Re: Anybody own a house?

Posted on 2016-03-30, 12:46

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by gdjacobs

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You are right, but if you just have a standard concrete slab without ventilation or basement it is unlikely to keep radon away. Most slabs tend to develope cracks over time, depending on climate, house/foundation settling etc. The main thing is to make sure you have proper ventilation, that's all. …

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Re: Goliath 486 tower recovered from the dump

Posted on 2016-03-30, 12:41

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by gdjacobs

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Keep your eyes open for an S3 VLB card and an IO/IDE controller (with 16550A uarts and EPP) for even more awesome!

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Re: I cannot get DOS box to install my Stars Game

Posted on 2016-03-30, 09:59

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by gdjacobs

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It's fair to install Windows 3.1 and run it under DOSBox that way, no? DOSBox does run Windows 3.1 after all. There may be support limitations if it doesn't work, but why not try?

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Re: Adding a RAM slot?

Posted on 2016-03-30, 09:48

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by gdjacobs

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With the right tools would this be possible? Also, does anyone recommend a good solder sucker device? How much of this type of modding do you plan on performing? Equipment runs from something as simple as a roll of solder braid to solder suckers, cheap Chinese desoldering irons to quality Hakko and …

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Re: Problem with General Midi on ESS 1688F

Posted on 2016-03-30, 07:54

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by gdjacobs

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Windows has the capability of redirecting MIDI ports, often using software wavetable output (MS synth). Creative AWE cards can redirect data from an emulated MPU-401 interface (presented by a DOS driver) to the EMU chip, but this is not completely perfect. Perhaps a TSR could be made to interpret …

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Re: Problem with General Midi on ESS 1688F

Posted on 2016-03-30, 06:58

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by gdjacobs

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Which daughterboard or MIDI module are you using? Something needs to be there to receive and interpret the MIDI data.

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Re: MSDOS 6 Networking.

Posted on 2016-03-30, 06:32

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by gdjacobs

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Does your driver disk have an ODI directory? If so, have a look for documentation there.

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Re: I cannot get DOS box to install my Stars Game

Posted on 2016-03-30, 06:29

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by gdjacobs

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This game? http://www.mobygames.com/game/stars

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Re: Low Memory - Mechwarrior 2 games

Posted on 2016-03-30, 06:05

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by gdjacobs

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Mech 2 and GBL run great with 16 MB of RAM or more on real hardware. Task Manager tells nothing about the usage of DOS memory in your simulated machine when using DOSBox.

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Re: Low Memory - Mechwarrior 2 games

Posted on 2016-03-30, 05:38

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It doesn't refer to disk storage. Disk storage is determined by the inderlying, which in the case of DOSBox is the mounted folder or image. It's not set by the conf file. I'm sorry for being snippy, but this seemed pretty straightforward from the beginning. The config file for DOSBox has good inline …

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Re: MSDOS 6 Networking.

Posted on 2016-03-30, 05:25

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by gdjacobs

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DOS drivers, including those discussed in the article above, are generally interchangeable within reason. The information regarding IPX applies to all DOS versions (except maybe Caldera, as they sometimes built such things in). In fact, drivers were generally created for MS-DOS and used in …

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Re: Low Memory - Mechwarrior 2 games

Posted on 2016-03-30, 05:17

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Please read about the difference between RAM and persistent disk storage.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-30, 05:00

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Bought this DAC and headphone amp at the local thrift shop for $25. 🤣 Currently for decoding spdif from my sound card. Not using it for this, but it can power speakers as well. One surround channel is failed open, so I'll fix that in time.

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Re: Anybody own a house?

Posted on 2016-03-29, 10:32

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Oh, and about radon. It doesn't matter if you have solid concrete or not, it's radiation and comes through everything. Radon is a gas. It's dangerous because it can be inhaled and emit alpha particles within the lungs, and because it decays rapidly into solids which can accumulate in the …

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Re: Emulating MT-32 on an RPi2

Posted on 2016-03-29, 10:14

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by gdjacobs

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I've bisected the commits and think I've found the problematic one: Re: Munt Reloaded - Development Edit: Confirmed, using the git tree at commit 9939950 works safely. Update: Apr. 4, 2016 Fixed in the latest git.

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Re: Munt Reloaded - Development

Posted on 2016-03-29, 09:51

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While working on ARM builds, mt32d and xmt32 were both found to segfault for recent git commits. I've performed a bisection analysis and believe I've located the problematic commit, but I would appreciate confirmation. Here's the output: 961ec3ce7d06974e10e3c786d505c21fb43f35c4 is the first bad …

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Re: SB AWE64 MIDI support: What am I missing here?

Posted on 2016-03-29, 03:04

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by gdjacobs

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In many ways, the AWE64 is less a DOS sound device than a Windows sound device. This is a prime illustrative example.

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Re: Missing SMD capacitor on 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 PCI

Posted on 2016-03-29, 01:11

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by gdjacobs

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Nice! You can oil the fan motor if you like. I use petroleum jelly.

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Re: Two Soundblaster ISA Soundcards at once?

Posted on 2016-03-28, 23:44

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by gdjacobs

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Right now I have a CS4232 card taking the place of what eventually will be a dedicated intelligent mode MPU-401. It's installed alongside my CT2800 card and used exclusively as an MPU-401 uart and daughterboard host. The only tricky element of this install is mapping out resources for both cards to …

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Re: MSDOS 6 Networking.

Posted on 2016-03-28, 16:41

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by gdjacobs

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You need to look into ODI drivers (or the packet to ODI shim) plus the other layers of the IPX stack. See below. http://freedos.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php … er_installation

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