Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2020-04-07, 07:15

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1. All Controllers Off (CC#121) does not affect RPN/NRPN settings. While the exact implementation details of CC#121 can depend on the device usually only these controllers are affected: cc121.png 2. In case of GM/GS/XG compatible devices the best practice is to send GM/GS/XG reset SysEx messages to …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2020-04-06, 19:32

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After investigations I found out that the 0001.mid song is issuing an RPN controller setting that modifies a parameter called "Pitch bend", and the odd effect you noticed in the doom ep1 tune is a surviving consequence. The reason why this RPN setting makes troubles is not entirely clear to me. …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2020-04-06, 12:21

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i can hear the problem with your test files: with file dosbox_000.avi after 16 seconds the overdriven guitar is played with a strange looping sound. (same at second 20 and second 25) Ah, indeed - now I hear it. I wasn't sure what to pay attention to. I am impressed you were able to spot this, I …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-04-06, 11:44

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Hello Martin, I am glad to see HwInfo DOS having a reboot! I have a somewhat formal request though: could you please clarify the licensing terms? I assume HwInfo DOS is now "freeware, use at your own risk", is that correct? Is it okay to repackage it for further distribution, keeping all the …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2020-04-05, 21:25

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here are the 2 files the doom midi file plays ok but when i play the other file 1st (just 5 sec are enough) and then the doom file the overdriven guitar plays with a strange sound Hello Karr, I finally found some time to set up dosbox with gus emulation. Sadly, I am unable to reproduce the problem …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2020-04-01, 08:31

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i have 2 midi files when i play file 1 it plays ok same for file 2 but when i play file 1 and then quit dosmid and play file 2 there are strange playback errors. to fix that i have to close and restart dosbox may be its a bug in dosmid or with ultramid not resetting gus memory completely after each …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2020-03-31, 18:21

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it would be better/easier to use DOS navigator or some similar browser and configure it so it executes DOSMid to play MIDI/RMI/MUS files. great idea :-) question is how to do that from the few DOS file browsers that I could quickly check, it appears to be a fairly easy task. DosZip: add a line …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2020-03-31, 07:54

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i am not sure if you read my pm. would be nice if dosmid would have a basic gui to select drive, folder and midi file. Hello Karr, in fact I have seen your pm only now. Yes, some basic gui would be nice indeed, but to be honest I doubt I will ever find the time to do it. It's not trivial because …

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Re: zBoy - a GameBoy Classic emulator

Posted on 2020-01-30, 17:53

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keropi wrote on 2020-01-30, 16:48: a new emulator for DOS! Not that new - I released the first public version 10 years ago... :-) keropi wrote on 2020-01-30, 16:48: what are the system requirements? It's a 32-bit (protected mode) application, so it requires at least a 386. But for comfortable …

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zBoy - a GameBoy Classic emulator

Posted on 2020-01-30, 16:21

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Today I published zBoy v0.71, so I thought it's a good occasion to drop a note here on Vogons about it, since I apparently never have. zBoy is a multiplatform emulator of the classic (black & white) GameBoy. It runs on Linux, BSD, Windows, MS-DOS, and probably some other platforms. Version 0.71 …

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Re: Gopherus - your window to the gopherspace

Posted on 2020-01-23, 20:49

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...and yesterday I released a minor 1.2.1 revision that fixes a stability problem on the real-mode DOS build.

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Re: Gopherus - your window to the gopherspace

Posted on 2020-01-19, 13:50

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Today Gopherus v1.2 got published. Gopherus v1.2 [19 Jan 2020]: - [new] bookmarks ("b" key), - [new] UTF-8 support, - [new] IPv6 support (except on the DOS target), - [new] full terminal width used now (no longer limited to 80 columns), - [new] all files from current folder can be downloaded by …

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Re: ethflop - a network-backed floppy emulator for DOS

Posted on 2019-10-09, 13:11

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jmarsh wrote: TFTP is so basic it doesn't allow random reads/writes, only whole files can be transferred. It would also require a full-blown ARP+IP+UDP implementation, significantly increasing the code size, thus memory footprint.

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Re: ethflop - a network-backed floppy emulator for DOS

Posted on 2019-10-05, 14:40

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This makes things so much easier. No GoTek floppy emulator required, and no messing with USB sticks either. Just read the "floppy" straight from the network. Genius! I like your enthusiasm. I wonder if this code could be modified to provide Sound Blaster emulation over a network as well. A Sound …

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ethflop - a network-backed floppy emulator for DOS

Posted on 2019-10-03, 21:20

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Hello, I published today a new DOS tool: a "virtual floppy over Ethernet", targeted to ancient PCs. ethflop is a DOS TSR that emulates a floppy disk drive. The emulated (virtual) floppy disk is, in fact, stored on a Linux server as a floppy image. All the communication between ethflop (the TSR) and …

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Re: VM appliance for EtherDFS server

Posted on 2019-08-31, 06:14

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What's the advantage of this over FreeNAS? Smaller footprint? FreeNAS works well for my needs and still supports SMB1 so until that's dropped I should be good. Is your SMB solution able to run on a no-NIC 8086 with 256K of total memory? EtherDFS is. EtherDFS ( http://etherdfs.sourceforge.net ) has …

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Re: VM appliance for EtherDFS server

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Largely for my own amuesment, I've created a VM virtual 'appliance' that runs the server for EtherDFS with 'just enough OS' - hopefully this may make it easier for those who are not Linux/Unix people to try out EtherDFS. IMHO once it's working it's an awesome solution and I'm surprised there is …

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Dr. Mind

Posted on 2019-08-30, 09:58

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Ever wanted to play some Mastermind, but had no one to play with? Dr. Mind comes to the rescue! Dr. Mind is a PC adaptation of the Mastermind(TM) board game. The computer generates a secret color code, then the player has to figure out the exact pattern through deduction. Requirements: PC-compatible …

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Re: Gopherus - your window to the gopherspace

Posted on 2019-02-27, 07:54

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Yes it does, although it's vestigial at this point. When I counted few years ago, there was about 100 surviving gopher servers left in the world. Recently I got curious again, so I created the Observable Gopherspace Universe Project (OGUP) at [url]gopher://gopher.viste.fr/1/ogup[/url] The OGUP …

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Gopherus - your window to the gopherspace

Posted on 2019-02-26, 20:45

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Gopherus is a free, multi-platform, console-mode gopher client available for DOS, Linux (POSIX) and Windows. It provides a classic text interface to the gopherspace. The DOS version is available in two flavours: a 16-bit, real-mode version for 8086+ and a 32-bit, protected mode version for 386+. The …

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