Re: How to add loop points to MIDI files?

Posted on 2019-09-26, 20:28

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What game/engine is this for? Some of them handled loops very differently from one another. I know Descent used specific MIDI Event messages to set loop points, but AFAIK those aren't standardized. In that specific case, you end up adding fairly low-level MIDI commands into the sequence. If you're …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-26, 20:12

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^^ looks like "X1" is silkscreened onto the board too next to the slot in question. How do you even do that? Think about how many people must have looked at that design or its prototypes before it hit mass production. Are those component video outs in the ATX I/O area, and a VESA flat panel …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2019-09-26, 08:58

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Uploaded the Creative Video Spigot drivers from this thread. Man, Creative were really knocking it out of the park with product names back then weren't they? Edit: also added Catalyst 4.3 (@Ruthan), SMP files for OS/2 (@FluffyBunnyFeet), and Powerleap 5 (@Keenmaster486). Thanks for the contributions …

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Re: Creative Video Spigot (CT6030) drivers?

Posted on 2019-09-26, 08:35

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For future reference, I've uploaded these to the VogonsDrivers archive. Big thanks to lutello for sharing them here. 😀

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-09-26, 04:32

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Put together this lovely Dell XPS T550, mostly to get it ready to sell, but I figured I could have some fun with it while it was out on (under) the workbench: CameraZOOM-20190924181855553.jpg Specs: PIII/500 on an SE440BX-3 256MB SDRAM 8MB ATI Rage LT Pro PCI Sound Blaster Live Original 13GB HDD …

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Re: WinROTT/WinROTT-GL on Windows 98

Posted on 2019-09-26, 00:23

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Edit: I wrote what was previously here before DosFreak clarified his post above. I'll try the newer update linked & report back.

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Re: WinROTT/WinROTT-GL on Windows 98

Posted on 2019-09-25, 20:11

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Huh, I thought I used to play it on my old laptop which ran 98 years ago. Maybe I'm misremembering. I haven't tried KernelEX yet either though. Edit: WinROTT works fine with KernelEX. Derp. WinRottGL complains about missing DLLs: GLUT32.dll and the hilariously named ASSIMP32.dll . Once those are …

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WinROTT/WinROTT-GL on Windows 98

Posted on 2019-09-25, 19:52

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I thought WinROTT was a long abandoned project, but apparently it's seen some updates since I last checked it out (years ago.) Current builds (WinROTT 2.24 / GLROTT 1.74) seem to be for XP+. Does anyone know what the last/"best" versions of these that runs on Win98SE are?

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-09-22, 06:26

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Just got this somewhat rare (i think) Voodoo 3 PCI in the mail from ebay. https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?id=68378&mode=view IT DOESN'T WORK. I'm mad now -__- What the hell? Is that even a legit 3DFX card? It doesn't look anything like either of my V3s. The "3DFX" mark seems to be in Comic …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2019-09-21, 06:55

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Great episode! As soon as you said “cubes” in the last one, I knew what game it was gonna be, but it was fun to watch all the wrong guesses in the comments (to be fair, Tomb Raider 1-2 was also a pretty good guess.) I'll leave a LONG comment here, as these games WERE my jam back in the day & I was …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-09-21, 00:12

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Umm... 20190920_005039.jpg Yeeeeeeepppp. 20190920_005340.jpg Genuine RF out from the Xbox in case you were wondering; these little TVs don't have any kind of composite input (although I bet they can be modded.) Splitting the signal three ways doesn't quite degrade it beyond usability. 20190920_ …

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Re: OK... weird question but is anyone here near Goldaming England?

Posted on 2019-09-20, 08:51

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Was the dev studio located in that area? Wouldn't be the first time I've seen the programmers' favorite liquoring hole show up in a game.

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2019-09-20, 06:04

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Somebody could make a stable minimalistic Linux distro, that defaults to FAT filesystem and is single user, wiht no login promt :lol: I believe that was done a few decades ago. Names please! ^^ Puppy Linux is pretty close to that, minus the FAT filesystem. I don't even understand why you'd want …

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Re: to use Geforce 256 or to not to

Posted on 2019-09-17, 19:31

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Use it. IF it dies, then you can take it out & put it on display. A dead one sitting on a display shelf is exactly the same as a live one sitting on a display shelf. Unless you're planning to flip it and put something less 'valuable' (*) in, there is literally no point in keeping it 'live' if you're …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-09-17, 09:07

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Did some updates on my *other* Xbox (see previous two pages), which is my original one from a few years ago. Updated the old SID install to Rocky5, backed up the Eeprom (which I never did the first time!), nulled the HDD key, and tweaked the UnleashX settings a bit. This one is going to become my …

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IDE docks that work with old HDDs

Posted on 2019-09-17, 07:53

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I have one of those really cheap IDE to USB cables, but it's a big pain to use. It doesn't have a dedicated power supply, so I have to fish out an ATX PSU & jump the power-on wires every time I want to use it, and I find it's completely hit-and-miss with drives under 20GB or so. Sometimes they need …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-09-15, 10:12

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Waiting on a couple zener diodes before I can build my Xbox EEPROM reader; that'll have to be on Monday. For today, I pulled the BASIC Stamp microcontroller board out of the Space Agency prototype thing I found and got it going. First I soldered a USB cable onto the +5V/Ground leads for power... not …

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Re: Posting Challenge-Oldest Browser, OS and hardware.

Posted on 2019-09-14, 23:49

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Fired up the 1990 Zenith Z286LP Plus 286/12,8megs,VGA,400megIDE hdd,D-Link DE220 10Mbs nic, connected to a D-Link DES-1005D switch connected directly to the fibre ISP supplied router using CAT5A cabling. Static IP address. Running MS Dos 5a, nic Dos packet driver and ARACHNE v1.97/GPL/286- Web …

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Re: Posting Challenge-Oldest Browser, OS and hardware.

Posted on 2019-09-14, 21:32

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Challenge accepted. Thinkpad 365ED Cyrix/IBM 5x86/100 24MB RAM Windows 95 OSR2 Opera 4.02 640x480 screen (not so much fun trying to browse) AWESOME keyboard 3Com PCMCIA 10BT NIC+modem combo card (on my wi-fi via connection sharing from another PC with an auto-negotiating NIC.) Update: photos - okay …

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Re: IT IS THE NINETIES, and you are about to enter a whole new world of

Posted on 2019-09-14, 20:44

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Very interesting read and a supercool project, but why no updates since? Sorry! Basically it took me WAY longer than I wanted to find a solution I liked for the foam pad, and when I finally got something that worked, the thread wasn't fresh in my mind anymore. You'd think a piece of foam wouldn't …

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