Re: Tandy sound emulation quality - issues with Skate or Die

Posted on 2021-08-01, 02:11

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Here's a recording from Cloudschatze: Featuring SN76496 "3-voice" tones, noise-channel drums, and 4-bit playback of PCM digital samples. Audio recorded directly from a Tandy 1000 RL system, with additional stereo-chorus and EQ effects applied. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8_z_CI37JE DOSBox has …

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Re: AUDIO Patch supporting FLAC, Opus, and MP3 audio tracks

Posted on 2021-07-24, 22:08

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by krcroft

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Deffnator wrote on 2021-07-24, 19:24: it would be interesting to see GoG or stock Privateer with high quality ripped audio instead of MIDI soundtracks. Hi Deffnator, I don't think Privateer's CDROM ever came with CDDA tracks; so your highest-quality option is to use MIDI with you favourite …

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Re: Tyrian like DOS game around 1995-1997?

Posted on 2021-06-04, 23:05

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https://www.mobygames.com/game/xenon-2-megablast/screenshots

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2021-05-14, 03:59

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hail-to-the-ryzen, right, with two lookup tables defined (one for unsigned and the other signed), the need to adjust the 8-bit values (with xor or offsetting by 128) can be avoided and directly looked up as jmash suggested. Ref: lines 369 and 370 https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/pull …

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2021-05-14, 01:55

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jmarsh, hail-to-the-ryzen - the lookup table suggestion is flying and generating unbiased results to boot. Thanks all round! Code Explorer: https://godbolt.org/z/f6xddKarf Google Benchmarks: https://quick-bench.com/q/FO-kOkUG-atr8vmaoJ6KMyW9srM Filename 2021-05-13_18-15.png File size 45.53 KiB …

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2021-05-13, 17:09

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by krcroft

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I would like to request the conditional removal of a sanity check. That would enable me to post the script that creates the oversize image and makes few necessary changes to the game code I commented out the two lines you mentioned before building r4452, so please give that version a try. Yes, all …

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2021-05-13, 06:33

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Thanks, hail-to-the-ryzen. Here's the side-by-side in GodBolt: https://godbolt.org/z/5onrGxWPe

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2021-05-04, 16:26

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Yesterplay, context into these sanity checks (and others in the CD-DA patch) was to catch and inform users when things have really gone off the rails - for example: bad CD dump, broken/incompatible CUE sheets (which make it beyond the mounting phase), corrupt memory or integer overflows, and the …

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Re: Document Check / Copy Protection Removal Tutorials

Posted on 2021-05-04, 14:40

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I think this is very valuable information both for the preservation of this (increasingly) lost art as well as to gain historic insight into the software protection mechanisms themselves, and how they evolved over time. My understanding is that performing, documenting, and teaching these actions is …

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Re: dynrec vs. secure platforms - opinions wanted

Posted on 2021-04-28, 01:08

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Indeed - the goal was to share @kklobe's work in hopes of progressing an elegant and performant solution; to help the general effort (without any project goals or affiliations in mind). the dual-mapping used in DOSBox-X is better than using MAP_JIT and juggling the w^x protection. Thanks for …

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Re: dynrec vs. secure platforms - opinions wanted

Posted on 2021-04-27, 20:14

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I would suggest copying what DOSBox-X does instead. I understood you weren't happy with what DOSBox-X did from both of your responses: Apparently rather than discussing possible solutions, other people just want to be told what works so they can slap it in their project and take credit for figuring …

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Re: dynrec vs. secure platforms - opinions wanted

Posted on 2021-04-27, 15:03

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jmarsh, relaying an update from kklobe based on your feedback. Exciting stuff.. hopefully a solution is close to converging! ps- kklobe's wanted to reply here on vogons; just waiting for the account sign-up to clear.

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Re: dynrec vs. secure platforms - opinions wanted

Posted on 2021-04-24, 14:34

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Carrying on the discussion, GitHub user @kklobe summarized use of MAP_JIT to get the dynamic core running natively on Apple's M1 ARM processor: https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/discussions/989 The plan mentioned is to continue following this thread's proposal to discuss and find the …

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Re: Old games that had CD Audio tracks?

Posted on 2021-04-15, 13:02

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by krcroft

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Roger that; thanks for the correction.

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Re: Old games that had CD Audio tracks?

Posted on 2021-04-14, 15:41

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Added, thanks Spikey!

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Re: Old games that had CD Audio tracks?

Posted on 2021-04-12, 17:27

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Updated https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=58868&p=673031#p673031 with contributions from Great Hierophant, NewRisingSun, Staticblast, MAZter, and willow (in order of posts). Thank you! MusicallyInspired, the version of Star Wars - Dark Forces with CD-DA tracks was a rerelease edition having …

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Re: AUDIO Patch supporting FLAC, Opus, and MP3 audio tracks

Posted on 2021-04-04, 15:39

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Hi almeath, > The patch is meant to also work with standard (SDL1) DOSBox SVN? It's bit-rotten since its last update here, but the work has found a home in DOSBox ECE, DOSBox-X, DOSBox Core, and DOSBox Staging. For SVN, I'd suggest using the latest state of the patch used by ECE - it was last …

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Re: Compile SVN in macOS?

Posted on 2021-03-14, 03:40

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> It is too bad Github desktop does not provide a feature to help convert commits into diff files. When viewing a commit: https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=105233 Slap a ".diff" on the end of the URL and ... https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=105234 .. it'll …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-02-21, 18:20

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PD2JK wrote on 2021-02-17, 14:36: I'm still afraid of putting my head in front of an AOpen 56x speed cd-rom drive spinning at full speed. Wise choice! http://www.qedata.se/js_n-cdrom.htm

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Re: The music in the game isn't working

Posted on 2021-02-05, 19:18

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by krcroft

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Fortunately Shadow Warrior (1997) is free on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/238070/Shadow_Warrior_Classic_1997/ AwServant, if you've first run Shadow Warrior's setup tool, then choose MIDI music on port 330 for your music driver. Then ensure MIDI is setup in your DOSBox configuration (. …

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