Re: AMD Slot A 1999 Build

Posted on 2022-07-26, 06:57

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by digistorm

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sounds like my system from 1999 😉 I had a Matrox G400 at the time, but it is much happier with a GF2 card. You’d really want a card with hardware T&L because a classic Athlon does not have a ton of horse power. I noticed with more modern games that although it may achieve decent average FPS that it …

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Re: Mac ARM64 port emulation errors (in cpu?)

Posted on 2022-05-30, 17:38

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by digistorm

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

I see. I am not aware of an ARM64 build for macOS of the SVN version, that is partially why I use the DOSBox-X version. Then I’ll have to bug them a little more, because no one responded on my bug report over there (that is why I assumed that it was maybe a problem with the vanilla cpu core).

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Re: Is it possible to have HDMI output in DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2022-05-28, 07:40

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by digistorm

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I have a GeForce MX440 with a DVI port, and that works fine in DOS. However, when you use the DVI port it forces the Video signal to 60 Hz even if you use “70 Hz” display modes like text mode or 320x200. This is evidenced by scrolling demos either running too slow or stuttering where they shouldn’t. …

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Mac ARM64 port emulation errors (in cpu?)

Posted on 2022-05-23, 17:46

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by digistorm

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

I have been using the ARM64 port of DOSBox for a while now (with DOSBox-X) and while a lot of things just work, there are a few things that don't. Quake (from Phils DOS Bench suite) crashes on launch, PC Player Benchmark uses a completely wrong camera angle, and the demo Sunflower from Pulse …

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Re: Gotek on 386

Posted on 2022-05-18, 05:56

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by digistorm

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can you try the Gotek on another system to confirm it is dead? That would also make it easy to decide to return it.

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Re: Why is Gravis Ultrasound very expensive?

Posted on 2022-05-12, 07:55

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by digistorm

in Windows

in Windows

Why did the demoscene choose this card over the others? Apart from the reasons other people already mentioned, there has long been a tradition in the demo scene to see what's possible with a very limited amount of storage. 64k intro's, 4k intro's etc. A lot of intro's started to use GUS because the …

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Re: my compact flash experience is a dud

Posted on 2022-05-06, 06:28

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by digistorm

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The CF card itself should not be a problem. I can achieve around 45 MB/s with it, and the theoretical specs go even a bit further. I assume you have the same “industrial” card from Transcend as they only have one kind of the size of 16 GB.

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Re: ARGUS Project thread - now accepting pre-orders (for north/south American and Europe)

Posted on 2022-04-26, 14:33

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by digistorm

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

As far as I understand it, the classic GUS does not use a ROM and you are required to supply the needed .PAT files in the ULTRASND\MIDI directory yourself.

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Re: Tell me what it's like to own a GUS

Posted on 2022-04-16, 07:55

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by digistorm

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in Milliways

I was a big demo scene fan back in the day, and even went to demo parties. I got a GUS when I could, because there were a lot of releases that I couldn’t run without a GUS, and when I visited friends with one, I heard the big difference back in the day (because software mixing was too heavy so it …

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Re: MIDIto r11 (Midi and FM redirection, Mixer locking, Sound Blaster fixes)

Posted on 2022-04-14, 20:15

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by digistorm

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Ah, okay. Yeah, the 2.14a version works fine for me. I might just keep this version as it is working for this particular drive. With the XDVD2.SYS driver I get atrocious read speeds for some reason unknown to me.

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Re: MIDIto r11 (Midi and FM redirection, Mixer locking, Sound Blaster fixes)

Posted on 2022-04-12, 18:48

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by digistorm

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in Release Announcements

I too have noticed the problem with VIDECDD.SYS. I don't know what causes it. Maybe VIDECDD.SYS traps ports for some reason but I did test loading it before and after EMM386.EXE and there was no difference. If it traps ports, then it must do so during/after loading MSCDEX. But more likely it is …

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Re: MIDIto r11 (Midi and FM redirection, Mixer locking, Sound Blaster fixes)

Posted on 2022-04-12, 13:33

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by digistorm

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in Release Announcements

Yes, r9 does work on both sound cards. I tried all previous versions, but only with Impulse Tracker and that does not work with r9 (or maybe too short). For my use case that is no big deal, as Impulse Tracker also supports SB16 natively. I noticed something else: it doesn't play nice with the …

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Re: MIDIto r11 (Midi and FM redirection, Mixer locking, Sound Blaster fixes)

Posted on 2022-04-11, 09:42

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by digistorm

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

I have a question about the DSP fixes done by midito. I tried it on two SoundBlaster cards, a CT1740 SB16 (DSP 4.12) and a CT4520 AWE64 (DSP 4.16), but both still give me mono audio. I can hear that the pitch is different (like it is in mono mode), but no stereo sound. Am I missing something, or is …

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Re: GUSty - InterWave AM78C201 and Advanced Gravis GF1D1 chips cohabitation

Posted on 2022-04-10, 15:32

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by digistorm

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

You can disable the MPU and the IDE controller, and put the record and playback DMA on the same channel (putting it into half-duplex mode). But two GUS ACEs would be easier to pull off

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Re: GUSty - InterWave AM78C201 and Advanced Gravis GF1D1 chips cohabitation

Posted on 2022-04-10, 08:15

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by digistorm

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

In principle two GUSes should be able to sit next to each other because the base address can be set differently, but the GUSpnp uses so many resources that you might need to disable a lot of them. There was experimental dual GUS support in some module players, Open Cubic Player for example (it was …

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Re: ARGUS Project thread (aka GUSsel Crowe) - it's not dead (yet)

Posted on 2022-03-27, 14:48

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by digistorm

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I seem to remember that the AWE has a different interpolation algorithm, and it also has a filter that is always in the audio path, but set to a "flat" curve by default. But the AWE has a few problems, though: It can only process 16 bit samples (so 8 bit samples have to be "enlarged" to 16 bits) and …

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Re: ARGUS Project thread (aka GUSsel Crowe) - it's not dead (yet)

Posted on 2022-03-26, 06:24

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by digistorm

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

It is unfortunate, because it locks a lot of people out who want to experience the DOS demo scene legacy on original hardware. On the topic of MOD players; I use Open Cubic Player both with a AWE equipped machine and a GUSpnp equipped machine, and I find the AWE sounding a bit off in hardware mode, …

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Re: ARGUS Project thread (aka GUSsel Crowe) - it's not dead (yet)

Posted on 2022-03-23, 15:38

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by digistorm

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

In theory the Interwave is more accurate and has some extra features, but I mean, in practice… I own an GUSpnp and 99% of the time it is doing GUS classic stuff. It is nice if it could be done, but I suppose re-implementing a GUS ace would be cheaper then the full Interwave card because behind the …

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Re: ARGUS Project thread (aka GUSsel Crowe) - it's not dead (yet)

Posted on 2022-03-23, 06:19

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by digistorm

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

The GUSpnp is quite a complex card, I wonder if it will ever be possible to reimplement it at a reasonable cost. If flooding the market with inexpensive GUSses were the goal, it would be better to recreate the functionality of the original GUS. What it needs to do is well known (because of all the …

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Re: Fixing SB AWE64 Gold

Posted on 2022-02-10, 17:47

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by digistorm

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

That's the mistake right there, Creative should have added an MPU-401 interface to the EMU8k. If it wasn't possible then Creative should never have chosen the EMU8k in the first place since its wavetable isn't exactly spectacular and the effects are merely ok. Other companies were capable of on- …

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