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Re: Sound Card Recordings

I discovered that AWE32 can indeed play General MIDI mode in protected mode games if you are in Windows 9x! That means soundfonts no problem. This is not really a new fact ;-). It was always the way to go to get an AWE32 General Midi compatible (through Emulation) for DOS Games, since using AWEUtil …

Re: QUARTERDECK QEMM products ... Good? or Garbage?

in Milliways
I use QEMM386 9.0 for alot of the old rigs. UMBPCI requires a compatible PCI-chipset and thats no option on boards without PCI. From my experience QEMM is more compatible with certain other programs as the Ultrasounds MegaEM in DOS 7. (it doesn't work with EMM386). On the other hand using of QEMM …

Re: FPM RAM upgrade

The point with the HX is, that you need 8 SIMM Slots for 512 MB. (with the 64 MB SIMMs) The well known ASUS board has 4 and the GA586DX too. So you will have 256 MB max. The GA586HX has 6 -> 384 MB The Tyan Dual Board has 8 but (at least my) seems to be very sticky for memory modules between second …

Re: Old School Color Cycling with HTML5

in Milliways
This looks very nice. Still, this reminds me, how slow todays routines are in Javascript. These are things that have worked very well on much slower hardware. Even if you don't do real colorcycling but repaint the relevant pixels, as the javascript does. Well, let's play Ladders in Windows …

Re: "Look at you, Hacker..."

in Milliways
Well I haven't checked for a while, but as easy option: Exchange the DirectX Soundfont gm.dls in the system32/drivers directory with some better suited one. For example airfont 340. Then choose Microsoft SW Synth. It is this way still better than most Software Synths of integrated sound solutions.

Re: "Look at you, Hacker..."

in Milliways
Yeah... this is because the system I'm doing this all on has an onboard audio chipset and its MIDI wavetable is awful. Have you considered installing Roland Virtual Sound Canvas? This is quite a good choice for modern Windows Systems if you can't plug the real hardware.

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