Re: CM32L drum kit on AWE32 MT-32 Emulation

Posted on 2023-05-23, 12:21

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in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

you'd need to have the relevant sound font loaded, and then construct a midi file that does the GS reset and then map midi instruments as noted then hope whatever game you wanted to play didnt do a GM/GS reset to mess up what you just did. probably use midiox or something to filter out the reset …

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Re: DOS program: where to upload?

Posted on 2023-05-20, 14:45

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in Marvin \ Software

no, adding Copyright 1992-2023 - {real legal name} is all you need. fake name wont stand up to any real scrutinity if you ever hope to enforce the copyright or file claims etc. and if you want it to be opernsource, drop the the license file into directory. ie: here is my roguelike I just released a …

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Re: The VOGONS Miniature Painting (and Wargaming) Thread

Posted on 2023-05-17, 12:58

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in Milliways

appiah4 wrote on 2023-05-17, 09:28: Some Infinity figures I finished lately.. very cool. I love infinity! YuJing!

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Re: Real mode boot to DOS 6.22 & BIOS INT13h

Posted on 2023-05-11, 00:20

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

mostly i was alluding to the fact that disk images written using LBA then put into a PC mapping them as CHS usually does not work. mostly its about CHS machines aligning things to cylinders, often how it uses the first track purely for the mbr and starting partitions from the next cylinder, where in …

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Re: Real mode boot to DOS 6.22 & BIOS INT13h

Posted on 2023-05-10, 16:48

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by BloodyCactus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

your problem is using VM's to setup a CF image that done via LBA when the motherboard is using CHS.

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Re: Aphex' Aural Exciter - Uh-oh, it's Magic

Posted on 2023-05-03, 19:51

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in Marvin \ Sound

I hate those things. might as well chuck an alesis 3630 on it as well :rofl: there are so many exciter type devices, aka " lets add analog harmonics back into sterile digital recordings!", they can be fun to play with. I had an old silver face aphex exciter, didnt care for it much. aphex released …

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Re: MT-32 SB16 CT2290 NO GO :)

Posted on 2023-04-16, 17:38

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in MT-32 General

wing commander needs softmpu if you dont have an mpu401 afaik

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Re: Zsoft pcx madness

Posted on 2023-03-23, 00:36

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did you try dos GWS, graphics work shop? it had all the old dos conversion stuff

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Re: Help w/patching an ancient DOS clock program for Y2K compliance?

Posted on 2023-03-20, 15:18

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in Milliways

I did a quick look, its looking at hardware IO port 0x2C0, 0x2C1, 0x2c2, 0x2C3. and gets 0xFF invalid results, it then calls dos v1 api 0x21/2B, to set date with those invalid results, which returns an error (invalid date/time), so that dos set datetime fails. It then reads hardware io 0x2C4, 0x2C5, …

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Re: Borland Turbo Assembler, alignment filler in uninitialized segment

Posted on 2023-03-14, 13:16

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in Milliways

from my old memory lol, tasm will align code sections with nops, and data sections with 0's. bss for uninitialized data.. but you have fardata, so that is zeroes. i dont remember if it has farbss or not. maybe you need "fardata?" for unitiliazed (but I think fardata? is for tasm's "masm …

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Re: Question about Digital Out on Sound Blaster AWE32

Posted on 2023-02-14, 04:06

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in Marvin \ Sound

you understand -6 is really loud right and your just below peaking? how high do you want it? and how much higher than -6 do you think non-midi is if you think midi is really low volume at -6?

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Re: Mount/imgmount after boot from hardfile.

Posted on 2023-02-07, 23:28

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in DOSBox General

no. once you boot the hardfile, thats it. no outside access in that manner

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2023-01-27, 17:59

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in Marvin \ Video

just got an extron 300a.. kinda disappointed in the lag. its about 1/2 to 1 second. that could be down to my live gamer portable that the extron is going into.... but it shouldnt be... hmmm strange. not sure if that lag can be reduced in any way. Yeah that's something else in your chain. The extron …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2023-01-27, 17:44

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in Marvin \ Video

just got an extron 300a.. kinda disappointed in the lag. its about 1/2 to 1 second. that could be down to my live gamer portable that the extron is going into.... but it shouldnt be... hmmm strange. not sure if that lag can be reduced in any way.

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Re: expanding vga video card memory

Posted on 2023-01-26, 16:01

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by BloodyCactus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

unless your running windows, probably not worth it. games and such dont use the memory, its really only for hires images. a 1024x768 16bit image is 1.5mb.. and doing games that need vesa 800x600 or something on a 486 is probably not a good idea either 😀

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Re: Expanded memory managers and DOS

Posted on 2023-01-22, 16:05

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in Marvin \ Software

UPDATE: I got it to work! I tested another descendant of the LoTech 1MB EMS card (produced and sold by a great guy with the nick name wizard.amras.83 at ebay). This card had one of the 512k RAM chips permanently soldered, while the other one was on a socket. I pulled out the second 512k chip - and …

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Re: Strange DOS installation behavior on 486DX4 / GA-486AM/S

Posted on 2023-01-20, 00:47

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After partitioning the hard drive, formatting, setting active partition, mbr and installing DOS, the boot stuck after post screen. No error messages. so you partion, reboot, format, reboot, set active, reboot, install dos, reboot... after the last one it doesnt boot? how strange. i would do a …

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Re: DOS anti-virus recommendation

Posted on 2023-01-16, 19:43

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in Marvin \ Software

Blue text windows, was probably VSUM. it was blue and a virus encyclopedia.

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Re: Software comparison

Posted on 2023-01-11, 04:29

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its a tradeoff. dosbox is fast but loose with its emulations. virtualbox is slow but much stricter, but far less game oriented. I prefer dosbox-x for dos and virtualbox for "complete" emulation of stuff (not gaming tho).

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Re: Recommended 16-bit DOS compressor?

Posted on 2023-01-08, 20:25

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in Marvin \ Software

HA. 7zip has a dos port (pmode tho). ha is very good. Ive also used hap/pah (hap3/pah3) for some time too.

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