Re: How to Use ISA Midi Cards Remotely

Posted on 2006-06-30, 16:29

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by aleksej

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Great Hierophant, tell more please about IBM Music Feature Card? What is it? How useful it can be in dos games? I bought this card brand new in box on ebay 2 years ago - just for collection purposes. i'm not use it - she sitting in his box :) I found some info about this card - this is FM module? …

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Re: SCD-15 (SCB-55) is on it's way... now whats the best sound card to host it on (for a gamer)?

Posted on 2006-06-30, 05:33

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by aleksej

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Testing workable this card or not is much easier in plain dos. Look for "Default MIDI device" in Multimedia. p.s. Congratilatons! This is superb package and condition. I bought the same but with Roland MPU-401/AT interface card a three weeks ago.

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Re: Searching pc-speaker emulator....

Posted on 2006-06-28, 04:06

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by aleksej

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I'm using no so fast rig with 98 + real dos. I'm not using dosbox.

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Searching pc-speaker emulator....

Posted on 2006-06-27, 19:19

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by aleksej

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I'm searching for program, that allows playing pc-speaker tones on sound blaster & clones without using mb-to-sb dongle. I saw this util a few years ago but now can't find :sad: Help please. p.s. Want to have volume & bass control in "pc-speaker only" titles (80s CGA era - digger, goody, saboteur, …

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Re: Hard to Find...

Posted on 2006-06-08, 18:56

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by aleksej

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My quest for the holy graal is the piece of software. Very hard to find now. I'm looking for a Microid Research Bios for my ASUS P55T2P4 rev3.10 (winbond multi io). I'm already have 3.41 version and still loking for latest possible - v3.46 with important bugfixes.

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D - General Midi Problem.

Posted on 2006-06-02, 07:06

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by aleksej

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Mike, i already trying with some external modules. This is not sound hardware problem, this is game code problem i think.

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Re: My oldskool gaming Peecee...

Posted on 2006-06-01, 18:13

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by aleksej

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Actually my CPU really "underclocked" to 500mhz instead 550mhz 😀 I hope someday somebody open a hidden x7 or x8 ratio in AMD K6-x CPU's. i just dream 😀

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D - General Midi Problem.

Posted on 2006-05-30, 12:53

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by aleksej

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i don't know how it works in SHAREWARE - but i trying with clean install from original CD 1.3d version. With game code everything ok.

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D - General Midi Problem.

Posted on 2006-05-30, 11:24

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by aleksej

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Yes i use that machine and of course i'm also playing with bios settigns and variable boot sequences. I'm think, maybe build engine has FX caching feature like in Eradicator, but this feature just not described? Probably my awe-32 has 28mb onboard memory. Anyway Blood game use same build engine but …

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D - General Midi Problem.

Posted on 2006-05-30, 10:32

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by aleksej

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Of course it is CPU utilization related problem but this is disappear when i use any midi device except general midi. Very strange.

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D - General Midi Problem.

Posted on 2006-05-30, 09:54

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by aleksej

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In general i'm using Windows 98 as multitasking environment for dos applications.

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D - General Midi Problem.

Posted on 2006-05-30, 07:38

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by aleksej

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My reason is not to run out of that problem but try to solve it 😉 Anyway that dn3d source port is win32 applications.

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D - General Midi Problem.

Posted on 2006-05-30, 05:45

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by aleksej

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No, only in the game. I fogot to say. It is jerky playing both midi (through GM) and fx sound. Especially in intro screen and in beginning of E1M01 and E2M01 With EMU8k or FM playback everything ok. p.s. I found this bug. It is appears when FX set to big frequency. In Example: 8000khz - all ok …

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Duke Nukem 3D - General Midi Problem.

Posted on 2006-05-29, 08:50

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by aleksej

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I have trouble in Duke Nukem 3D with ingame midi playback through any General Midi device. Midi playback is a little jerky. I try with many cards, game versions and environments. Sound Blaster 16 AWE-32 (many revisions) AWE-64 Daughterboards and external modules: SCD15, DB50XG, Waveblaster I/II, MU- …

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Re: AWE-32 + Daughterboard = randomly corrupted midi.

Posted on 2006-05-27, 05:59

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by aleksej

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Tomorrow i got another CT3990 and CT3900 non pnp and test both cards. Well, new CT3990 have corrupted midi playback bug too like CT3990 that i have already. Maybe it is a revision bug. CT3900 work perfectly. Midi playback is solid, without any glitches and sample loops. Like a CT3980. Unfortunatelly …

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Re: AWE-32 + Daughterboard = randomly corrupted midi.

Posted on 2006-05-17, 07:29

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by aleksej

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For real (not emulated by emu8000) general midi this tool not required ofcourse, but i load aweutil anytime for other purposes. I prefer emu8000 synthesis in few titles, Blood in example.) p.s. Offtop. In comparision with other music standarts i explain my vision of games midi music like that: FM …

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Re: Yamaha SW60XG - is it being used?

Posted on 2006-05-14, 15:37

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by aleksej

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If you route the AWE64 output through the SW60XG (this seems to be a very nice feature of that card, btw), playing around with the AWE64 mixer settings would perhaps help a bit - specifically the "output gain" setting comes into mind here... Unfortunatelly SW60XG signal-to-nose ratio is incredible …

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Re: AWE-32 + Daughterboard = randomly corrupted midi.

Posted on 2006-05-08, 06:29

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by aleksej

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Yeah, I know this one (also from AWE64 cards). Either the FM doesn't work at all or it sounds really strange (like chorus/reverb settings gone havoc). Can't imagine why this happens, but resetting the EMU seems to fix it. Do you know how resetting EMU8000 under windows for this purpose? AWEUTIL …

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Re: AWE-32 + Daughterboard = randomly corrupted midi.

Posted on 2006-05-06, 04:41

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by aleksej

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Yeah, I know this one (also from AWE64 cards). In my AWE-64 that bug is not present. Maybe because AWE-64 series has never 4.16 DSP except 4.13 in AWE-32 series? This could be a bug in the mixerset software. Do you have the newest version from the Creative website? I have incorrectly explained... …

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Re: AWE-32 + Daughterboard = randomly corrupted midi.

Posted on 2006-05-05, 20:23

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by aleksej

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Well... AWE-32 PnP CT3980 works absolutly correct and playing these problem midis excellent!!! Like my SB16 and AWE-64. Anyway this revision has two minor bugs. 1. bug that present in any AWE-32 that have Advanced Signal Processor (CT1748). FM music not playing until card not reinitialised (aweutil …

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