Re: Best Sound Cards each year of the 90's

Posted on 2017-04-26, 00:58

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by valnar

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Use DOSBox for early 90's. Build a good Win98 box with an Aureal SQ2500 + Roland SCD-15 if wavetable MIDI is most important, or a Sound Blaster AWE64 if not. Although good luck finding it all.

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Re: DOSBox ECE (Windows, Linux)

Posted on 2017-04-12, 12:32

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by valnar

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OK, to (hopefully) make things clear: If you start DOSBox it will search for these files in this order: dosbox.conf in the same folder the dosbox.exe is, if there is no dosbox.conf it will try to open dosbox-0.74.conf (if you use the last official version) in %LOCALAPPDATA% or dosbox-SVN.conf (if …

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Re: The Roland SC-55 takes on Progressive Rock

Posted on 2017-04-12, 00:30

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by valnar

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I would buy those right now if I could understand Japanese. Is there an English page?

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Re: DOSBox ECE (Windows, Linux)

Posted on 2017-04-11, 23:01

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by valnar

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I also wish we could have the config in the same folder. I don't use an install and therefore C:\Program Files\ or it's derivatives. Seeing how the app is for DOS based games, I have a DOS based mentality with it. 😀

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Re: Is DOSBox Daum dead?

Posted on 2017-04-04, 00:11

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by valnar

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I can't remember everything the ykhwong Daum build had, but I think the ECE build with Networking support would cover all my needs.

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Re: Win98SE Motherboards: When scouting eBay how do you search?

Posted on 2017-04-03, 23:04

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by valnar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, the ultimate WIn98 machine with a tie to the past (ISA slot) would be a 440BX chipset from Intel, specifically the ASUS P2B series of motherboards. Buy yourself a Powerleap PL-IP3/T adapter and you can get up to a PIII Tualatin 1.4Ghz CPU, more than enough for any Win98 game ever invented.

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Re: Pair of Retro PC's

Posted on 2017-04-02, 22:12

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by valnar

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in Marvin \ System Specs

One on Fleabay....

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Re: Modern way to get Roland Sound Canvas for your old PC or DOSBOX!!!

Posted on 2017-04-02, 02:28

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by valnar

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in Marvin \ Sound

Wow, that is a fantastic post. As someone who has an old Roland SCD-15 daughterboard, I was wondering if I could find something more modern to use with DOSBox. I bought the Roland SC app for my iPad and MusicIO but unfortunately it is no longer supported for Windows. What is the recommended way to …

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Re: Compiling IBMulator for Windows...

Posted on 2017-01-25, 01:12

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by valnar

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My first PC ever was a PS/1 model 2121 386SX/16. I have fond memories of that four quadrant start screen with archaic DOS 4.0 and Windows 3.0 Alas my main rig is Windows 7 32-bit for reasons of backward compatibility so IBMulator doesn't run on my main rig being 64-bit, although I have seen it in …

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Re: A build (and source) of SVN+WengierLFN+MegabuildParallel etc.

Posted on 2016-05-19, 20:25

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by valnar

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The more you can add from DOSBox-X and ykhwong's excellent build, the better!

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2016-02-02, 14:52

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by valnar

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Hey everyone... Without reading the whole thread, is there a quick synopsis of how the DOSBox-X branch differs from regular DOSBox, or even better, from ykhwong's last build with all his add-ons? It doesn't appear Taewoong is updating his version any more and that was my go-to build. Thanks.

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Re: Pair of Retro PC's

Posted on 2015-05-04, 22:46

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by valnar

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I decided I might be willing to sell one of these old PC's, midi boards and all. I haven't been on Vogons in ages. Are we allowed to do that here?

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Re: FreeDOS Is 20 Years Old!

Posted on 2014-12-05, 14:38

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by valnar

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Is this the year FreeDOS finally gets it right? 😵

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Re: Best LCD for DOS games running on old hardware

Posted on 2014-04-02, 12:08

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by valnar

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

1280x1024 was when LCD's started getting good. Unfortunately the 5:4 AR messed things up. 1024x768 LCD's are mostly older and have slower response times. In a perfect world, DOS gamers would love a modern day 1024x768 LCD with 2ms response. I also love my Dell 2209WA if you want a do-all monitor. …

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Re: Best LCD for DOS games running on old hardware

Posted on 2014-04-01, 16:26

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by valnar

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice. Let us know how you like them.

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Re: Best LCD for DOS games running on old hardware

Posted on 2014-04-01, 15:20

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by valnar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Check this web site to see what panels are in what monitors. It is not always updated, but contains all the 4:3 monitors we would care about. http://lcdtech.info/en/data/lcd.panels.in.monitors.htm?sz=&tm=&sm=&res=&br=&cr=&rt=&va=&man=&typ=&pan=&showobsolete=on As mentioned previously, if you want a …

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Re: PCEm. Another PC emulator.

Posted on 2014-03-01, 16:15

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by valnar

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My first PC was an IBM PS/1 with that start screen. Wasn't Prodigy one of the options? I'd love to see that again. It had a semi-integrated12" VGA monitor with a horrible dot pitch IIRC, something like .39

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Re: Real mode DOS PCI Sound Card

Posted on 2014-02-17, 20:39

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by valnar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I second (or third?) an Aureal Vortex2 board. Works in DOS but is SBPro compatible, not SB16. FM is poor but it's wavetable header works in pure DOS too.

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Re: Fast systems with ISA

Posted on 2014-02-14, 11:56

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by valnar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Like I said above in this thread, I've tried that. Descent2 @ 800x600 SVGA, Quake @ 800x600 SVGA, and Duke3D @ 800x600 SVGA, and Tex Murphy @ 800x600 SVGA, BLOOD @ 800x600 SVGA, all of them, I've tried a P3 copermine @ 1ghz, I've tried an Athlon Tbird @ 1.4 ghz, none of them were smooth and fast …

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Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2014-02-12, 21:02

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by valnar

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Yeah, these Miracle monitors were a rare gem. SVGA up to 1024x768, color, and a standard DB15 VGA connector. Those POS systems didn't have any of that!

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