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Re: Interplay - sound driver hacking

Posted on 2013-10-20, 10:04

in DOS
[...] But on a further note, maybe I'm thinking way too much into this and they didn't give a flying f*ck about how it all sounds... after all, in Blood all you get is Pianos when starting the game on Yamaha. I genuinely believe that is the case. The composer makes some music with all the bells and …

Re: Apogee / 3D Realms - sound driver hacking

Posted on 2013-10-19, 23:12

in DOS
^ ah, thanks for that! and I was beginning to think that I was imagining things... they do state this at the readme: All MIDI files in the game use the Apogee/3D Realms EMIDI format, designed by Jim Dose' and Lee Jackson. I wonder if there is a way to get more accurate versions?

Re: Descent 1 and 2 polygon count

Posted on 2013-10-19, 23:07

in Milliways
A SC-7 is different in many ways from a SC-55. But some things sound the same , some not so much and some have minor differences in games. I am asking because I have currently connected a SCB-7 as well. I did love yamaha synths but now it seems to me they muffle too much the sounds, they certainly …

Re: Apogee / 3D Realms - sound driver hacking

Posted on 2013-10-19, 22:19

in DOS
^ nice, thanks for the tip, just checked ... I had downloaded the midi soundtrack and I thought that some songs sounded weird... time to cross-check 😀 bah, same !(@#&^$ , Gotham.mid sounds like it's pausing/skipping or something, does it play OK in your setup GH?

Re: Rude/strange Ebay sellers?

Posted on 2013-10-18, 19:02

in Milliways
had one US seller last week that replied to my shipping questions with these : me: Hello! is it possible to save on shipping if the PSU is not included? Best Regards, Leo him: PSU (power supply unit) is included? me: Yes, I can see that the psu is included.I am from Greece though and it's useless …

Re: Interplay - sound driver hacking

Posted on 2013-10-18, 18:55

in DOS
I have tested with World of Xeen arrow fx as per GH's instructions and I have tested with the Bloody Tears midi as well, it's a very known tune to me, thanks for uploading it as I had no ctf test midi :D It plays the same in both SC-55s , synthy sound overal On the MU80 I get piano sounds On the SCB …

Re: Interplay - sound driver hacking

Posted on 2013-10-18, 18:14

in DOS
Maybe these photos help? here is #122 in the units, upper one is v1.10 , lower is v1.21 : http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/restqp/Audio%20stuff/IMG02841-20131018-2028_zpsb7125c0b.jpg and here is if I press both instrument buttons to browse variation tones: http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/ …

Re: Interplay - sound driver hacking

Posted on 2013-10-18, 06:26

in DOS
the sc-55s are a mess , both my units are non-gm a you can see but they have different rom versions (v1.10 vs v1.21) and you can't swap them, I tried LOL The instrument placement has changed, on top of my head: the older unit has Fl. Key Click as the main instrument at #122 the newer unit has Breath …

Re: Alone in the dark - for fast CPUs

Posted on 2013-10-18, 06:07

in DOS
still the running command is messed up, the main character is supposes to run if you double-tap a direction button, even with a p1+L1_disabled the time window for that double tap is pretty tight... I wish there was a patch for that, moslo doesn't help much either

Re: Interplay - sound driver hacking

Posted on 2013-10-17, 19:22

in DOS
I get way different CRC32s... I can't test D1 because I have the floppies stored at my office along with the game boxes, all I got here is archives of already patched 1.4a and 1.5 versions. But I do have my D2 cd here. It's a UK v1.0 release (officially sold with Greek manual back when d2 was a new …

Re: Interplay - sound driver hacking

Posted on 2013-10-17, 18:05

in DOS
awesome! thanks for the cheat codes sadly I can't get either descent games to work... I have 3 updated game installations: Descent1 at ver1.5 , Descent1 at ver1.4a and Descent2 at rev1.2 (with vertigo expansion) All games run fine without the midi fixes If I midi-fix them then all games: - do the …

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