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reelmagic support

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First post, by Pavel Jackoff

Posted on 2004-12-07, 17:12

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hi there,
you are doing a great work with dosbox... i love it!!!
i just have one small question. is it possible, that there will ever be emulation of reelmagic cards? there are some great games, namely the horde, which need this card deperately to show there glory to the full extend. i know/think, that it will be quite a lot of work to emulate it and it's most likely not on the top of the todo-list, but may it ever happen, or do have to search ebay for it and plug an original card into my old real dosbox?

thx for all the great work,
pavel

Reply 1 of 9, by oneirotekt

Posted on 2004-12-08, 16:52

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Wow, I'd never heard of this thing before.

http://www.imaa.de/www/mpe8419.htm

So it's basically an MPEG decoder card with sound card functionality?

Reply 2 of 9, by Harekiet

Posted on 2004-12-08, 17:05

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yeh think i have some big ass review of it in some 1992 magazine. Wonder how many games actually support it and if there's any kind of docs available on it 😀

Reply 3 of 9, by robertmo

Posted on 2004-12-08, 17:13

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Audio-Specification
- Synthesizer Yamaha OPL2 compliant

So if you choose oplmode=opl2 in dosbox.conf and accelerate dosbox a bit (more cycles) you should have the same result 😉

Reply 4 of 9, by Snover

Posted on 2004-12-09, 02:03

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Tex Murphy: Overseer supports it.
The important part is the MPEG decoding, not the synthesis that literally 0 programs used.

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 5 of 9, by robertmo

Posted on 2004-12-09, 06:15

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but a fast CPU will decode MPEG too, right? 😉

Reply 6 of 9, by oneirotekt

Posted on 2004-12-09, 17:47

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An incomplete listing of supported games from this page:

Dragon's Lair, Escape From Singe's Castle
The Horde
Lord of the Rings
Return to Zork
Space Ace
Demo of Flash Traffic(?)

So with supported games, what was different VS if you didn't have this hardware? Would you get fullscreen FMV playback rather than in a tiny window?

Reply 7 of 9, by Snover

Posted on 2004-12-10, 00:09

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@robertmo:
Yes, but these stupid games use specific calls for the decoders and don't support software.

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Reply 8 of 9, by Hammer

Posted on 2005-01-06, 17:36

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Other games that had Reelmagic versions were "Man Enough" and possibly "Police Quest 4". You can't get the standard versions of these games to run on Reelmagic. There was a special version of each game created with higher quality video that used the Reelmagic board.

Reply 9 of 9, by Snover

Posted on 2005-01-08, 02:13

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Police Quest 4? Nono, that was just another Sierra SCI game. No FMV there. 😀

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