Re: USB storage drivers that work in DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2020-03-17, 11:06

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by Falcosoft

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Legacy mode is for keyboard and mouse only, which appear as ps/2 devices then. Sometimes yes, but not necessarily/not only. Mass_Storage_BIOS.jpg E.g. contrary to the above with this board 'Legacy USB Support' also refers to USB Mass Storage Devices. If you disable 'Legacy USB Support' USB drives …

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Re: Mt-32 music player?

Posted on 2020-03-10, 21:00

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Thanks, Falcosoft, for your midi player! I can finally loop midi files correctly when they have loop markers in them using Windows 98SE. I used Van Basco's before and it's otherwise fine but I couldn't figure out how to loop midi files properly. Now I am experiencing a weird issue however. I …

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

Posted on 2020-03-10, 07:40

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I was trying to recording music from a game, but I think I've found an issue, because, as each midi I'm loading has the relative soundfont, midiplayer is loading Soundfont incrementing the bank... Hi, Actually It's not an issue, it's a feature :) More precisely a side effect of this feature: 15 . …

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Re: Any known issues running Windows XP 32 bit with 8 GB RAM installed?

Posted on 2020-03-05, 18:42

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While Titan X(M) "takes" 512MB No it doesn't and I can't see how the screen shots you posted indicate it does. The prefetch area is 288 MB so there is no way it uses 512 MB! Well, when I swap GPU from Titan Black to Titan X(M), my available RAM drops to 2,94GB (can be seen both in task manager and …

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Re: Any known issues running Windows XP 32 bit with 8 GB RAM installed?

Posted on 2020-03-04, 14:58

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32-bit WinXP has no problem with more than 4GB installed RAM. Red-ray is right, the maximum available memory under 32-bit Windows is determined by the lowest starting address of any video card's linear frame buffer not by the amount of Video RAM. Starting address of LFB: 0xC0000000 -> 3GB available …

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Re: Google Safe browsing Advisory

Posted on 2020-03-02, 17:42

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Or are you suggesting that these AV heuristics are nothing other than a bunch of whitelists and everything not on it gets flagged? This doesn't seem true. It's definitely true for reputation based heuristics but no, generally I'm just suggesting that many AV engine use some dumb static pattern …

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Re: Google Safe browsing Advisory

Posted on 2020-03-02, 09:57

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... What makes your program special that it triggers all these false positives time after time again? It's not special at all. This is a common problem that affects many small developers. E.g: http://blog.nirsoft.net/2009/05/17/antivirus-companies-cause-a-big-headache-to-small-developers/ https:// …

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

Posted on 2020-02-28, 00:34

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Hi, Falco! I've got a pair of MT-32 banks somewhere from the internets in SYX format, could they be loaded into MuntVsti somehow? I've tried loading with Hermann Seib's VSTHost (Engine->Send SysEx file) and with your MidiPlayer (SysEx options->Select/Send custom SysEx) to no avail. Aforementioned …

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Re: DOS 7.1 With Large Hard Drives

Posted on 2020-02-26, 22:45

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... I never tried xp on fat32 with dos at the same time before,so that makes it easier.win98 had them named autoexec.dos and config.dos. Yes, since contrary to XP Win9x actually uses the same named files to boot as DOS. So when you install Win9x to the same partition as DOS, Win9x has to rename not …

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Re: DOS 7.1 With Large Hard Drives

Posted on 2020-02-26, 14:19

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To get around the problem of xp using dos autoexec.bat and config.sys ... There can not be such problem since XP never uses autoexec.bat and config.sys. XP is NT based so it uses its own boot process that has nothing to do with DOS boot files. While XP is running its internal virtual DOS …

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Re: VMware DOS sound improved.. now is finally possible to play FX + FM together!

Posted on 2020-02-26, 08:32

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... Direct3D is still better that Direct2D problems.. Only game where i have problem with dgVoodoo2 is Blood2. I think you mixed up Direct2D with Directdraw. Direct2D is a rather new (Vista+) HW accelerated 2D API based on DirectX 11. Blood2 and similar titles definitely do not use Direct2D but …

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

Posted on 2020-02-23, 17:29

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Some wishes to the midi player:... As you may have noticed there have not been any new versions released lately. It's because I have no much free time nowadays. So I cannot promise your wishes will be implemented in the near future. Regarding point 9 on your list it's already implemented. From the …

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2020-02-18, 09:18

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Anyone tried SetMul with a Duron on a SocketA system? I have an Abit KT7A and I'm thinking about downgrading my AthlonXP 1500+ to a Duron 700 in the hopes of getting more slowdown choices. Currently, SetMul only allows me to disable the L1 cache on the AthlonXP which puts it at around 386 levels, …

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Re: Blood II black screen (Win 10 / dgVoodoo 2.63.1)

Posted on 2020-02-15, 15:10

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Blood 2 has a relatively high chance of crashing at points like that if it's not run with single core affinity (WinXP compatibility mode is the simple way to set it). .. WinXp compatibility mode does NOT set single core affinity. It would be very counter-intuitive if it did so since XP itself and …

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Re: SBVGM (DOS) VGM Player

Posted on 2020-02-06, 07:53

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FreddyV wrote on 2020-02-05, 12:19: Does anybody have an idea about Small command line music player for DOS / 8086 ? (Like Midi one) DOSMid? DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

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Re: What are some Sierra MPC games for Windows 3.1 with this setup?

Posted on 2020-02-03, 16:40

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Thanks for such an informative response, Falcosoft. It hadn't occurred to me that Basic/Extended MIDI were inferior alternatives to GM. When you install the Multisound, the only preset in MIDI Mapper available is the MultiSound (no basic or extended), and all 16 channels are marked active. Does …

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Re: What are some Sierra MPC games for Windows 3.1 with this setup?

Posted on 2020-02-03, 06:30

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Interesting. So using the same SCC-1, I'll get better MIDI music from the DOS version vs. the "Extended MIDI" Windows 3.1 MPC version? Why is that? Actually both Basic and Extended means reduced channel usage compared to Full GM /GS compatible 16 channels. Basic uses only 4 channels (13-16) and …

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Re: Disk cache drops performance massively

Posted on 2020-01-31, 17:52

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No, it isn't. After copying 2 times to NUL, the file is completely in disk cache. But the performance is still horrible. Yest it's. Re-read what I have written. Disk cache performance is not (only) about bulk file copies... Anyway, how a 130 MB file could be 'completely in disk cache' under DOS …

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Re: Disk cache drops performance massively

Posted on 2020-01-31, 13:54

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Hi, I have the feeling that the title of this thread is a little misleading. Generally it's true that "caching drops bulk COPY performance". It's not only true in case of disk caches but caches in general. Caching relies on the principle of locality (temporal/spatial). Caching in general works well …

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Re: Compaq Pentium 166

Posted on 2020-01-28, 08:39

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The problem is you have installed the WDM driver instead of the Vxd one. With the WDM driver installed you have only generic SB DOS compatibility through Windows WDM driver infrastructure. The Vxd driver provides much better SB DOS compatibility through Creative's own SB 16 emulation . In case of SB …

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