Re: DOS games with native DB50XG/SW60XG support

Posted on 2024-06-12, 15:27

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by fillosaurus

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Yeah the setting are working, but not the game. I dont have luck with these early Win95 games. Have you applied patch 1.02 after installing FF7? Also, the game doesn't like it if the system has more than 512 MB RAM, even after applying R. Loew's PATCHMEM. I had to manually limit the available RAM …

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Re: Need help with a rare ESS1868 based card

Posted on 2024-04-12, 15:37

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by fillosaurus

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stanwebber wrote on 2024-04-12, 05:50: i have a couple cards with the samsung wavetable chip. it's always connected directly to port 330. i'm thinking something is muted in the mixer. is the wavetable detected under windows as a roland mpu-401 device? Yes, but even in Windows is silent.

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Re: Need help with a rare ESS1868 based card

Posted on 2024-04-11, 22:19

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by fillosaurus

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Can you not just point a dos game expecting GM via port 330 to it? Unisound can initialise ess1868 cards by setting the Blaster variable: Set blaster=a220 i7 D1 T4 p330 Unisound /cX Where X is the id of the pnp ISA card in your system The card should be totally software configurable, so adjust the …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-04-11, 20:42

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by fillosaurus

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Wrangled with some ISA soundcards today. To be more specific, Yamaha SW20-PC, Reveal SoundFX SC400 Pro 16, Samsung Audio Magic X and an OEM HP Aztech 2320. And somehow I revived 2 graphic cards, a no name S3 Trio 3D/2X AGP and a Matrox G200 PCI.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-04-11, 20:32

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by fillosaurus

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Reminds me of a friend back in the late 90's. He ripped all his CDs at 128Kbps (took 1 night for 1 CD) and then he sold all his CDs. Only a few years later hard drive space was a lot cheaper and he was annoyed that he didn't ripped at a much higher bitrate... :) Ouch, for me it's the 3rd time: I …

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Re: Need help with a rare ESS1868 based card

Posted on 2024-04-11, 20:02

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by fillosaurus

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Can you not just point a dos game expecting GM via port 330 to it? Unisound can initialise ess1868 cards by setting the Blaster variable: Set blaster=a220 i7 D1 T4 p330 Unisound /cX Where X is the id of the pnp ISA card in your system The card should be totally software configurable, so adjust the …

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Re: Need help with a rare ESS1868 based card

Posted on 2024-04-11, 19:55

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by fillosaurus

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Y1 seems to be at an odd angle. Is not my card, just a generic picture I found on the net. C5 is also missing, which is not the case with my card, is in much better shape, no odd angled xtals, no missing capacitors, no scratches, and NO GM, no matter if I set MIDI port to 300 or 330, no matter if I …

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Need help with a rare ESS1868 based card

Posted on 2024-04-11, 18:30

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by fillosaurus

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This is the one in question. It obviously has a Samsung KS0164+KS0174-1M wavetable, but damn me if I could find a way to activate it. Not even my google-fu skills are a match for this Korean ninja... Samsung Audio Magic X aka SAB-3000A. Conforming to usual Samsung quality, is one of the quietest ISA …

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Re: USB/PS/2 mouse not working on Windows 98

Posted on 2024-04-10, 08:03

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by fillosaurus

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There are a few older topics about ps/2 mice: what are your favourite ps/2 mice? Mouse Serial VS Mouse PS/2 Modern gaming mouse capable of PS/2? One mouse that's mentioned is the Logitech SBF96, which has a ps/2 connector and is optical. I kinda want something a little bigger though. Interestingly, …

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Re: USB/PS/2 mouse not working on Windows 98

Posted on 2024-04-10, 07:37

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by fillosaurus

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I use an A4Tech WOP-49 mouse which is USB-PS/2 compatible. Works perfectly in USB or PS/2 mode (with his original USB-PS/2 adapter and several other adapters I have around). Bought it new in the box many years ago, it was my first optical mouse and it still soldiers on.

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Re: DOS games with native DB50XG/SW60XG support

Posted on 2024-04-04, 05:22

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by fillosaurus

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Yeah the setting are working, but not the game. I dont have luck with these early Win95 games. Have you applied patch 1.02 after installing FF7? Also, the game doesn't like it if the system has more than 512 MB RAM, even after applying R. Loew's PATCHMEM. I had to manually limit the available RAM …

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Re: Y2K builds

Posted on 2024-04-04, 03:18

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by fillosaurus

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I switched to Intel and did some work with 2 BX based boards; some of the best. Abit BH6 and ASUS P2B. On Abit none of my slotket adapters work, so the fastest CPU which works on it is a slot 1 Pentium III Coppermine 600E. On P2B my slotket Soltek (say that fast 3 times) works perfectly, put on a P …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-02, 21:16

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by fillosaurus

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supercordo wrote on 2024-04-01, 21:48: Just bought my first video card from Quantum3D!! Sellers picture. I have the AGP version.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-02, 21:15

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by fillosaurus

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supercordo wrote on 2024-04-01, 21:48: Just bought my first video card from Quantum3D!! Sellers picture. I have the AGP version.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-02, 21:15

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by fillosaurus

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supercordo wrote on 2024-04-01, 21:48: Just bought my first video card from Quantum3D!! Sellers picture. I have the AGP version.

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Re: Y2K build

Posted on 2024-03-30, 09:40

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by fillosaurus

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Good configuration! :-) This era is beautiful. I also built on K7M for SlotA. A forgotten piece, it traveled through time on a wholesaler's shelf and came to me newly. k7m.jpg Asus K7M motherboard Athlon 800MHz Pluto CPU 1x256MB+2x128MB SDRAM 133MHz CL3@100MHz CL2 Radeon 9800 video card SB Live …

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2024-03-30, 09:20

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by fillosaurus

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I've been testing the on-board CMI8330 of my PC Chips M571 motherboard and I noticed something unusual. It seems that this particular (integrated) version of the card has no filter for digital audio. Not the SBPro style low-pass filter, nor the SB16 style brick-wall filter. Just nothing. If I were …

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Re: DOS games with native DB50XG/SW60XG support

Posted on 2024-03-30, 08:45

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by fillosaurus

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The sound configuration utility for Albion, which uses the Miles sound system, has a discrete option for choosing the DB50 for music: albionxg.png I don't know if this is actual XG music, or 'just' GM mapped to the DB50/DB60/XR385, as my XR385 board is currently packed away. I can't remember ever …

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Re: DOS games with native DB50XG/SW60XG support

Posted on 2024-03-30, 08:32

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by fillosaurus

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There was no DOS support for XG MIDI in games, as XG MIDI was tied to Windows and Mac OS, because the few XG-capable cards did not have onboard memory for sample storage and loaded the XG sample bank into system RAM when used with Windows/Mac OS and some of those cards were later bundled with …

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Re: DOS games with native DB50XG/SW60XG support

Posted on 2024-03-30, 07:38

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by fillosaurus

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midicollector wrote on 2024-03-29, 16:59: Not dos, but FF7 has actual unique support for XG that is genuine XG use/support. FF VIII too. Played them both with an AOpen Yamaha 754 PCI soundcard.

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