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Re: FM synth - native/direct vs. through MIDI?

It seems like most musicians at the time originally used a midi module when writing the music, but they very clearly targeted it towards playback on a sound blaster or compatible. The Tyrian sound track is a classic example where it sounds much better when played back on a sound blaster than an …

Re: Questions on running/testing a Japanese 100v sound module (Roland SC-D70) on a North American 120V power grid .

Because those switching power supplies use a high voltage buffer capacitor at line voltage before the switching part. In 220-240V regions they are rated for 400V (typically) but in 100-120V they might have a lower rating to save costs. The same may be true for other components on the incoming side …

Re: PCem emulation speed is terrible

It is all about single core performance for CPU emulation and modern architectures are just much better at that and are higher clocked too. Also, "good" isn't always enough when you want to emulate a faster computer, and when your emulator tries to run at a "fixed" speed it is even harder because …

Re: CRT experience

I often find the monitors that support 70 HZ are often the lower resolution ones because they just have less pixels to push around. For anything above 1024x768 it becomes less likely to support more than 60 Hz (but they do exist). For me the most annoying thing about digital screens is that they …

Re: Inability to use PCI and AGP graphics cards at the same time - a quirk with AGP-PCI motherboards?

I have a GeForce 2 MX and a ET6000 card working together in Windows 98 (if I want to). I do not use it like that unless I want to compare monitors. I can just boot normally with AGP but I think you do have to connect a monitor before you boot or Windows will not correctly detect the output. Back in …

Re: CRT experience

To my eyes the response curves of most CRTs are different than modern displays that are all tuned to give benchmark perfect results. Also the primary colors on CRTs look different then modern calibrated displays. Not always for the better, but a good CRT with (still) good phosphors has a particular, …

Re: CT1740 Potentiometer Problem

What gives, I wonder? People echoing each other, anecdotal evidence, among others? I have used quite a lot of hardware in my life, and the CT1740 that I own now is among the less noisier of what I have experienced. Are there more quite Sound Blasters? Yeah. Probably. But if I set the volume of my …

Re: Revised IT WSS Driver

I have no need for this myself, because I have an original GUSpnp card, but are you aware that there is also a .mmx driver for the codec? If you CPU supports MMX it provides much higher quality mixing (the default mixer is not very good) and it supports the resonant filters of the .IT format.

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