Re: Amiga 500 Music Software and Music players

Posted on 2023-11-04, 11:24

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by vkcpolice

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thx i got protracker to work and i have seen that vid many many times 🤣. the problem was i was just dumping my mod files straight to my sd card and needed to put them into a adf all good nice my Amiga is singing

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Re: Amiga 500 Music Software and Music players

Posted on 2023-11-03, 12:38

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by vkcpolice

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How do i use hippoplayer i cant find a adf of it. all i can find is a iha file. i need a player that i can boot with my goeteck

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Re: Commodore 64 video problems

Posted on 2023-11-03, 11:19

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by vkcpolice

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thanks Kekkula looks interesting maybe one day but im not a fan of adding extra computers like the pi to these old computers i like everything to be original

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Re: Commodore 64 video problems

Posted on 2023-11-03, 11:10

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by vkcpolice

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Thanks CharlieFoxtrot interesting read it seem all c64s are like this and all you can do is improve the video signal but it will never be perfect. im not sure what causes the jail bars but its obviously how the computer writes the image to the screen. that sort of stuff is way beyond me. i guess i …

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Re: Amiga 500 Music Software and Music players

Posted on 2023-11-03, 08:42

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by vkcpolice

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will hippo play play XM / S3M / IT or only mod files i will try it out later i got protracker to load but it wont load any mod files i have on my goetek drive yes i have them mounted i just don't know how to use the software thanks

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Re: Amiga 500 Music Software and Music players

Posted on 2023-11-03, 08:40

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by vkcpolice

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thankyou but mines a 3rd party made board

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Re: Commodore 64 video problems

Posted on 2023-11-03, 08:23

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by vkcpolice

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Hi All I know this is an old thread but only recently got around to playing with my breadbin once more to try and fix these video issues i did all the above mods in Adrian Black's Vid. i also got another lumafix but have not used it as it did not fix the jail bar lines at all. this is the best pic i …

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Amiga 500 Music Software and Music players

Posted on 2023-11-02, 12:36

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by vkcpolice

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Hi All im still fairly new to to Amiga scene and was wondering what the best music player for a Amiga 500 would be. i have kick start 1.3 the base 512k of ram and the extra 512k of ram i was would like to play formats like MOD / XM / S3M / IT i was also wondering if i upgraded my kick start rom if i …

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Re: Load DOS games from scsi Zip/Jaz drive?

Posted on 2022-07-07, 13:23

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by vkcpolice

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I have 2 iomega drives i both run dos game from they are parallel not scsi. they run fine even with games like duke 3d yes its slow for the first time but once its in ram it runs ok older games are better like the old 3d apogee titles. i was using 1 on my 286 for a while when the mfm drive broke …

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Re: Modern Midi Keyboards On Vintage Computers

Posted on 2022-06-20, 23:35

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by vkcpolice

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This really sucks i was hoping to get it working in win 3.11 also play dos games out through the GM drivers

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Modern Midi Keyboards On Vintage Computers

Posted on 2022-06-20, 13:35

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by vkcpolice

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Hi All Hope everyone is doing well. i just bought a new keyboard Casio cts190 it says it has GM but the keyboard has a micro B usb port no old skool midi ports. is it still possible to connect these keyboards to vintage computers?

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Re: Windows 3.11 Ultimate Build

Posted on 2022-05-14, 11:36

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by vkcpolice

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chrismeyer6 yes the system is all up and running again

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Re: Windows 3.11 Ultimate Build

Posted on 2022-05-08, 07:08

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by vkcpolice

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Admins Delete If not Allowed As many have Requested here is the huge collection of windows 3.1 software im currently running on my 486 all this software should run without the Win32s Subset https://archive.org/details/windows-3.1-software

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Cant get Win 32s or video for windows working on win 3.11

Posted on 2022-05-06, 09:28

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by vkcpolice

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So ive been really playing around with win 3.11 installing heaps of software like ms office ect. my issue with win 3.11 is every time i install the win 32 subset or video for windows all my other applications will refuse to open and throw up a general protection fault this happens with apps like ms …

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Re: Trying to set up a cf card in a 486

Posted on 2022-04-28, 02:28

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by vkcpolice

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Thx all issue solved was the bios HDD limit fixed with ezdrive

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Best software for writing 1.44mb disk images

Posted on 2022-04-27, 13:29

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by vkcpolice

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Hi all im looking for a good program to write floppy images as win image throws up write errors all the time. even if i use a brand new floppy all i get is error on track ect.

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Trying to set up a cf card in a 486

Posted on 2022-04-26, 08:58

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by vkcpolice

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Hi all im trying to set up a cf card in dos 6.22 i have a 4gb cf card that im trying to partition to 2 2gb partitions but when i run fdisk from the ms dos 6.22 floppy it will only allow a maximum of around 500mb. is this normal i had no issues when i was using a normal hdd what would be a …

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Re: Windows 3.11 Ultimate Build

Posted on 2022-04-21, 10:25

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by vkcpolice

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Lots of nice toys there! i cant help myself i have a whole room setup with all my vintage computers so i can just jump from one to another. i know it takes up room but theirs nothing like using real hardware i think i use my amiga and commodore 64 more than i use modern pcs they basically do …

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Re: Windows 3.11 Ultimate Build

Posted on 2022-04-20, 15:49

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by vkcpolice

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@vkcpolic You are doing something wrong. it works fine. I wrote the order to go by when you install windows 3.11, never fails for me. But other then that. mp5.2 is not really useful. It can't play wav, mid or mpg files. only asf, asx, nsc and netstreams. which... there arn't many of. win31mp52beta. …

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Re: Windows 3.11 Ultimate Build

Posted on 2022-04-20, 02:41

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by vkcpolice

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Thx I have tried mp 5.2 on heaps of different PC's running win 3.1 and it does corrupt the DLL files it does not happen straight away it takes a few reboots to happen for example after installing mp I'd launch ms word as soon as I quit the software I get error general protection fault in DLL that is …

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