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Re: Roland RAP-10/MT-32 Support

Posted on 2017-07-26, 03:44

Also, DOSBox works great with a real MT-32. And sounds better than the emulated one. It's very difficult to tell the difference between an MT-32 and Munt, and the differences shrink with every release. Hmmm... that's quite an update. I think the last time I may have used Munt might have been at …

Re: Any Commodore 64 or Amiga fans here at Vogons?

Posted on 2017-07-26, 03:17

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Ah, yes, the arcades. They live on in large metro areas as barcades now with full liquor licenses. I don't consider Dave & Buster's an arcade as it is way too modern and bright inside. It has to be dark and full of neon like the 80s arcades were. Some I have visited. Ground Kontrol is probably my …

Re: Sound Blaster Emulator for Dos?

Posted on 2017-07-26, 03:07

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I disagree that the PC speaker 'will never go away'. It already has: on laptops, then on desktops, it's been changed from a real speaker to a tiny beeper on the motherboard retained only for signaling errors when other sound is not yet available. Such on-board beepers are worthless for playing …

Re: Any Commodore 64 or Amiga fans here at Vogons?

Posted on 2017-07-26, 02:16

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The original Amiga's 1000/500 had 32 colors on screen at once out of 4096 colors for games, excluding HAM mode which could not be used for anything useful other than stills. In the early days of VGA I remember many games just used the default 256 color palette and could look very drab and ugly if …

Re: Any Commodore 64 or Amiga fans here at Vogons?

Posted on 2017-07-26, 01:01

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Checking here it seems the Amiga 500 only had 32 colors on screen at once but could fake 64 colors using 32 colors at half brightness. True, but Amiga had a huge palette to choose from, 4096 colors, and VGA did not. So depending on the game, there were titles that looked better on the Amiga. Also, …

Re: Best Doom 1 & 2 config?

Posted on 2017-07-26, 00:48

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@95DosBox and koverhbarc You are welcome to report any successes with your suggestions here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=48490 QFG4 and SQ6 are both around 500-600MB, I believe due to full speech. I either of you know of a way to "reverse engineer" the files back to CD, please report …

Re: List the PC games that you have beaten

Posted on 2017-07-26, 00:43

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Good starter list. I noticed it is missing a lot of Sierra Titles. A true PC gamer would have at least King's Quest 1 on it. :happy: Look for these game series: King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Hero's Quest > Quest for Glory. There are some others like Man Hunter and more that went off the …

Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)

Posted on 2017-07-26, 00:24

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However as for recording of the best Mortal Kombat sound samples I must say if you want to remain true to the actual game I would use the MAME and record the MK1 audio from the game directly instead. I also have the MK CD if I wanted the purest sound. The MK1 Sega CD tracks seem to very often be …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2017-07-26, 00:21

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Wow, glad to hear it has a better sound track. I'll have to revisit this game in the future. Did you test this out in DOSBOX? I think what I liked most about WC was it took place in space and the music and sound effects definitely added to the storyline. There was also that orchestra intro with …

Re: Any Commodore 64 or Amiga fans here at Vogons?

Posted on 2017-07-26, 00:07

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Building to the PCjr standard would have been a money-maker as Tandy proved. I think Tandy was successful because they combined PCjr compatibility with regular PC compatibility. Something IBM should have done in the first place. The PCjr failed because it couldn't run a lot of PC/DOS software. The …

Re: Any Commodore 64 or Amiga fans here at Vogons?

Posted on 2017-07-25, 23:47

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I think the VGA and Sound Blaster combo really was what made Amiga's superior graphics and sound no longer the case. Not sure I agree on that one. Aside from the fact that a Sound Blaster alone was about the price of an Amiga 500, and a VGA card was as well, and a VGA monitor was (so you were …

Re: Any Commodore 64 or Amiga fans here at Vogons?

Posted on 2017-07-25, 23:26

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Steve Jobs hated the Apple II series. He hated the fact that it was an open system. He wanted a closed system with a walled garden for the software. Yeah but that's made Apple Apple. Not that boxed up closed system gray rectangular computer with no eject button for the microfloppy and needed a …

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