Re: programming environment for dos

Posted on 2018-10-08, 14:06

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Well, you are bored with it, becaus it is Bor(e)land! *ba-dum-tssss* However I agree: Watcom or DJGPP are in some ways easier, due to protected mode allowing for much simpler memory management, compared to the hell that is segmented real mode. 😉

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Re: programming environment for dos

Posted on 2018-10-08, 13:21

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Also, DJGPP makes porting existing software from Linux and the like much easier, because it uses a familiar toolchain and the headers + libraries are virtually the same. Also, if you simply want to teach your son programming in DOS, you can also stick with Borland C++, which will come with its own …

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iMuse driver for Tandy sound?

Posted on 2018-10-07, 11:13

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Was there ever and iMuse driver for Tandy sound? I.e. some ims driver for Monkey 2 or Indy 4? Or maybe even DoTT, SWOTL or X Wing? For that matter: were there ever other iMuse drivers developed, apart from what Lucas Arts shipped?

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Re: Found a Macintosh discarded in the dumpster this morning

Posted on 2018-10-07, 08:13

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Congratulations! The Mac Pros still are awesome machines. Should be able to run some OSX version just fine. Awesome allround machines.

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Re: FMonster, the monster of sound synth

Posted on 2018-10-07, 06:36

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There was apparently a really good write up on dual opls on questdstudios that's now dead that was often referenced for how great they were with examples that makes me really want to see it: "dual OPL2 supremacy" but so far no luck digging it up. A gem lost forever or did someone save it? http:// …

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Re: Raptor: "This ain't no Dinosaur Game" (1994, MS-DOS)

Posted on 2018-10-04, 18:33

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Maybe this is a good point to start a Vogons Video Thread? I also release videos once or twice a week. We could collect all the video announcements there. 😀

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Re: Some 80286 questions

Posted on 2018-10-03, 06:09

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You rise quite a lot of questions. And I think they are not straightforward to answer. Well, except that the 80287 was rather the exception. For your other question I think you would need to make a kind of statistic: either from ebay auctions and pictures, or by researching old PC magazines e.g.on …

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Re: Internal DVD drives period correct?

Posted on 2018-10-03, 06:02

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First DVD readers came out in 1996. I remember that people had them around 1998. Early adopters were probably having them 1-2 years before.

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Re: 486dx-33 or 486dx-66 ?

Posted on 2018-10-02, 19:41

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If you stick with ISA the 33 is good enough. The bus will be the bottleneck. If you go for a VLB board, I would go with the DX/2 66.

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Re: BlasterBoard 2.0 : A modern SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card

Posted on 2018-10-02, 18:53

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LABS wrote: Just received some fresh OPL2s 😀 I still have a bunch + DACs. Would love to put them to use.

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Re: Music Quest MPU clone cards, anyone interested in them?

Posted on 2018-10-02, 09:39

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Do those demos run on a 286? Then I can test it as well.

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Re: BlasterBoard 2.0 : A modern SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card

Posted on 2018-10-01, 15:44

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That runtime error looks like the typical Turbo Pascal problem when running on a too fast PC...

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Re: Music Quest MPU clone cards, anyone interested in them?

Posted on 2018-10-01, 10:35

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The mqdiag tool had no problems, and neither did the games that I tried (Monkey 1 & 2, SQ 1 & 3, KQ 4, Populous, Prince of Persia 2). Windows 3.1 also worked fine. Did you check if maybe your VGA card has an IRQ jumper? Also would love to see a recording of that demo!

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Re: Music Quest MPU clone cards, anyone interested in them?

Posted on 2018-10-01, 09:10

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I have no problem running the card on IRQ 2 in my 286. I think it is unused normally. I once heard that some VGA cards use IRQ 2...?

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Re: Music Quest MPU clone cards, anyone interested in them?

Posted on 2018-09-30, 21:59

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One more long-ish demo of the board with my SC-55 MkII: LOOM, EGA version with Roland upgrade and overture: https://youtu.be/nJSlnDJNr1k

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Re: MS-DOS goes MIT

Posted on 2018-09-30, 16:19

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That is pretty cool - I wonder if 'ol Bill wrote any code in those versions. If MS was anything like the place I work at currently, then 90% of it would be cut-and-pasted code from V1.0. I also wonder why 6.2 wouldn't be open sourced yet - is someone still making a buck off something that old? …

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Re: Diamond Flower 486-25/33/50 UCE

Posted on 2018-09-30, 06:33

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Don't fix a running system... That said I have a mysterious 386 board with a similar expansion slot. Never figured out what it's for. RAM or Cache... I never owned a 486 with more than 256 KiB cache. Would be intriguing, but I guess the limiting factor on this machine will be the ISA bus. Edit: this …

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Re: EZ Win-NT 3.51 Build

Posted on 2018-09-30, 06:19

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Posts with Photos get more hits and they are more understandable. Easy YES, NOT entirely period correct. Windows NT 3.51 - 1995 Pentium ll - 1997 Sound Blaster 16 - 1992 And YES, WinNT 3.51 came in a CD install disk too so a CDROM was required. So if you have a CDROM drive you most likely have a …

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Re: BlasterBoard 2.0 : A modern SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card

Posted on 2018-09-29, 19:55

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How would that work out? I thought those would use an OPL3? The first-generation Sound Blaster Pro used dual OPL2, as did the original Pro Audio Spectrum. http://www.amoretro.de/wp-content/uploads/creative_sound_blaster_pro_ct1330a_dual_opl2_isa_sound_card.jpg Oh, TIL! One for each stereo channel?

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Re: BlasterBoard 2.0 : A modern SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card

Posted on 2018-09-29, 19:07

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awgamer wrote: Looks like there's room for a second opl2 to sit behind the first to do sbpro/pas. How would that work out? I thought those would use an OPL3?

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