Received mine today! Great piece of hardware in conjunction with SofMPU. My application targeting a real MPU worked out of the box with MPU-232+SoftMPU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niLEam4iVkE . I thought that I'd implement support for serial port interfaces directly, but it works so well and …

Bumping because I have narrowed the issue down further. I tried emptying AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to no avail. Finally, I tried disabling the cache in BIOS. When I do this, the game works, albeit slowly. This further allowed some other games to run that had similar freezing issues (Lost Vikings, …

I'm not sure which option best reflects my preference, but most of all I'd like joystick+MIDI (UART or full MPU-401). It's relatively easy to find a laptop with decent SB Pro compatibility but I don't know of a single laptop with a built-in SB compatible joystick port.

Spectre was actually proven through a JavaScript vulnerability. A P4 or older won't be affected due to lacking the feature that Spectre exploits. Still relevant for the time scale in which newer CPUs than P4 can be considered "old". It is also rather dependent on modern JavaScript APIs or JIT-based …

Hi all, I've been having some trouble getting ROTT to run on a Libretto 100 CT. It would crash and hang just as it finished loading. By coincidence, I found out why today. If I use the maximum screen size (no HUD) it works fine...any other size and it crashes immediately as the game starts (if I …

Thanks, that indeed works re Doom! Since I play that with WASD now that I have a real mouse, there is no issue with the shift prefixes either. Num lock seems to have no effect on Wolfenstein 3D, though. Looking at keyboard events it seems that shifts end up in the stream anyway while more than one …

Thanks, that's a great explanation and certainly sheds some light on what I'm experiencing in Wolfenstein 3D. However, I'm sure that I've had left shift bound in Doom before, and fake shifts then don't explain why I can't bind it in the Doom setup any more. I will write a program to log scan codes …

Hi, I've been trying to get Wolfenstein 3D to run properly on both a Libretto 50CT and a 100CT. It does run quite perfectly, but I'm experiencing a strange issue, where holding down the cursor keys sometimes also triggers the shift key, This causes run mode to be enabled sporadically. I have tried …

In my case, only if the MIDI module also passes the data on the RS232 port to its MIDI ... output port.... This is exactly what the RS-232-capable Roland/Korg/Yamaha/etc. units do, for what it's worth. Thanks, I've read through the manual for SC-55MkII now and you're absolutely right. However, it …

I have been looking for a solution to get a MIDI output from laptops running DOS without having to find a PCMCIA MIDI interface (which seem rare enough). All you need for this is SoftMPU and any MIDI module with a serial interface (so almost every unit since the SC-55 Mk.2). In my case, only if the …

I am very much looking forward to this! I have been looking for a solution to get a MIDI output from laptops running DOS without having to find a PCMCIA MIDI interface (which seem rare enough). I am planning to support this directly in my software for MIDI sync/start/stop. Is the idea still to …

Thanks for the help, I ended up writing a DRO parser to figure out the register writes in the dumps I found here: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=178108 . And hey, I like your fm801 work. Bought a ForteMedia card a couple of years ago just to try it out. Great stuff! Anyway, if anyone is …

I've been trying out the rhythm mode for OPL2 and OPL3 (the mode where the operators of the last three channels are used to generate percussion sounds), but I can't seem to work it out. The only drum I can get to make a sound at all is the hi-hat (bit 1 in register 0xBD). Yesterday I got to a point …