Re: Is there a example of what a "VESA MIDI" device is?
Posted on 2014-02-02, 21:39
Almost anything using Miles Sound System I'd imagine, Cyberbykes in particular. The driver name is "vesamid.adv"
Is there a example of what a "VESA MIDI" device is?
Posted on 2014-02-02, 10:46
In some of my older games I have it apparently let's you select something called "VESA MIDI Driver"... what exactly is that? For some reason that just sounds like a MIDI port being offered by a SVGA card.
Re: Tyrian: Roland SC55 vs Yamaha MU80
Posted on 2014-02-01, 01:12
Where the heck does it say Tyrian's soundtrack is made for the AWE32? It seriously only makes sense to me that it was made for the OPL2 chip and the GM playback was tacked on for those who didn't have the chip, or who grew accustomed to the sound of the newer synths at the time. And by dumb I mean …
Re: Tyrian: Roland SC55 vs Yamaha MU80
Posted on 2014-01-31, 14:04
Tyrian's music is supposed to be played on a OPL2, I never quite understood why and how it has GM sound when the LDS music is basically a tracker for OPL2 chips from what I can understand of it. What do these songs sound like on the SC-88 I wonder? Or would something have to be specifically composed …
Re: Your favorite shareware/freeware?
Posted on 2014-01-30, 22:39
The original unpatched first release of DOOM shareware version.
Re: Windows OPL3 Synthesizer
Posted on 2014-01-28, 18:36
Well I want the emulator to be accurate to an actual chip. There's one thing that Bizquit made (which I still can't for the life of me get working on windows no matter how hard I try) called ADL-Midi that can provide a "perfect" FM synthesis. Though thank you so much for finally clarifying how many …
Re: Windows OPL3 Synthesizer
Posted on 2014-01-27, 21:35
I also wonder why the OPL3 only lets you have 6 rather getting 12 four op voices... or am I not reading something right? The wikipedia page for the OPL3 confuses me...
Re: "overkill" system for original half-life
Posted on 2014-01-26, 23:10
Overbright lighting? Also some modern GPU's have piss poor performance on certain OpenGL 1.x applications... you can blame the crappy driver programmers for f'ing it all up.
Re: Windows OPL3 Synthesizer
Posted on 2014-01-26, 19:09
I also have a on topic question, since this is a OPL3 and you're working on making 4-op... is there really any game that used the OPL3 as a MIDI device and actually used 4-op patches? Because when you have 4-op voices it reduces the polyphony and I gather they didn't do that because people would …
Re: "overkill" system for original half-life
Posted on 2014-01-26, 19:01
Half-Life can even hard freeze on some custom maps... Afraid of Monster's: Directors Cut does this alot. There are also parts in that TC that slow the engine down VERY much even though it (to my knowledge) does not use any GoldSrc hacks like external opengl32.dll to do odd features like shaders and …
Re: "overkill" system for original half-life
Posted on 2014-01-26, 16:36
You ever heard of the fact that old programs that aren't compiled to take advantage of newer processors and SIMD instructions run slow still on newer processors? Same principle applies to other old OpenGL and software renderer games... Tribes 1 being a GOOD example of even if you have a massively …
Re: Windows OPL3 Synthesizer
Posted on 2014-01-26, 00:58
The original MIDI is in XMIDI format... I can't find a reliable tool to convert it back to a standard Mode0 MIDI file. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45822870/ … yberbykesXMI.7z There's ALL the XMI data out of Cyberbykes.
Re: What games to play?
Posted on 2014-01-25, 10:40
I just stated in my post why to get the retail release of Unreal 1. Playing without any patches offers a very interesting (and difficult) gameplay experience. The patches overtime dumbed down and broke certain AI features, of which I can only presume because people complained about the game being …
Re: Games where the PC (OPL2) had it better than Amiga (Paula)
Posted on 2014-01-25, 07:01
The OPL3 I'm willing to accept minorly but it's just the fact that I've been hearing really good music done on just the measly OPL2 that is the reason I started this thread.
Re: Games where the PC (OPL2) had it better than Amiga (Paula)
Posted on 2014-01-25, 05:40
Well this topic certainly degenerated in a rather amusing way...
Re: Games where the PC (OPL2) had it better than Amiga (Paula)
Posted on 2014-01-24, 19:58
The Stellar 7 music on the Amiga is trying to mimic the MT-32 from what I can tell... It get's rather hilariously annoying sounding when you get to the final stage. I never played or head the later Sierra games because I got fed up with how the music guy treated the AdLib like a POS. Meanwhile you …
Re: Games where the PC (OPL2) had it better than Amiga (Paula)
Posted on 2014-01-24, 19:03
I was gonna say Dune but its OPL3... Dune 1 is actually mostly OPL2... There are only what like, three or two songs that actually use OPL3 in them. Dune's Amiga music is just as amazing as the OPL2 music though and it has a track that you only hear in the "OST" CD. Most adventures really. From …
Games where the PC (OPL2) had it better than Amiga (Paula)
Posted on 2014-01-24, 10:17
I've been doing some random page crap and I've stumbled across... so far two cases where the music on the PC is superior to the Amiga version... on just a standard OPL2 chip (NO OPL3!) Alpha Waves (I think this uses the elusive Rhythm mode, though I could be wrong...) Whale's Voyage (it's …
Re: Show us your inner child
Posted on 2014-01-24, 10:11
Seeing how I scream when I look at a mirror... I don't really have any photos to show. Only one I've taken is very recent though people say I don't look anywhere in my 20's even though I am 21 years old. But the machine I had the most fond "childhood" memories of was a Quantex that was equipped with …
Re: Windows OPL3 Synthesizer
Posted on 2014-01-23, 21:34
MaliceX wrote: Changelog: [17-JAN-2013] - Major update Isn't today 2014...? Also I've been listening to a few more songs and can't really see any problems with this emulation core, pretty interesting how this came out of nowhere too.
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