Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi

Posted on 2018-11-10, 01:19

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Now: about loop i mean Loop Detected (as now, standard) / Loop detected (from 0). This for me would be usefull, really. Unfortunately I do not understand anything about this :) Concerning playlist i mean time/lenght/starting point summary: if i record in session mode a single file, i want to know …

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Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi

Posted on 2018-11-08, 19:16

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Really Thank you. In a similar way it worked: If i use the reset with my custom sysex, volume was reset to 100%. But If I sent my custom sysex, and then in the reset i specified no sysex, volume remain the volume i wish. Now i'm be able to record trough coax output with this synth too. Aldo I'm …

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Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi

Posted on 2018-11-07, 22:46

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HI. Just an info: there's a way to send a custom sysex before each midi file in automatic way? (I?ve a synth: Roland FantomXR, with broken display... I've found the right command "F0 41 10 00 6B 12 02 00 00 05 40 7C F7" to correct master volume to 50% but I've to manually send the sysex just after …

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Re: Fasttracker 2.10b for MS-DOS

Posted on 2018-11-07, 18:20

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Oh, my... I never expected this could happen. Also I have not noticed your Win32/64 Fasttracker II clone so far. It also works very well, and includes Nibbles 😀

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Re: Old+Modern videocards pure DOS performance- which one is fastest?, need your numbers + analysis, 320x200 to 1600x1200!

Posted on 2018-11-07, 12:07

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Typically even Geforce 6/7 cards do not list 1600x1200 but 1280x1024 as the biggest supported resolution. Also some cards (e.g. my Inno3D Geforce 6600 AGP) do not list even 1280x1024 as a supported resolution right after boot in DOS, but it lists 1280x1024 after you booted Windows and drivers …

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Re: Video bios(vBIOS) rom size research project for pure DOS, because there is smaller better.. Add our info.

Posted on 2018-11-07, 08:02

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Freepascal: I just tried it and compiled hello new word with it for fun and my Antivirus Avira though that is some virus,i guess that if it would be more used on marked, that they would exclude that in their rules.. Nowadays AV engines are overly paranoid. They think 100 false positives are still …

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Re: Old+Modern videocards pure DOS performance- which one is fastest?, need your numbers + analysis, 320x200 to 1600x1200!

Posted on 2018-11-07, 07:27

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I wonder if its possible somehow on software side fix, that 1600x1200 is not available on some modern cards, or its rom thing? Yes, it's a 'ROM thing' in many cases. You can use the attached VESAINFO utility to list all supported VESA modes. (type 'VESAINFO /l |more'). VESAINFO.zip Typically even …

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Re: Old+Modern videocards pure DOS performance- which one is fastest?, need your numbers + analysis, 320x200 to 1600x1200!

Posted on 2018-11-05, 10:17

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Update: Navratil System info reports with different cards, different page sizes? Could it have some performance effect too? Its bigger or smaller better? You should interpret this info in its context: Namely 'Current video Mode: 3' and 'Video Segment address: B800h' show that this info refers to …

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Re: Video bios(vBIOS) rom size research project for pure DOS, because there is smaller better.. Add our info.

Posted on 2018-11-04, 15:57

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This Windows stuff is nice too, but i wanted to know if such info is available even in DOS in theory, or is inaccessible from it. I don't think such information is available in DOS from the Bios ROM area at 0xC0000. This kind of info would occupy valuable space without any advantage since it's …

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Re: Video bios(vBIOS) rom size research project for pure DOS, because there is smaller better.. Add our info.

Posted on 2018-11-03, 12:25

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BTW do you think that its possible from Firmware with datasheet help read its real DOS GPU / VRAM clocks for modern cards which have more than 1 power / clock states? What about VRAM size, MTRR from Rayer is during execution reporting some modern cards as 4 MB, others 14 a or 16 MB? Make this …

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Re: micro$oft vbdos

Posted on 2018-11-03, 12:02

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I think protected mode programming for DOS was more or less limited to Assembler, C and C++. Not entirely true, even the old Turbo/Borland Pascal 7 compiler supported 286+ 16-bit protected mode DOS target. Also Free Pascal compiler has 386+ 32-bit protected mode support for DOS for more than 2 …

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Re: Video bios(vBIOS) rom size research project for pure DOS, because there is smaller better.. Add our info.

