Re: Beneath a Steel Sky CD - Roland music + SB Speech

Posted on 2024-07-22, 08:15

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by Laukku

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Excellent that a patch finally has been made. A final issue is that the game for some reason (not a fault of the patch, the game always has done so) lowers SoundBlaster volume in DOSBox (to 4:4 in DOSBox-X and 12:12 in Daum), making sound effects almost inaudible against the MT-32 music. And the …

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Re: Anybody tried this with your MT-32?

Posted on 2024-04-13, 11:00

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by Laukku

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Unfortunately you cannot do this with the standard Munt driver for Windows. You either need 2 real MT-32's or use Munt VSTi. Yes you can; I got it working using LoopMIDI and MIDI-OX. Make 3 midi ports in LoopMIDI (let's call them A, B and C) In MIDI-OX set from "Options" -> "Midi Devices..." A as …

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Re: Lesser known Win9x MIDI Softsynths

Posted on 2024-02-23, 18:50

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by Laukku

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I found this list from 1998: https://community.fortunecity.ws/tinpan/elton … 231/softsyn.htm

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Re: WinGroove lives again (in soundfont form)

Posted on 2024-02-21, 20:27

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by Laukku

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Hi all, I give you my personal version of Wingroove soundfont converted using the code https://github.com/pachuco/WGKnife to which I congratulate them. Could it be possible to do it the other way around, creating a custom soundbank for WinGroove to use? I'm wondering because I became interested in …

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Re: Worst adventure game ever made?

Posted on 2020-11-30, 19:40

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by Laukku

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Psycho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Piq2jPg-c-Q https://advgamer.blogspot.com/2012/07/game-22-psycho-introduction.html https://advgamer.blogspot.com/2012/07/game-22-psycho-exceeding-expectations.html https://advgamer.blogspot.com/2012/08/game-22-psycho-won.html https://advgamer.blogspot.com/2012/ …

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Re: A couple of Sierra SCI questions

Posted on 2020-11-13, 20:52

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by Laukku

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Regarding point 1, it's indeed possible to play the game in DOSBox with MT-32 music and digitised audio, I did so in early 2013. Here's a longplay video with such a sound setup; the arrow-firing sound effect in the title screen is a clear tell. Note that not every sound effect is made with recorded …

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Re: GOG Request: Original Disk Images/Installers!

Posted on 2019-04-22, 17:56

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by Laukku

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Some similar GOG wishlist items: https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/images_of_o … tallation_media https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/include_set … xe_in_dos_games

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Re: MT-32 General Midi Conversion/Patching problems

Posted on 2018-03-16, 11:52

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by Laukku

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I've gotten a MTGM.MID to work by playing it with PLAYMID.EXE in DOSBox. (Here's a video of Trilby's Notes.) See also: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/ultimate-rol … 2-tutorial.html (Includes playmid.exe)

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Re: MIDI music sources

Posted on 2017-09-09, 17:23

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by Laukku

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http://www.midimusicadventures.com/queststudios/ has MIDIs from Sierra games, and several complete soundtracks in the form of hours-long single MIDI files.

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Re: Recent games made for MS-DOS

Posted on 2017-09-05, 19:24

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by Laukku

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ADOM continues to have versions for MS-DOS, although that one started development in the '90s. With some tweaking, many games made with AGS can be played in DOSBox, although performance isn't optimal: https://youtu.be/VYFL1Q8aeSk

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Re: Which OPL song do you like better than its MT-32 version or GM version?

Posted on 2017-08-26, 12:11

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by Laukku

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King's Quest (1990 remake) - most of the MT-32 instruments, especially the trumpet, in this one sound to me like someone playing a comb.

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Re: Yamaha S-YXG50 Portable VSTi (a software MIDI synth)

Posted on 2017-07-09, 11:01

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by Laukku

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I tried to install this via the "VST MIDI Driver (as a system MIDI synth)" method, but whenever I try to connect to the driver (for example, in DOSBox I set mididevice=win32 and the appropriate midiconfig value) I get the attached error message and the application crashes. All other MIDI devices …

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Re: List of games that use MT-32 default instruments

Posted on 2017-07-06, 20:47

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by Laukku

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Spikey wrote: Leisure Suit Larry 2 and Legend of Kyrandia 1 also, although the latter has some custom SFX that won't play correctly without a LA device. In addition to SFX, Legend of Kyrandia 1 actually uses at least one custom instrument, one that replaces the "soundtrack" instrument.

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Re: Where can I get SVN equivalent to normal version?

Posted on 2017-06-16, 14:16

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by Laukku

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But the EmuCR versions lack screenshot support, as stated in OP.

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Re: Where can I get SVN equivalent to normal version?

Posted on 2017-06-16, 08:50

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by Laukku

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Even if you don't want any ECE features, that page should have a vanilla SVN build too. The one called "DOSBox SVN r4022.7z". The page states: I regularly compile the source code released on SourceForge into an unmodified version and an enhanced version containing various patches with improvements

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Re: Soundfonts and Retrogaming MIDI

Posted on 2017-06-14, 14:53

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by Laukku

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appiah4 wrote: Soundfonts I looked for but failed to find or were commercial: Musyng GM/GS I did a quick google search and found several download links here: http://www.synthfont.com/soundfonts.html I tried the OneDrive link and it worked from me. BTW, LauGM is 124 MB when the .sfArk is unpacked.

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Re: Soundfont recommendation thread

Posted on 2017-05-12, 08:09

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by Laukku

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Another good one is fireball sf, bby Lord Of the Chicken Wings. I personally use that as my primary soundfont. Whoa, that's quite big - almost 400 Mb. How many soundfont makers actually try to make them small too? Mine is 127 Mb (still somewhat large) and sounds much better IMO than almost any …

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Re: Basic GLSL shader support (prototype)

Posted on 2017-02-19, 18:16

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by Laukku

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is it or would it be possible somehow to use retroarch's "crt-royale" shader with directly with dosbox (the dosbox core in retroarch is not really very usable). Apparently not, as it seems to be RetroArch-only: http://filthypants.blogspot.fi/2015/04/more-crt-shaders.html This shader was written by …

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Re: DOSBox SVN Builds

Posted on 2017-02-07, 16:20

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by Laukku

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I had the same problem, but after seeing James-F's screenshot and taking a closer look at the wording in the conf: Note that in case it is used, the respective shader files must be found in the "glshaders" subdirectory relatively to where the default DOSBox configuration fiel is stored. For shader …

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Re: DOSBox SVN Builds

Posted on 2017-01-28, 18:10

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by Laukku

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Clearly, the ECE edition is the new Daum replacement. I hope not. It is great having a build that provides more accurate audio and a few enhancements like Munt, I would really hate to see this become another everything-including-the-kitchen-sink build. Each added patch creates another possibility …

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