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Re: Modern videocards benchmarks on most as possible modern Chipsets and CPUS for pure DOS, we need your numbers + analysis

A possible explanation for the weird 1280x1024 Quake 1 results: As I have written above NVIDIA Maxwell2/Pascal cards have flawed VESA BIOS that prevents hardware based double/triple buffering. If you run Quake 1 on these cards the majority of VESA 2.0 modes (640x480/800x600/1024x768) produce …

Re: Revisiting Soundfonts

I don't think SB16 is relevant here (no soundfont support) but both SB Live! and Audigy can use the hardware based SF2 synth as default midi out for DOS programs if WDM drivers are installed. On Windows 2000/XP WDM drivers are mandatory but on Win9x Vxd drivers are more popular. In case of Vxd …

Re: indirect sound

in Windows
Yes, it is. Or why else would there be DirectSound3D Software providers available in the old versions of Miles Sound System? ... Selecting any of these result in successful initialization on XP: 1. Yes, I was not precise enough. So more precisely: There is no emulated DirectSound3D on XP that gives …

Re: indirect sound

in Windows
Should there be an inherent reason why (at least with a specific game and on XP), more than stereo wouldn't work when audio "hardware acceleration" is disabled in Windows? It's because on Win9x and XP not only EAX and A3D extensions but 3d positional audio itself requires audio hardware/driver …

Re: Windows 10 Simple MIDI Player

in SoftMPU
Especially for MT-32 midi playback (but it's also useful for SC-55 and Yamaha XG) I recommend FSMP: http://falcosoft.hu/softwares.html#midiplayer Because of this: Ways to make your MT-32 MIDIs sound right

Re: My new SoundFonts (SC-88Pro Compatible!)

I do not want to be a party killer, but none of the core libraries of Bass are open source. They are free to use (to a certain extent), but not open source. Ian Luck never released the source code of Bass or Bassmidi libraries. In the download packages you can only find the source code of example …

Re: Best way to test PCI video cards and get specs

The predecessor of AIDA64/Everest was originally written for DOS. It has a pretty rich database about DOS/Win9x era hardware. AIDA(16) : thor_aida16en.zip Edit: I have just noticed that newer versions of AIDA(16) has missing testing/benchmark functionality. Here's an older version that still has it. …

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