Posted on 2018-11-02, 11:46

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Interesting thread - never really thought about this. Can’t you turn Video bios shadowing off in bios? Or is that referring to copying the entire rom vs payload executed portion? If Video Bios Shadow is disabled then the content of ROM is not copied to RAM and read directly from ROM when used, but …

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Re: Video bios(vBIOS) rom size research project for pure DOS, because there is smaller better.. Add our info.

Posted on 2018-11-02, 09:26

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To results in first post i added which tool was used to extract info, at least for now i dont have any Bios dumps, but i would expect that it would be just 1:1 ROM copy.. if understand correctly you are saying that now whole ROM could be used for Vbios bios? If you dump video bios (firmware is a …

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Re: Video bios(vBIOS) rom size research project for pure DOS, because there is smaller better.. Add our info.

Posted on 2018-11-01, 21:24

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Please remember that for UMB usage with EMM386 there is a 4 KB alignment limit. So you should increment your #15 Inno3D Geforce 7600 GT: 55 KB reported by FalcoSoft from 55 to 56 KB. I do not think reported video bios sizes should be altered because of EMM386 4K alignment. These are 2 completely …

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Re: Video bios(vBIOS) rom size research project for pure DOS, because there is smaller better.. Add our info.

Posted on 2018-11-01, 07:21

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Thanks for explanation and results, especially G960 looks nice, i expected 72 KB or something like that every KB counts. Make sure you do not compare results you got with VBSize vs Bios File (Bios dumps) vs Checkit. VBSize and debug method report the size of the memory payload. A BIOS file contains …

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Re: Video bios(vBIOS) rom size research project for pure DOS, because there is smaller better.. Add our info.

Posted on 2018-10-31, 20:44

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[ What does exactly that shr 1 parameter? It is 'shift right by one bit'. It's actually equivalent to a division by 2. Since you get the result in 512 byte units the full calculation is: Results in KB = xx * 512 / 1024 -> xx / 2. (Shift is much faster than division and not all compilers use it …

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Re: Video bios(vBIOS) rom size research project for pure DOS, because there is smaller better.. Add our info.

Posted on 2018-10-31, 19:28

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ruthan wrote: kjliew : Thanks, that is what i needed, the would be nice to write small utility to was show result in KB (do calculation automatically), if someone is capable. I have just written a one-liner for you that does just the above: Filename VBSIZE.zip File size 2.5 KiB Downloads 357 …

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Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi

Posted on 2018-10-31, 09:02

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Ok, I have added button-local right click mouse + app-global Caps Lock sustain functions. Be aware that Caps Lock system global function cannot be disabled so it always also switches Caps Lock status when you press it (I know it's not ideal but no other single key shortcut remained to use). http:// …

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Re: Old+Modern videocards pure DOS performance- which one is fastest?, need your numbers + analysis, 320x200 to 1600x1200!

Posted on 2018-10-30, 19:35

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However in most cases the performance (and thus frame rate) will be increased, Of course, in theory page flipping should be always faster, unless drawing to video memory directly is much slower than to system memory. Page flipping saves an unnecessary Bit Block Transfer from system memory to video …

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Re: Old+Modern videocards pure DOS performance- which one is fastest?, need your numbers + analysis, 320x200 to 1600x1200!

Posted on 2018-10-30, 12:58

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Of course more results are always better since they can show a more detailed picture, but it means more work for you/for your contributors. Anyway here's a detailed description about the vid_nopageflip 1 option: vid_nopageflip This variable toggles the use of page-flipping during supported video …

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