Build for 80's through early 90's

Posted on 2017-05-05, 18:01

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by tauro

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello folks, I already have a few builds, a high end late DOS computer (P3 1.4GHz) and a mid-90's (P54C 133 MHz). Now I'm looking to explore the 80's and early 90's with an AMD DXL-66 MHZ (any difference with the DX?). I just built this: MOBO: PCCHIPS M919 V3.4 B/F CPU: AMD DXL2 66 MHz. RAM: 16 MB …

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Re: What sys specs for 640x480 DOS gaming?

Posted on 2017-04-08, 23:40

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by tauro

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I finally decided to use a P3 1.4 GHz Tualatin, MSI 694T Pro board, and Voodoo3 video card. The only problem is that I only have 1 ISA slot (for the SB16), and I want to use general midi. I tried to use the SB16 midi interface (MPU-401) with a SC-55, but Duke3D stutters and lags from time to time ( …

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What sys specs for 640x480 DOS gaming?

Posted on 2017-04-06, 02:43

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by tauro

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What's your take on the standard system specs and the butter smooth system specs for 640x480 DOS gaming? For example Duke 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood. Name other titles you remember.

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Re: MT-32 (old) rev0 and MT-32 (old) rev1 differences

Posted on 2017-03-07, 07:40

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by tauro

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Maybe the Wikipedia page will be helpful: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_MT-32 MT-32 with revision 0 PCB, used in units up to serial number 851399. The PGA LA32 chip is later replaced with a 100-pin QFP type. I already mentioned this. As far as I know they differ in the LA32 chip packaging, …

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Re: MT-32 (old) rev0 and MT-32 (old) rev1 differences

Posted on 2017-03-07, 05:35

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by tauro

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Thank you for your video and dedication Phil. I knew about your video and saw it a couple of times, and even now again some bits, but there's no reference to the MT-32 old rev1. I'm trying to find information about the MT-32 old rev1 (that is not the same as the MT-32-new that you reviewed).

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MT-32 (old) rev0 and MT-32 (old) rev1 differences

Posted on 2017-03-07, 03:07

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by tauro

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What are the differences between the MT-32 (old) rev. 0 and the MT-32 (old) rev. 1? As far as I know they differ in the LA32 chip packaging, but are there any differences with games?

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Route MIDI-IN to SB16 FM Synth

Posted on 2017-01-05, 23:13

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by tauro

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Hello, I want to play a midi keyboard and have the Sound Blaster 16 play the sound. I'm using Win98SE and a standard DB15 to Midi In/Out cable. So far I've been able to do it using MIDI-OX 16 (newer versions crash). Are there any other ways to accomplish this using different software for Windows or …

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Re: Dualshock 4 and Windows 98SE? It works! Other controllers tested as well.

Posted on 2016-12-26, 21:16

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by tauro

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is very good news. I can confirm it works here. Did anybody try to get it working over bluetooth?

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Re: EMS and usbmass.exe problem

Posted on 2016-12-03, 12:38

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by tauro

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DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE X=? Yes, I guess that could work, but I don't know precisely what part of memory I should specify next to X= After many shots in the dark, I came across with a solution. I don't have an idea why it works but it does. I'd like you to help me figure out why. I can do all the …

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EMS and usbmass.exe problem

Posted on 2016-12-03, 01:45

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by tauro

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I need to load EMS (EMM386.exe) and USBMASS (proprietary usb 2.0 driver) on this harddrive-less Pentium 1 computer. With ems, while usbmass.exe loads, when I check my usb stick dir, instead of the list of files, all I see is "IO.SYS" and nothing else. So I guess this has to do with emm386 and how it …

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Re: Can't backup game floppy

Posted on 2016-11-23, 19:20

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by tauro

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just tried copy2pc v. 5.20, and v. 6.00 and made a copy. And the result is the same! Shouldn't this have solved it? I guess the floppy got bit rotten, because I remember that I was also able to install the game 20 years ago, and now this isn't possible anymore, it doesn't install, and you can only …

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Can't backup game floppy

Posted on 2016-11-23, 14:20

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by tauro

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The game only works in VGA mode running vs_handa.exe directly from the original floppy. That is to say: A:\>vs_handa If I use a copy (created with WinImage, HD-COPY, linux dd, plain ms-dos copy, and more) I only get: [0106:2] This program has not been installed properly! It is a 3 1/4 inch floppy …

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Re: Patch for OpenGL fullscreen bug

Posted on 2016-11-08, 08:48

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by tauro

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Thank you very much for your explanation gulikoza. From what I can gather, it should be a lot slower, shouldn't it? I haven't tried it extensively but so far I notice no change in speed. (By the way, thank you for your glide patch)

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Re: Patch for OpenGL fullscreen bug

Posted on 2016-11-08, 07:30

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by tauro

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This one does it for me, I took x86++ 's patch and just adapted it to the current SVN revision (r4000). --- a/src/gui/sdlmain.cpp 2016-10-02 18:10:03.000000000 -0300 +++ b/src/gui/sdlmain.cpp 2016-11-08 03:59:34.249902561 -0300 @@ -1318,6 +1318,7 @@ sdl.opengl.pixel_buffer_object=(strstr(gl_ext,"GL_ …

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Re: OPL Passthrough under Linux?

Posted on 2016-11-04, 19:58

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by tauro

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Pretty please. I already managed to compile the megabuild6 in Ubuntu 16.04 amd64. I also had to use root to run it, otherwise I got: OPL passthrough: permission denied. Aborting. Tried different configs to no avail. My ports are snd_cmipci: mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388 Any help would be appreciated!

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Re: OPL Passthrough under Linux?

Posted on 2016-09-08, 06:31

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by tauro

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Hello people, I'm trying to accomplish this too. I can't find a DOSBox build that supports hardware OPL under GNU/Linux nor I don't know how to apply any of what is described in this thread. How could I apply the hack by TheLazy1 to the source code and what should I change? Thank you in advance. …

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Re: Corrupted music in dott

Posted on 2016-09-03, 06:03

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clueless1 wrote: Disable cpu cache. DOTT is a speed sensitive game. edit: setmul is a good tool for doing this in software, rather than going from the BIOS: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86 This was it, you were right. This line did it: Copy code to clipboard …

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Corrupted music in dott

Posted on 2016-08-29, 23:12

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by tauro

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Hi there people, I'm trying to get dott to work on an old Pentium MMX (166 Mhz), 64 MB EDO RAM, Sound card is ALS100 (with OPL). Works fine in all games, but dott is giving me headache. Sound works (voices, effects), but music doesn't. All I hear is some kind of corrupted music. It's the same for …

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Re: Help Installing Alone In The Dark

Posted on 2016-08-29, 12:42

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by tauro

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I just wanted to thank ripsaw8080 for the amazing help and information and also RyanFialcowitz for starting the thread. I want to mention that this also affects Alone in the dark 2

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Re: xBRZ - High quality image scaling support for DOSBox

Posted on 2013-01-13, 00:07

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by tauro

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Look at the error log. It tells you how to compile it with your gcc Can that be done? I don't know how to. I looked the log, it says something about adding -std=c++0x, is that it? I wouldn't know how to. Would anybody please help? Thanks in advance

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