Re: Descent music on Audiotrix Pro sound sometimes odd

Posted on 2021-09-16, 10:26

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It's this dump, according to the metadata these were dumped with HMP2MID.EXE. The utility itself can be found here , I'm also attaching it to this post. There is another utility called HMI2MID.EXE , but I haven't tried it. Someone even made a Rust Library . I'm pretty sure these are the same files …

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Re: Descent music on Audiotrix Pro sound sometimes odd

Posted on 2021-09-16, 06:38

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Maybe the game sets up some customizations for those specific songs. Is there a way to check it? I'm not a MIDI expert, but can you somehow "dump" MIDI messages on another PC? Not, that it would help much, because I don't have the Audiotrix MIDI cable, which apparently is custom and not compatible …

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Descent music on Audiotrix Pro sound sometimes odd

Posted on 2021-09-15, 22:00

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by GL1zdA

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I'm trying to understand why Descent MIDIs sound different on an Audiotrix Pro, depending on how they are played. For testing, I've chosen 4 popular songs from Descent: title screen music, briefing music, level 1 and level 12 music. They sound different depending on how I play them: 1) In game music …

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2021-09-02, 06:43

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Some quick and dirty benchmarks if you are still interested. Unfortunately the FX series card I had was only a 5600, not the Ultra as I had originally thought. Thanks for these benchmarks. They made me look at the theoretical performance of these chips and it confirms the benchmarks. The core …

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Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2021-08-02, 12:00

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by GL1zdA

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I don't think it was mentioned here: https://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/archive/octek/ … DCA2/index.html - MR BIOS for the Octek DCA2 motherboard.

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Re: Windows 95 "Single DOS Application Mode" adds always SET BLASTER

Posted on 2021-06-28, 21:18

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These options in the registry are what appears in the box when you click "Configuration" in the "Advanced Program Settings". As for my original post, I found out, that Windows will update the PIF files with environmental variables when you leave the single application mode. That was the reason the …

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AudioTrix Pro on Windows 98 resources conflicts

Posted on 2021-06-23, 06:51

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by GL1zdA

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I've recently installed a AudioTrix Pro board into a Windows 98 SE PC and I'm experiencing weird issues related to resource conflicts. The PC is nothing atypical: ASUS P2B motherboard (440BX) Pentium II 266 MHz 128 MB SD-RAM STB Velocity 100 3COM 3C905C-TX-M PCI network card After installing the …

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Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2021-05-27, 13:09

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Were there any MR-BIOS releases for motherboards newer than Socket 7? Or did it just end with Intel Triton boards? Did they support any other chipsets for the Pentium? I can see ony OPTi chipset, but nothing else.

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Windows 95 "Single DOS Application Mode" adds always SET BLASTER

Posted on 2021-05-15, 23:30

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by GL1zdA

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Can anyone explain to me, why Windows 95 always adds the SET BLASTER value to the MS-DOS mode configuration in .PIF files, even if I don't specify it? I know Creative drivers will add SET BLASTER to AUTOEXEC.BAT automatically, but I'm curious what adds it to the ".PIF" files. Basically whenever I …

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Are there any SB-MIDI compatible games?

Posted on 2021-04-26, 21:12

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I've recently read about the SB-MIDI mode of the Sound Blasters, and I'm curious, whether there were games that made use of it? I know one would have to sacrifice digital sound when using it, but maybe there were games that still used it?

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Re: Sam and Max Hanging Notes SC-55

Posted on 2020-12-10, 08:01

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blougaville wrote on 2020-12-08, 02:04: I finally gave up but luckily was able to get one of the "hardmpu" ISA cards so I now have intelligent mode MIDI to my SC-55. Haven't heard a hanging note since I switched to that setup. I know this is a possibility, I was hoping for a "software" solution …

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Re: Futuremark legacy benchmarks!

Posted on 2020-11-27, 07:45

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Still works for me: https://benchmarks.ul.com/legacy-benchmarks

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-25, 11:06

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Avid built complete system for video production. I guess it comes from one of these. Also it's cleary made by Creative Labs (even the typography seems familiar). Yeah, I would expect it in one of their turnkey systems, but for what reason? The quality is definitely not for broadcast/production …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-25, 08:27

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Todays find - SB 2.0 combined with IDE and floppy controller. Pretty rare card i guess? Unfortunately it has no sockets for CMS chips :( Nice find. I'm wondering where Avid used these cards. This one doesn't look like cards for video production, what Avid normally does. Avid built complete system …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-24, 12:09

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psychofox wrote on 2020-11-24, 11:54: Todays find - SB 2.0 combined with IDE and floppy controller. Pretty rare card i guess? Unfortunately it has no sockets for CMS chips 🙁 Nice find. I'm wondering where Avid used these cards. This one doesn't look like cards for video production, what Avid …

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Re: PVI-486SP3 1.22 Post Error

Posted on 2020-11-21, 22:13

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by GL1zdA

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Have you tried using a 5V CPU? The VRM fails often on these boards, they won't work with 3.3V CPUs then.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-19, 21:34

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Not really anything special and condition of some cards is so-so but will come in handy for building some rigs for sale... I'm mostly interested in the MiroMedia Surround card - addon DSP for regular sound cards. It implements Dolby Surround for 2 or 2+1 speaker setup so I hope for it being a bit …

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Re: Sam and Max Hanging Notes SC-55

Posted on 2020-11-14, 11:51

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by GL1zdA

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Was this issue ever solved? I just hit it with Dark Forces, tried the Dehacker patch which apparently has some fixes for MIDI, but it doesn't change anything. Hanging notes appear just after the intro or at the very beginning of the first level, basically making the game unplayable. I'm using an SC- …

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Re: IBM 486BL - What boards was it used on?

Posted on 2020-11-03, 06:50

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by GL1zdA

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Nice find. Do you have another Socket 3 board to test, whether it needs exactly this motherboard?

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Re: Your opinion on buying my first "Retro" PC

Posted on 2020-10-08, 09:19

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by GL1zdA

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It's a nice setup to start retro gaming without spending a lot of cash. 2 MB graphics is enough to play games at 800x600 in hi-color with double buffering, so I wouldn't worry about that much. Knowing the graphics chip would be more important, since various chips have compatibility issues with some …

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