Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-22, 14:33

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by crazii

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought an AOpen AW200 PCI sound card from Japan, with instruction book, driver CD and case. I've searched through the forum and found that it has soundblaster pro support, so I bought it. Filename DSC_0332.JPG File size 1.39 MiB Views 1616 views Filename DSC_0333.JPG File size 1004.03 KiB Views …

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Re: VIASBCFG - VIA SBPro configuration tool for VIA VT8231 & VT82C686/A/B chipsets (v0.10a)

Posted on 2022-11-13, 08:02

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by crazii

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in Marvin \ Sound

Just tried on my NEC Versa C140 laptop (which has been stuck on a pile for ages because it's not the most amazing spec, but this would make it somewhat useful), and it initialised okay (VT8231), plus the FM Emulation loaded, but I couldn't get any sound output sadly. Anything I can do to help …

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Re: DOS driver for RetroWave OPL3

Posted on 2022-11-07, 01:50

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by crazii

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in Marvin \ Sound

TOMMY_THE_DOG wrote on 2022-10-31, 17:21: Someone please tell me how to get this working in DOSBox-X. The Mac recognizes the OPL3 Retrowave Express in the system profiler on the USB bus. Hi, I checked the code from sudomaker, you can probably try the "ttyACM0" (without the quotes).

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Re: DOS driver for RetroWave OPL3

Posted on 2022-11-07, 01:47

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by crazii

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in Marvin \ Sound

sofakng wrote on 2022-11-06, 00:57: Thanks very much! I'll fool around with it and see what I can get working and submit a PR if I can fix anything 😀 Cool, looking forward to hearing good news 😁

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Re: PX Player: play MID and XMI files under DOS

Posted on 2022-11-06, 00:25

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by crazii

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I've quickly tested PX with Heroes of Jin Yong but found no misbehavior. The game's SAMPLE.AD and SAMPLE.OPL files are identical with PX's default FAT.AD and FAT.OPL; anyway, PX catches the needed .AD/.OPL files from XMI's folder even when I run it from another folder. No idea why did it gave you …

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Re: DOS driver for RetroWave OPL3

Posted on 2022-11-06, 00:24

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by crazii

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in Marvin \ Sound

sofakng wrote on 2022-10-08, 16:01: Ahh, OK... Can you provide the source code so I can maybe take a look and troubleshoot? Hi, I've uploaded my code to github: https://github.com/crazii/USBDDOS, feel free to modify, PRs are welcomed. 😁

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Re: VIASBCFG - VIA SBPro configuration tool for VIA VT8231 & VT82C686/A/B chipsets (v0.10a)

Posted on 2022-11-05, 03:58

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by crazii

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Just tried on my NEC Versa C140 laptop (which has been stuck on a pile for ages because it's not the most amazing spec, but this would make it somewhat useful), and it initialised okay (VT8231), plus the FM Emulation loaded, but I couldn't get any sound output sadly. Anything I can do to help …

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Re: VIASBCFG - VIA SBPro configuration tool for VIA VT8231 & VT82C686/A/B chipsets (v0.12d)

Posted on 2022-11-04, 15:38

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by crazii

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I got a NEC versa s260, laptop with VT82C686B south bridge. The VIASBCFG and VIAFMTSR runs ok but games have no sounds at all. Is there any extra setting to test it a little bit? Does the volume setting help? DSC_0321.JPG Edit Tried A240 and d0 and i5, no luck. When running skyroads, there's a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-04, 13:53

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by crazii

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought a NEC versa s260: Pentium 3 Tualatin 1.1GHz, VT82C686B which probably has SB emulation. Haven't tested it yet. Filename DSC_0320.JPG File size 825.53 KiB Views 1642 views EDIT The VIASBCFG and VIAFMTSR runs ok but games have no sound.

