Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2025-01-07, 19:53

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except things that rely on CTF were composed on a unit that has it, including those polyphony limits so adding more polyphony with CTF isnt going to give you anything extra, and going to break those things composed on the mkII that never had CTF... so they wont sound right. Maybe... I tried that …

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2024-11-11, 00:15

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ruthan wrote on 2024-11-11, 00:11: Where is last version of SetMul to download? Because in the 1st post i file with date 2019, it means 5 years old. That is the latest release. Time flies...

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2024-11-10, 14:26

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Hope this help! -max Thanks for the clear. it is interesting. The debug output needs some additional logging indeed. I will have to add that. Seems though, I have to postpone that 2 weeks because of travel plans.. I do have a VIA Apollo pro mainboard here plus an interwave based, GUS-like card. But …

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2024-11-07, 22:57

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Hi Gerwin, thanks for your input! I've been testing CPU speed with different tools. These are the readings with EMM386, before starting SoftMPU: ... Would it be possible to add additional output to SetMUL so it reports what is about to do, and we can identity at which stage we lock ? Happy to …

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2024-11-06, 19:03

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Would be interesting to get Gerwin ideas, maybe we can build a debug version of Setmul to see which system data is modified from various MPU TSR, and whether we can work this around, so CPU clock is not changed unintentionally starting Setmul. Yes, I am reading this. But still pondering it, between …

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Re: Questions about a mysterious sound card

Posted on 2024-10-24, 16:25

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This GS-32 is similar to two other cards: the Dream PW-32 Pro and the PowerWave. The Midi-music-only functionality of such cards is comparable to the Roland SCC-1, but unlike the Roland they usually need a driver to initialize. The PW-32 Pro/PowerWave cards have the common Dream-SA SAM 9233 …

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Re: Intel SR440BX - very long POST time

Posted on 2024-10-23, 17:46

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I also have this SR440BX. And plenty of documentation for it. Unfortunately no official remark regarding the maximum supported HDD size... Found this topic, about a similar motherboard: Intel SE440BX-2 P13 BIOS Maximum HDD Size?

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Re: Intel SR440BX - very long POST time

Posted on 2024-10-23, 13:13

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The board was sold separately, without CPU. CPU support list indicates PIII support with version P02 or later. To be honest, at the moment, I'm not sure if I have P01 or P02 currently on the board. Anyway, I have PII 350 at hand which is definitely supported in all bios versions - I'll try that. …

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2024-10-22, 23:38

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Oh yeah. I forgot about the L6 bridges in my previous reply. Indeed I had to cut one or more bridges. See quote from 2019 below. (And if I had a software trick to do the same, I would not have done so, but I don't have a software trick.) Thanks for confirming. Any tips on a good method of cutting …

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2024-10-22, 14:10

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This has to do with the L6 bridge on the top of the chip and not with SETMUL. See here for info... If you find a safe way to cut closed bridges, please let me know, I am also interested in doing this. I could be wrong and there may be a way of forcing SETMUL to ignore the L6 bridge. @gerwin - can …

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2024-10-21, 22:25

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Hi, thanks for the software, you saved me as the old machine I used with dos+98 died. I turned an athlon xp 2000+ Thorton into XP-M (L5 mod), as A7V600-X motherboard (bios 1002) with 512mb ddr, sound blaster live player 1024 pci and Nvidia Geforce FX 5200. Works great! the only problem I found …

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Re: Looking at patch creators for MS-DOS

Posted on 2024-10-18, 00:17

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I've tested it in DOSBox-X, but it says that the executable is not a DOS program. I meant in the title as an 'MS-DOS patcher' and clearly not a Windows command-based program. Sorry. I assumed something, and neglected to test it first. Did just notice this one, PatchMaker: https://www.vogons.org/ …

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Re: Pentium 3 doesn't work on Pentium 2 motherboard

Posted on 2024-10-17, 20:25

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Apart from TRW, all the BIOS files and the microcode app are still available from Fujitsu support. I also found out that in theory BIOSes and microcode updates are still available...but it is not possible to download them, I tried latest New Moon 28 on WinXP and Firefox 115 on Win7. Is anybody able …

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UnMech3 - Unity MechWarrior 3 (Work in progress)

Posted on 2024-10-17, 20:20

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Did not find any mention of this on Vogons. In the past I put some effort into getting the original working better on semi-modern hardware: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=42714. But it remained troublesome. Also the content of the game is rather canned and un-moddable, plus the computer- …

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Re: Pentium 3 doesn't work on Pentium 2 motherboard

Posted on 2024-10-17, 15:52

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MrSzalonna wrote on 2024-10-17, 13:54: my new 550 Mhz Pentium 3 arrived Is that CPU a 2 Volt Katmai core, or a +-1,7 Volt Coppermine core?

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Re: VOGONS github

Posted on 2024-10-17, 15:36

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Wow, man can't be sure of anything these days. Xash3D (at least prebuild binaries) stopped working on Win XP. This build is the last one, which works on XP out of the box. Later builds are borked since this commit . OpenXcom Extended (OXCE) also stopped working with provided binaries from version …

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Re: Turtle Beach Soundfonts ??? / WEMP player

Posted on 2024-10-12, 13:05

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vmunix wrote on 2024-10-12, 09:15: By the way the sound bank was provided by VoiceCrystal a company I think it is still around. They are. Their "4 Meg General Midi Sound set version 4.1" SoundFont can still be purchased on their website. https://www.voicecrystal.com/sfengine.mv?#top

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Re: Winamp's source code is now open

Posted on 2024-10-11, 16:04

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I don't know why the ALSA interface in the "AMIDI Plugin" was removed and the plugin stuck with only talking to libfluidsynth, there was nothing wrong with having the ALSA interface part of that plugin. Yeah, I even considered filing a request, but it is intentional: https://audacious-media-player. …

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Re: Intel publishes a white paper on x86S, a 64-bit only architecture

Posted on 2024-09-30, 19:40

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After AMD's debacle with VME, you think they will not drop x86 compatibility probably even before Intel does? No illusions there. Voting with the wallet between those two (intel/AMD) won't change anything in the roadmaps. Their competitor history seems to me somewhat fabricated and unnatural …

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Re: Intel publishes a white paper on x86S, a 64-bit only architecture

Posted on 2024-09-30, 17:18

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Customers can vote with their wallet whether they like or dislike the reduced capabilities. Voted AMD for the new company computers this week. 1-Intel had their crappy spectre/meltdown mitigations. 2-Intel recently had reliability issues with their processors. And, as I read, they kept affected …

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