Re: Dune "HERAD" Ad Lib Music Hacking

Posted on 2020-02-15, 22:28

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by carlostex

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psy_ wrote on 2020-01-12, 19:53: hi, in the cd version it is inside the big dat file dune.dat , i have a program that can extract it (DuneCDExtractor.exe) but i don't know how to compress the files again to the dat format Does the game crash if you remove the compressed .DAT and just use the …

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Re: AGD Interactive classic Sierra Adventure remakes running on DOS

Posted on 2020-02-13, 00:28

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by carlostex

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Well, i tried the HX Extenders, but no luck. Only way would be to recompile the games on AGS version 2.62, which was the last version to support DOS. A shame since King's Quest 3, Quest for Glory 2 and Space Quest 2 look amazing.

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Re: AGD Interactive classic Sierra Adventure remakes running on DOS

Posted on 2020-02-11, 12:53

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by carlostex

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Never heard of that thanks leilei. I guess i gotta try that!

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AGD Interactive classic Sierra Adventure remakes running on DOS

Posted on 2020-02-10, 22:19

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by carlostex

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Hi fellas, so recently i took interest into trying to run King's Quest 1 VGA remake on DOS. I knew from years ago that there was a VGA remake for DOS, but didn't care for years. I now decided to check it out. So basically, all AGS games that use AGS engine up to 2.62 can indeed run in DOS. So i …

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Re: Article about the history of Creative Labs / interview with its founder/CEO: The Sound Blaster Story

Posted on 2020-02-05, 10:56

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by carlostex

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Sort of interesting interview, but totally uncritical interviewer. AdLib is mentioned only in passing, the PAS (almost certainly the driver behind SBPro and SB16) not at all. Still, the 'our customers didn't give a shit about feature X so it wasn't a priority to us' rings depressingly true. Well …

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Re: Hearsay 1000 for IBM PC - a missing piece of PC sound history from mid-eighties

Posted on 2020-02-03, 16:09

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by carlostex

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Ah the missing piece! I had a slight discussion with Jim Leonard years ago about this card, regarding on what was its purpose. I imagined that so early in the IBM PC days this must have been a speech recognition card. From what i could understand from a quick Google search is that the General …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-01-22, 09:09

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by carlostex

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Woohoo, those look great!! Nice work Leo!

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-01-18, 21:36

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by carlostex

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Good sir, i'm in too!

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Re: I desperately need help choosing an ISA sound card.

Posted on 2020-01-13, 12:52

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by carlostex

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A YMF71x card is a no brainer. Even the dreaded Duke Nukem 2 ADPCM issue os really not relevant anymore since someone has uncompressed the Sound files, and the game now plays all the sounds fine with a YMF card. I'd really recommend if you go with a YMF option to support Tiido and order one of his …

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Re: Tandy 3 Voice Sound - SN76489 ISA Soundcard Project

Posted on 2020-01-13, 12:42

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by carlostex

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matze79 wrote on 2020-01-12, 20:11: Yeah the Experience of using 0C0 / 0E0 is really different, on some AT Systems its not even accessible, for example Intel Batman Chipset. Have you tested 0E0 on a 430TX chipset platform? Very curious about that. If not, 0B0 should be worth a try too if 0E0 does …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-01-11, 14:17

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by carlostex

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I tried on 286 and it froze too so I assumed the driver is using 386 instructions - which is not surprising considering the original release date of the CS4235/36/37 chips - never really tried it again on another system lower than a 386 tbh Will check it again on my V20 XT once I get it out of …

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Re: Fastest "Turbo XT"

Posted on 2020-01-03, 19:41

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by carlostex

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If anyone is still interested in this my Tandy 1000 SL is now running at 16Mhz with a NEC V30. Speed is extremely interesting, should be in line with well tuned 10Mhz 286 systems, performance wise.

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-01-03, 11:12

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by carlostex

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From what i could understand reading the PCB, it is possible to select which MPU (HardMPU or SB16 MPU) control either the DB-15 or waveblaster header. Is this the case or am i understanding it wrong? Great feature if that's the case.

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2019-12-24, 00:38

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by carlostex

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Looking forward for the final project.

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Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.

Posted on 2019-12-18, 21:47

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by carlostex

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Supposedly, Zen 3 (Vermeer) is moving away from CCX's and going with monolithic 8 core chiplets. That should help reduce cache latency significantly.

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Re: The comprehensive list of all modern reproductions of vintage sound cards

Posted on 2019-12-17, 18:04

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by carlostex

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There's one from Texelec, the SAAYM. 2 x SAA + YM2151. https://youtu.be/5V5KXoxNPow

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Re: Tandy 3 Voice Sound - SN76489 ISA Soundcard Project

Posted on 2019-12-14, 02:54

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by carlostex

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This is why i insisted pages back that the card should decode another 8 bit port, E0 being as far as i remember the best option for AT's and up. I'm happy it was implemented. Patching C0 to E0 is trivial, and should be in my opinion much better than using a TSR to redirect the writes. Are these …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2019-12-09, 20:13

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by carlostex

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Absolutely amazing design, congratulations to Marmes and Keropi. Best soundcard ever No onboard wavetable, no SB16, PAS16, GUS, Covox or AdLib Gold support. So room for improvement :P .Onboard Wavetable: would probably be possible to add and use the UART Crystal MPU, maybe a dreamblaster X2 …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2019-12-09, 18:46

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by carlostex

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Absolutely amazing design, congratulations to Marmes and Keropi. Best soundcard ever

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2019-11-11, 16:19

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by carlostex

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Today i can only regret not being a backer for this project, would love me an ARGUS. Those ISA expansion headers are very handy. Hope __shock is doing well.

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