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Re: General MIDI hardware comparison recordings

Posted on 2022-11-02, 09:19

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by crazii

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in Milliways

The links above are dead. I don't think so. It is just that support for ftp:// was removed from browsers. The links are perfectly fine. It still works if I paste the URL into Internet Explorer on my Windows 10 machine . Yes, chrome dropped FTP support and that's what you have to do. Or a standalone …

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Re: PX: a versatile XMIDI player

Posted on 2022-11-02, 09:13

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in Release Announcements

I tried PX player in DOSBOX, it seems trying to find .AD/.OPL in current directory, even if I specified the abs path of the xmi, it doesn't find the 2 files in target dir. And the DrvDef.ini is not working I have to set it in command line. Is it related to Dosbox? Also it sound different form the …

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Re: DOS driver for RetroWave OPL3

Posted on 2022-11-02, 08:34

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by crazii

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Someone please tell me how to get this working in DOSBox-X. The Mac recognizes the OPL3 Retrowave Express in the system profiler on the USB bus. Have you checked the YouTube video I pasted? just watch carefully or you will miss it. The video is for Windows only and you need to change the com# port …

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Re: DOS driver for RetroWave OPL3

Posted on 2022-11-02, 08:26

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by crazii

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in Marvin \ Sound

OK - Thanks! I'm hoping that we can get this working and then develop alternate boards for YM2151, SN76496, etc. Yeah, it's almost working and I believe that it's probably a delay/timing issue during the reset/init routine as I encountered UHCI on a real hardware vs QEMU. I think we'll surely fix …

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Re: DOS driver for RetroWave OPL3

Posted on 2022-10-19, 03:05

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by crazii

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in Marvin \ Sound

Ahh, OK... Can you provide the source code so I can maybe take a look and troubleshoot? Hey I'd like to provide the code but my NUC is dead and I have it returned for factory repair. It might take a couple of weeks to get it back. I'm using phone now and other old laptops don't have network access …

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Re: DOS driver for RetroWave OPL3

Posted on 2022-10-07, 23:55

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by crazii

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in Marvin \ Sound

OK - No problem... Thanks for the information. However, I'm trying to use this on my weeCee x86 PC and when I plug the RetroWave into the PC, it causes the PC to reboot. After the reboot, if I attempt to run RWDDOS.EXE it throws an assertion error: https://i.imgur.com/Q6DQDmm.jpg After a few …

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Re: DOS driver for RetroWave OPL3

Posted on 2022-10-07, 15:37

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by crazii

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hey, thanks for this! I've been hoping that SudoMaker would release a DOS driver (and I asked them via e-mail but they said no). Do you think it would be possible to connect the device to a serial port or parallel port so the USB ports still work? Hi, I've no idea if any USB to parallel converter …

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Re: Compaq N600c: hangs on playing audio in DOS, music works

Posted on 2022-09-29, 14:10

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by crazii

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My last resort: I tried DOSBox, official build(current version 0.74-3 win32) as this thread indicates that it can run on win98: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=71772 it's running but even early dos games are a little bit slow, All you need is to change "cycles" option and then everything goes …

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Re: Compaq N600c: hangs on playing audio in DOS, music works

Posted on 2022-09-27, 12:35

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by crazii

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The VXD driver I used can be found here: https://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=88343, it doesn't need force install and will recognize the sound card directly. Before installation, Try to the following to resolve IRQ & DMA conflict: Disable ECP printer port (LPT1) in device manager. …

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DOS driver for RetroWave OPL3

Posted on 2022-09-25, 22:08

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by crazii

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

The RetroWave OPL3 board has a ymf262 chip with genuine OPL3. It's intended for DOSBOX-X on modern system, I bought one piece and tested it in DOSBOX-X then an idea pops to me: how about making it work in real dos, like OPL3LPT? I'm not a hardware guy so If anyone capable & interested in the …

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Re: DOS FM Music on Crystal SoundFusion CS4624 PCI

Posted on 2022-09-24, 20:09

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by crazii

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in Marvin \ Sound

I've done more tests with Miles Sound, the only perfectly working option is Adlib(OPL2), it sounds good. Adlib Gold is not recognized; generic OPL3/ SB Pro recognized but lots of notes weird or missing in an OPL3 game. My conclusion is that CS4624 only have good OPL2-like FM but bad OPL3.

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