Re: Idea: Integrating Sound Blaster emulation in a DOS extender?

Posted on 2020-05-13, 22:07

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So the problem with most purely software-based Sound Blaster emulation solutions is that they only work with real-mode games, since it requires trapping I/O port access. Which ones are you thinking of, specifically? Basically the same ones that Jo22 mentioned earlier: Something like this already …

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Re: Idea: Integrating Sound Blaster emulation in a DOS extender?

Posted on 2020-05-13, 21:51

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By the way, what is the license of the Mpxplay source code, anyway? According to Wikipedia , it's GPL. According to the author, it's "opensource", without elaborating . According to the Mpxplay project page on Sourceforge , it's "other". And the ZIP file containing the source code doesn't contain …

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Re: Idea: Integrating Sound Blaster emulation in a DOS extender?

Posted on 2020-05-13, 21:23

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So this is the closest I've heard: There's been a version of HX Extender with Win32 support and AC97 sound support in DOS. People have loaded it, then run modified versions of DosBox in DOS. Unfortunately you still take the massive DosBox performance hit (because everything is being emulated) but …

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A PCI sound card with an Analog Devices AD1845JP Soundport (ISA) chip?

Posted on 2020-05-13, 20:47

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Okay, so the AIL3 Miles protected mode driver pack (shared in this old thread post ), as used in many protected mode DOS games, includes the driver files NVDIG.DIG and NVMPU.MDI, which are respectively the digital audio and MIDI drivers for NVIDA NV1 audio/video cards, such as the Diamond Edge 3D. ( …

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Re: Dos support, SB live vs audigy

Posted on 2020-05-13, 19:35

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You sure? I'm pretty sure the "non live" cards like the PCI64 and 128 emulated SBPro and Live bumped this upto SB16. As for the SBLive, you don't get SB16 emulation with WDM drivers, only SBPro. You need VxD drivers for SB16 emulation. Just to be clear, that is in DOS , when running under Windows . …

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Re: Sony ending downloads for anything prior to Windows 7

Posted on 2020-05-13, 19:10

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why are they removing FTP support? what has it been replaced with? FTP is a pretty shitty protocol imho. It's hard to implement this in a secure way because of all the port shenanigans and as soon as you run an FTP server you will get hammered with requests from idiots trying to get in and take …

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Re: Sony ending downloads for anything prior to Windows 7

Posted on 2020-05-13, 17:36

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why are they removing FTP support? what has it been replaced with? FTP is a pretty shitty protocol imho. It's hard to implement this in a secure way because of all the port shenanigans and as soon as you run an FTP server you will get hammered with requests from idiots trying to get in and take …

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Re: Using VIA VT8231 South Bridge for sound blaster pro emulation

Posted on 2020-05-13, 17:10

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Hi ! Have you seen my post ? I did test but the S220 i own uses a VT8233, its not compatible with the sb pro emulation. The S300 should have the same problem : https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/Futro/s300/ 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio …

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Re: USB 1.0 (1996) vs. USB 1.1 (1998)

Posted on 2020-05-13, 12:15

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Actually, there are several revisions of the PCI bus. And if I remember correctly, USB 2.0 cards wouldn't work in some older pre-MMX Pentium and 486 systems for that reason. Which is a shame, since those would be exactly the generation of PCs in which such an upgrade would be useful. NEC USB 2.0 …

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Re: Arabic theme games?

Posted on 2020-05-12, 21:58

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Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire would definitely fit in this category. 🙂 QFG 2 and 3 are more Persian. QfG2 had mythological creatures such as Jinn, which are definitely something out of Arabian folklore. It may have had some Persian influences as well, but it definitely had an Arabic theme. …

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Re: Sony ending downloads for anything prior to Windows 7

Posted on 2020-05-12, 21:43

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Sounds like there is a widespread driverpocalypse in motion. Darn Google, man. My guess is their recent decision to remove FTP support from Chrome inspired all these manufacturers to do some spring cleaning. 🙁 And get this: they recently restored it due to the COVID-19 crisis , which is basically …

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Re: Arabic theme games?

Posted on 2020-05-12, 19:16

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Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire would definitely fit in this category. 🙂

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Re: Volo's Gampad to PS/2 Adapter. Device discussion (Do you need this thing?)

Posted on 2020-05-12, 19:07

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Amazing project! Should you be considering an improved future version, may I suggest the possibility to hook the adapter up to both the PS/2 port and the DA-15 game port on the PC side? The idea behind that is the possibility to also support newer game controllers with analog thumb sticks, such as …

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Re: Winevdm

Posted on 2020-05-12, 18:41

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Cool project. So since winevdm uses software CPU emulation to run the 16-code, this should in theory also be able to work on Windows 10 for ARM, right? I wonder if the source code already compiles for that platform out of the box. Time to open an issue for that on the GitHub page, I guess. Even …

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Idea: Integrating Sound Blaster emulation in a DOS extender?

Posted on 2020-05-12, 18:21

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So the problem with most purely software-based Sound Blaster emulation solutions is that they only work with real-mode games, since it requires trapping I/O port access. Since DOS extenders (as far as I have understood it at least) run in a more privileged mode than real mode software, such …

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Re: List of known Thin Clients with SoundBlaster Pro support for cheap MS-DOS gaming !

Posted on 2020-05-12, 18:06

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Sound Blaster FM emulation The TSR can now also intercept the Sound Blaster FM ports in addition to the standard Adlib ports. It won't however fake enough of a Sound Blaster to pass installation checks (that might happen in a future releast), so for now this is mostly useful if you already have a …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules games

Posted on 2020-05-12, 17:49

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It's a classic really. :) Watched it first time about ten years ago, when YT still used Flash Video.. Come to think of it, I may actually have happened upon that video through a link shared by someone at Vogons at the time. Perhaps that was you. 😅 Yes, that video is dope. Really wish it was in …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules games

Posted on 2020-05-12, 17:27

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I remember playing artic-fox on cga on my euro-pc. Today I think hercules is the better gaming-gfx on xt. I second that. The limited color palettes of CGA in graphics mode just looked so bland and depressing. Back in primary school in the '80s, I remembered visiting a classmate and seeing the older …

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Re: List of known Thin Clients with SoundBlaster Pro support for cheap MS-DOS gaming !

Posted on 2020-05-12, 17:02

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These chips play digital-music in games like SFX, MOD-Files, etc., but no FM music, or am I wrong here. You're wrong ;) They play FM while loading the special TSR made by VIA, VIAFMTSR.COM ! FM is emulated, its not perfect, but its nice and far more okay than nothing ;) Please have a look to this …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules games

Posted on 2020-05-10, 11:13

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This thread made me think about this old YouTube video of Flight Simulator 4.0 running on a 700 MHz Pentium III machine with a Hercules Graphics Card clone, connected to an IBM 5151 monochrome monitor. It runs incredibly fluently, with the monitor hardly able to keep up, due to the phosphor-induced …

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