Re: Innovation SSI 2001 re-engineering and/or conclusions

Posted on 2023-04-03, 06:53

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Of course the 3 voice limitation is quite noticeable, i don't know how much the driver could be improved to support SID advanced features such as changing waveforms on the fly. I also wonder if a modified driver to work with the DuoSID, would result in 6 independent voices. The second SID had to be …

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Re: PX Player: play MID and XMI files under DOS

Posted on 2023-03-31, 04:49

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The following XMI files from Magic Carpet 2 support dual OPL2 playback when dosbox and px are configured for Soundblaster Pro 1: Magic Carpet 2 doesn't have separate support for dual OPL2, to the best of my knowledge. It has four sets of XMI files designed for different devices: - OPL3 (*.XMI) - …

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Re: PX Player: play MID and XMI files under DOS

Posted on 2023-03-06, 15:23

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doesn't the driver have access to some mapping that describes which XMI files are mapped to which audio driver? If only the executable knows about this, well that's too bad... I'm just hoping the driver might be aware, making it at least theoretically possible to extract this info easily …

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Re: PX Player: play MID and XMI files under DOS

Posted on 2023-03-06, 10:55

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Another thing: I was wrong about tempo manipulation capabilities of AIL. Tempo definitely can be adjusted on the fly, and it is probable that Discworld executable does just that. I will include tempo manipulation in the upcoming version of PX.

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Re: PX Player: play MID and XMI files under DOS

Posted on 2023-03-06, 10:36

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I assumed your player sends this reset message by default The player definitely doesn't. It operates above any MIDI terminology due to lots of devices having no clue about MIDI - OPL2/3, PC Speaker, Tandy, C/MS, SSI-2001... you name it. However, the GS reset event might possibly be sent by a …

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Re: PX Player: play MID and XMI files under DOS

Posted on 2023-02-21, 10:12

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- The tempo is wrong with some XMI files from your pack shared in another post. I've experienced this with the Discworld soundtrack. Is the XMI itself wrong in this case, or perhaps your tool doesn't handle the tempo info from the XMI correctly? I really hope the tempo is not just hardcoded in the …

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Re: PX Player: play MID and XMI files under DOS

Posted on 2022-11-05, 14:55

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I've quickly tested PX with Heroes of Jin Yong but found no misbehavior. The game's SAMPLE.AD and SAMPLE.OPL files are identical with PX's default FAT.AD and FAT.OPL; anyway, PX catches the needed .AD/.OPL files from XMI's folder even when I run it from another folder. No idea why did it gave you …

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Re: PX player: play MID and XMI files under DOS

Posted on 2022-10-19, 17:36

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Hello, I'm trying to use PX Player in DOSBox-X to play a midi file from Blood (the Build Engine game) emulating a Gravis Ultrasound using the GF1MIDI driver, but it doesn't work and I'm assuming that's because I don't have the required GTL files (*.AD, *.OPL, *.MT etc.). It does work ingame so the …

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Re: PX: a versatile XMIDI player

Posted on 2022-10-19, 16:10

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I tried PX player in DOSBOX, it seems trying to find .AD/.OPL in current directory, even if I specified the abs path of the xmi, it doesn't find the 2 files in target dir. And the DrvDef.ini is not working I have to set it in command line. Is it related to Dosbox? Also it sound different form the …

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Re: Which Sound Blasters need -5V to operate correctly?

Posted on 2021-09-25, 14:11

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Of all the Sound Blaster lineup only SB 2.0 (CT1350) is affected to the best of my knowledge. Of Pro Audio Spectrum line the early PAS16 models are affected, the later ones (sometimes named Pro Audio Studio 16) are not. Roland LAPC-I is definitely affected as I tried it myself with a common ATX PSU …

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Re: ISA sound cards with digital out.

Posted on 2021-07-10, 16:49

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Avance Logic AV310 Turtle Beach Pinnacle (needs a special daughterboard for S/PDIF output)

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Re: Ripping midi tracks from a game

Posted on 2021-01-26, 10:56

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VyZi wrote on 2021-01-25, 10:48: Sorry for bumping this old post but how did you manage to rip these? Sometimes the files just lie in the game directory, sometimes I used a simple self-written extract tool: Universal XMI extractor.

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Re: Prometheus ARIA16 Sound Card

Posted on 2020-05-05, 02:02

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Either use INSTALL.EXE, or put this into your ARENA.BAT: @A -sariadig.adv -mariaxmid.adv Also, look here or there for a more extensive list of games with native ARIA support. More or less comprehensive list of ARIA supporting games: Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse Capitalism Deluxe Darkhalf Dark Queen …

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Re: Prometheus ARIA16 Sound Card

Posted on 2020-05-03, 14:04

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boxpressed wrote on 2020-05-02, 21:39: I'd like to find a game that natively supports the GM but don't know if one exists. Try these: Elder Scrolls: Arena Lords of the Realm Sim City 2000

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Re: Analog Devices ECHO based soundcard, any info on this?

Posted on 2020-04-30, 15:19

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AD Echo based cards have low quality MIDI engine. There are plenty of them by different manufacturers. Probably the most well-known among them is Orchid SoundWave 32.

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Re: Pro Audio Spectrum supported games?

Posted on 2020-04-21, 12:25

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chinny22 wrote on 2020-04-21, 10:43: I wouldn't be surprised if some of those games are relying on SB compatibility rather then outright support. 8-bit PAS has no SB compatibility. Hence the Thunderboard in the configuration mentioned by OP. Later 16-bit versions of PAS incorporated a Thunderboard …

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Re: Pro Audio Spectrum supported games?

Posted on 2020-04-21, 09:32

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Define 'correct'. If you mean 'are all the 630 MobyGames records correctly depict PAS support', then I don't know. What I do know though, is that Audio Interfrace Library and its heir Miles Sound System both support 8-bit PAS, and while AIL appeared circa 1991, the DOS version of MSS was maintaned …

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Re: Adlib Gold clone - 2THEMAX SoundMedia Multimedia Board?

Posted on 2020-04-03, 16:28

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They are already gone. Whoever bought one, make a good quality photo for our rare soundcard spreadsheet. At least the mysterious 'JDF-SOUNDMEDIA001' sound card is demystified.

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Re: EMU Proteus/1 support for Sierra games?

Posted on 2020-04-01, 12:31

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I don't think you can force Proteus/1 to be GM compatible simply by altering its patch map. It has an ability to renumber its patches, but this doesn't apply to drum sets. And while Proteus/1 has several drum sets, none of them are GM compatible. Windows 3.1 drivers solve this problem by …

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Re: Soundtracks of the past remixed

Posted on 2020-03-10, 17:27

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New cover by me: music from the first level of Baryon: Stage 001

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