to make the game crash (yeah, it crashes if the framerate gets too low. Lovely) but overall …

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Re: Is there a good OpenGL wrapper for Neverwinter Nights?

Posted on 2017-02-16, 02:06

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I've never had an issue with NWN but I haven't touched it since the last expansion came out. The biggest issues were introduced with a later patch as I recall. And if you turn off pixel shaders for the most part it runs decently -- though still not as well as it should by far given the difference …

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Re: Is there a good OpenGL wrapper for Neverwinter Nights?

Posted on 2017-02-15, 23:34

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Ah, good to hear that it's not completely dead anyway, lol. It's surprisingly hard to find this sort of thing though. For one thing, it's almost universally the other way... I search "opengl to direct3d wrapper" and get tons of Direct3D to OpenGL wrappers. Even if I use quotes. :blah: I don't like …

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Is there a good OpenGL wrapper for Neverwinter Nights?

Posted on 2017-02-15, 11:28

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One of the things that has annoyed me about this game is how badly it has aged 3D acceleration-wise. For the longest time it would bring any ATi videocard that was three or four times more powerful than the game could even fully utilize to its knees crying. ATi finally fixed whatever they had …

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Re: Any way to map/unmap joystick buttons to keyboard keys on the fly?

Posted on 2011-06-07, 07:18

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It's really not something that I can change. Like I said, it's not something where I just sat down and made a conscious decision that I would write in a particular style. Rather, it's just the way I write and always has been. As far as changing layouts goes, if you use it like a virtual computer, it …

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Re: Any way to map/unmap joystick buttons to keyboard keys on the fly?

Posted on 2011-06-07, 05:52

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Even with menus in the startup files you needed to restart. Yes, but you don't have to edit/replace a file back and forth every time. You merely restart and then select the appropriate option in the menu. I advise you to read the documentation of dosbox. Especially the commandline functions of …

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Re: Suggestion: DB50XG emulation? If not, other MIDI boards?

Posted on 2011-06-07, 02:49

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Now that I won't deny is a shocker. It's even still actually on MS's website it seems. I must admit that now I'm pretty curious how this is even possible. I guess it's basically nothing more than being like a driver update to them. Sadly, this doesn't help Vista/7 or 64-bit users though.

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Re: Any way to map/unmap joystick buttons to keyboard keys on the fly?

Posted on 2011-06-07, 02:45

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Restarting doesn't take long, but we're not just talking about restarting here. I have to physically modify the configuration and restart, then modify it back. Otherwise the only way is to do what is mentioned in the older thread and keep separate copies of DOSBox for each game that needs this sort …

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Re: Suggestion: DB50XG emulation? If not, other MIDI boards?

Posted on 2011-06-07, 02:34

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As I said. I already have S-YXG50 installed. (BTW, I seriously doubt that MS ever released it. They would have to pay Yamaha a license fee and Yamaha would already be pretty resistant to even if MS was willing to do so. Perhaps you're thinking of their Roland emulator? That's now the standard GM …

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Re: Suggestion: DB50XG emulation? If not, other MIDI boards?

Posted on 2011-06-07, 00:07

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Ah, that is a good start then. I'd still really rather see some sort of DB50XG emulation, but that may not be possible. At the very least, it's preferable that DOSBox should be able to do MIDI synthesis "on its own" if for some reason the host can't. (I can also see this as being useful for portable …

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Suggestion: DB50XG emulation? If not, other MIDI boards?

Posted on 2011-06-07, 00:00

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This is probably impossible for some very obvious reasons, but I would still like to put this out there for possible consideration. I've had the S-YXG50 synthesizer for a VERY long time now. (It actually came free with some game or soundcard a long time ago and I don't even remember where I got it …

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