Re: Space Quest III on CT-460

Posted on 2016-09-22, 15:59

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Jo22 wrote: New recordings Always grateful for recordings, but whoever thought that converting to the Casio was a good idea should have been disciplined. The instruments sound rather tinny for the most part and the compositions scream of cheap kiddy synthesizer demo tunes.

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D stuttering with Dreamblaster X1

Posted on 2016-09-13, 02:07

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This is what I have: http://imgur.com/a/ny9fR It has a CT1745-S with DSP v4.11 1745-S ? it is a third variant I am not aware of, don't know if it is quiet or not. Can you please post and image your mixer settings? I have tested and found that AGC and MIC are the primary cause for noise, without …

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Re: Innovation SSI 2001 re-engineering and/or conclusions

Posted on 2016-09-07, 23:10

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by Great Hierophant

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The U6 music sounds like it's missing a LOT of notes? It is, the U6 music was composed for Adlib, which has 9 channels or 6 channels with 5 percussion instruments. A SID only has 3 (official) channels, and the music was not really redone, so it will sound like something is missing. The SwinSID Nano …

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Re: Nerdly Pleasures - My Vintage Computer/Gaming Blog

Posted on 2016-09-07, 05:22

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Many months, many more PC-related articles published, and more to come : Memories of Ultima Online http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2016/07/memories-of-ultima-online.html A rather bittersweet reminiscence of my personal experiences with MMORPGs. DRAM Addressing Capacity http://nerdlypleasures. …

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Re: Got some 8088 stuff today: now what?

Posted on 2016-09-03, 17:25

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Q. One XT motherboard with an AMD processor and an Intel coprocessor (why?). Can someone identify this board? It looks like a clone board since I don't see IBM anywhere on it, but some of the chips are labeled IBM, so I don't know. It also appears to have all 256K of RAM :) A. That is an IBM PC/XT …

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Re: Jill of the Jungle Sound Effects

Posted on 2016-08-29, 16:12

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Does one of you guys have a resource for the differences between the versions of Jill? I have an issue on my 386 PC where Jill 1 does /something/ to the SCSI controller, resulting in the game hanging and eventually "Not ready reading drive C", though Jill 2 and 3 are OK. How do you check what …

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Re: Is a CRT worth the trouble of a better picture?

Posted on 2016-08-20, 16:32

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by Great Hierophant

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CRTs don't have motion blur Phosphor persistence is a thing. Indeed... I tried to do a smooth scroller on Hercules... This is what my 5151 made of it: https://youtu.be/YphXvVRoifw Granted, colour CRTs tend to have phosphor with much lower persistence than mono screens, but the effect is still there …

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Re: Trying to add Amstrad PC1512 special video mode.

Posted on 2016-08-06, 01:12

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I had very little luck in finding Amstrad video supporting games : http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2016/04/t … ble-pc-for.html

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Re: My new project: IBM 5155

Posted on 2016-08-05, 02:44

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by Great Hierophant

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Fortunately it is really easy to upgrade a 5155 or 5160 to 640KB of RAM : http://minuszerodegrees.net/5160/motherboard/ … ard_to_640k.pdf

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Re: My new project: IBM 5155

Posted on 2016-08-04, 15:44

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An Adlib card can be used with many games on the PC/XT, but most will run unplayably slow. While the Adlib card was released in 1987, games did not make use of it until September 1988. The IBM 5170 was released in 1984, and all IBM PCs, the PC, XT, AT, & XT/286 were discontinued in April of 1987.

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Re: Roland SC-55ST. MT-32 emulation?

Posted on 2016-08-04, 03:59

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by Great Hierophant

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AFAIR the ST variant being a cut-down version offers no MT-32 emulation at all The SC-55ST can emulate an MT-32 as well as an SC-55 or SC-55mkII. The synthesis unit in the SC-55ST is identical to that in the SC-55mkII and SCB-55, they skimped on the panel and connectors on the ST. It is the SC-50 …

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Re: Is anyone else running a celeron mendocino

Posted on 2016-08-01, 04:28

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by Great Hierophant

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I know that many of us used to run a Celeron of that vintage. I ran a 300A at 450MHz for several years without an issue. Amazing CPU value for the time, it would rarely come again.

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Re: Lost my colors on my CGA composite output

Posted on 2016-08-01, 04:25

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by Great Hierophant

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From my experience the trimmer cap changes between 'stable color', 'unstable color' and 'no color at all'. In the 'stable color' which is like 1/3 of the trimmers range there is no hue/tint change. Trimming is not really critical. But of course you can mark the original position. That is my …

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Re: Old ps1 ibm audio/joystick card on "new" pc

Posted on 2016-07-30, 22:31

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by Great Hierophant

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This should answer your questions : http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2015/10/t … sound-chip.html

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Re: Sound Blaster Prototype on eBay

Posted on 2016-07-29, 23:21

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The MCU is beneath the tape. I believe the ROM is protected - it just came up FF like every other protected ROM/GAL I've tried to read. The MCU identify the part number under that tape? I am curious to know if CL was always using the same part number and made improvements elsewhere or were using …

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Re: Sound Blaster Prototype on eBay

Posted on 2016-07-29, 18:41

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The MCU is beneath the tape. I believe the ROM is protected - it just came up FF like every other protected ROM/GAL I've tried to read. The MCU identify the part number under that tape? I am curious to know if CL was always using the same part number and made improvements elsewhere or were using …

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Re: Jill of the Jungle Sound Effects

Posted on 2016-07-29, 18:04

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I found version 1.2(d) and will try it in my pride and joy to see whether Epic managed to solve the problem. Where did you find 1.2(d)? I've been looking for a copy. I have two copies of Jill of the Jungle Trilogy. One only contains 1.2(c) executables, the other contains both the 1.2(c) and 1.2(d) …

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Re: VLC 2.2.1 not playing DosBox Capture Codec videos

Posted on 2016-07-20, 15:53

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by Great Hierophant

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It turns out that VLC does not like the decoded format for native DOSBox recorded video. DOSBox uses "Palettized RGB with palette element R:G:B." What I have done was to run the video through VirtualDub, use the ZMBV codec at 32-bit color depth and do whatever else I want to it. If the decoded …

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Re: Creative CT1300 still DEAD

Posted on 2016-07-18, 04:16

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by Great Hierophant

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Does it lockup when you try games? You don't have an Adlib driver like ADLIB.COM or SBFMDRV.COM loaded as well by any chance? Any driver that assigns itself to INT 80H might cause a crash.

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Re: The problem with modern displays = Motion Blur

Posted on 2016-07-16, 16:42

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by Great Hierophant

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ooo... that's a 5151 right? Yes, it is. (haha, just realized who this was... if you're the same Great Hierophant from VCF, you know I have a 5153 on an EGA card already. :D) A worthy combination to be sure. It is interesting to think that the interface and data these old screens used was actually …

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