Re: Gigabyte GA-6BA and Voodoo 3 jumpers

Posted on 2019-03-29, 18:04

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by tpowell.ca

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It bypasses the onboard 3.3v regulators for the AGP port and uses the ATX power supplied 3.3v lines directly. My understanding is that, at the time the Voodoo cards were most likely the most power hungry 3.3v AGP cards available and caused issues with VRMs. You'll notice the jumpers are right near …

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Re: Sherlock Holmes : sound card edition

Posted on 2019-03-28, 17:01

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Looks like gerwin is correct. CT5801 https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-a1x7hg2jgk/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/6493/30026/creative-labs-pci-sound-card-ct5801-1.27__87664.1489956469.jpg?c=2?imbypass=on https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiJ4frhp6XhAhUr5IMKHU …

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Re: A List of DOS Games with 16-Bit Sound

Posted on 2019-03-28, 15:17

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by tpowell.ca

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Cloudschatze wrote: It's already there. Click on the image of the spreadsheet in the initial post to access the full Google Docs version. Well then; excellent work Cloudschatze. 😀

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Re: A List of DOS Games with 16-Bit Sound

Posted on 2019-03-27, 20:32

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by tpowell.ca

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While I really like what you've done here, I think you should add a column for source material. For example, many westwood titles use 4bit custom ADPCM compression at various sampling rates in different titles (often 22kHz I think). Some games actually have 16bit samples as was mentioned in the …

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Re: Via CPU pros and cons ?

Posted on 2019-03-22, 12:36

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by tpowell.ca

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Yeah, i think that via c3 cpu might be a waist of time. I have read that performance is terrible compared with amd and intel. And finding a compatible motherboard is not easy. That depends on your intended software. So far, my VIA system at its limits beats the AMD K6-III+ at its own limits. That …

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Re: Adlib & GUS - Can they Conflict?

Posted on 2019-03-21, 16:14

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by tpowell.ca

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Can anyone with an Ultrasound Ace identify what the Adlib port disable jumper connects to ? Maybe we can retrofit this to earlier full Ultrasound cards.

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Re: Can't play Duke Nukem 3D (sound error)

Posted on 2019-03-16, 23:46

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by tpowell.ca

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Are the files still read-only? Check their attributes to confirm that they all only have their archive bit set at most.

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Re: SC-55 without general midi logo

Posted on 2019-03-15, 18:29

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by tpowell.ca

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You'll want to read this thread. Apparently not all GS-only sc-55s are the same, some are GM In short...

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Re: HardMPU, anyone?

Posted on 2019-03-14, 18:14

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by tpowell.ca

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Sorry if you already answered this but I haven't seen... Have you moved the MIDI functionality of any other sound cards in the system away from port 330? Definitely. I have 2 other soundcards, none of which have an MPU port enabled. I also tried taking out my 2 cards leaving only the HardMPU card, …

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Re: HardMPU, anyone?

Posted on 2019-03-14, 15:05

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I just can't figure it out. I tried on my 486DX4-133 computer with turbo off and while the game is slightly too fast, the MT32-specific music and sound effects are again, completely wrong, in fact, its worse. On this machine, the intro visuals are ahead of the music and only catch up at the end …

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Re: HardMPU, anyone?

Posted on 2019-03-14, 01:47

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I will admit that the default IRQ 2/9 is shared by ACPI on my motherboard which cannot be disabled or moved but even when I set the card to IRQ 3, the problem persisted. I'm wondering if maybe my card is defective 🙁

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Re: Phil's Wing Commander IV benchmark

Posted on 2019-03-12, 13:39

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by tpowell.ca

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I don't recall which youtube video, but it was a mere mention by Phil about getting under 10fps on even Pentium-generation machine. Having played this game, I just don't recall which part Phil speaks of.

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Phil's Wing Commander IV benchmark

Posted on 2019-03-10, 13:58

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by tpowell.ca

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Question for Phil or anyone who knows. Does anyone have a savegame for the interior ship section that apparently is cpu killer/benchmark mentioned in Phil's videos on YouTube?

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D - what's the resolution of the original textures?

Posted on 2019-03-09, 14:41

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by tpowell.ca

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bergqvistjl wrote: Sadly there's no: "1:1 but stretched to a 4:3 ratio" option. That would have been perfect for any non-square pixel content then. Do you mean stretching while maintaining the aspect ratio (meaning you would get some black bars in 320x200) ?

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Re: DOS drivers for ESS688?

Posted on 2019-03-08, 15:12

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by tpowell.ca

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I don't think there is a driver for the ESS688. It's non-PnP, just assign the resources to it and it's... there. Some versions don't have jumpers and require initialization (eg: exceedingly rare Compaq-branded cards like mine). http://hardwarium.ru/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/es68821.jpg I can't …

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D - what's the resolution of the original textures?

Posted on 2019-03-08, 15:03

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by tpowell.ca

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Also a little correction: This game does not have a 8:5 aspect ratio (even in 320x200 mode) but 4:3 just like the majority of 320x200/Mode 13h games. It's because the 320x200 resolution was intended to be aspect ratio corrected to 4/3 (just like 320x240 or 640x480) since its pixel aspect ratio is …

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D - what's the resolution of the original textures?

Posted on 2019-03-08, 13:16

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by tpowell.ca

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If you extract the TILES0XX.ART files from DUKE3D.GRP you can inspect all textures/sprites of the game by using EDITART.EXE. All of them are 320x200 (or smaller). They typically look like this in EDITART (with corrected aspect ratio): tile1.jpg Interesting, and agreed. I really would have thought …

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D - what's the resolution of the original textures?

Posted on 2019-03-07, 21:31

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by tpowell.ca

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leileilol wrote: It's a bit complicated here and I'll try to explain as simple as I can on why. Considering the 2D stuff, Duke3D's "native res" is 320x200 What do you mean by "native res" ?

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Re: Help me choose a sound card ?

Posted on 2019-03-07, 19:31

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by tpowell.ca

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gdjacobs wrote: What do the ESS cards have for FM synth? Except for the ES688 which usually uses an external OPL3 chip, they all have ESSFM which is IMO the best alternative to a real Yamaha OPL chip.

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D - what's the resolution of the original textures?

Posted on 2019-03-07, 16:28

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Higher resolutions allow you to resolve more detail at a distance, regardless of texture resolution. With a low texture resolution and high display resolution, it means is that you can stand farther away from textured objects and still see the texture detail in all its lo-res glory. For example. try …

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