Re: What game made you upgrade to Windows 95 back in the day?
Posted on 2021-07-23, 20:07
I didn't transition to using Win95 much until KQ7 was released and I didn't have a choice if I wanted to play it fully.
Re: Roland SC-88 no audio output?
Posted on 2021-05-10, 15:37
I've mentioned this in other places here, but even my 2003 Edirol SD-20 had evidence of SMD cap leakage. I only found this when trying to figure out why I wasn't getting any audio from the analog outputs off the module. When I saw the dull grey and crumbly look of the solder at the base of the caps, …
Re: Synthesizers that came with video game music
Posted on 2021-04-22, 04:13
I suspect the video that was posted with the SD-20 for Duke3D didn't have the SD-20 set to GS mode. I noticed that the test music option in the setup, but seem to generate a GS reset because the SD-20 will show what mode it is using on the front of it. When it gets the correct reset message, it will …
Re: Synthesizers that came with video game music
Posted on 2021-04-21, 21:55
I have an MT-90s and I personally think it is much worse than my SD-20 is on the quality of the samples it contains. Also, I'm pretty sure Duke 3D doesn't sound like that on my SD-20. It is possible that they had that thing configured to some crazy levels before recording it. But yeah, I was NOT …
Re: Synthesizers that came with video game music
Posted on 2021-04-19, 17:03
I have an Edirol SD-20 and it does not have any demo songs on it. I got my SD-20 directly from Japan as they are cheaper and more plentiful over seas than here in the States.
Re: Have you opened your SC-55 to check the battery inside?
Posted on 2021-03-31, 16:37
Not a SC55 and not a battery... but there are other things that can leak too :/ The Korg AG-10 I got wasn't working, it receives MIDI data but doesn't output any audio, luckily the seller was honest enough and refunded me the money, I poked around a bit to see if I can find anything and well... …
Re: Record cutscene in xwing (GOG version)
Posted on 2021-03-30, 15:51
I just use OSB to record stuff from Dosbox. If I need to see it all, I just keep dosbox in a window and record from that window.
Re: MOD Players working on a 286 ?
Posted on 2021-03-26, 17:17
One of the first MOD players I know I used on my 286-16 was the WOW player as it supported my SB Pro back in the day that I had? I'm sure there were a few others I messed with but I do remember using that one quite a bit although I recall it wasn't a very accurate player.
Re: How is Simon the Sorcerer supposed to sound like on a Roland MT-32?
Posted on 2021-03-18, 23:02
I just installed my copy of Simon (CD Talk version) and on my old MT-32, I get the organ sound that is more full and rich like the other examples.
Re: Have you desolder things from trash boards to fix things
Posted on 2021-03-02, 22:53
All the time! I mainly work on older retro game consoles and so I use the parts from non-repairable donors to fix others. As an example, I might use parts from a damaged Atari 5200 to replace a broken component on an Atari 7800. I've removed IC sockets and things as well to keep on hand as one never …
Re: Frys electronics is Closing.
Posted on 2021-02-24, 16:48
I really like Frys! The problem is that there weren't any near me physically. But anytime I visited relatives where they had one nearby they would go out of their way to take me there so I could look at stuff and maybe even stock up. Quite a bit of my electornics gadgets I have on my bench came from …
Re: MT32-PI and Roland UM-ONE
Posted on 2021-02-23, 14:33
Yes I did notice it was 100 on start up but most games will lower it themselves. A manual rotary knob would be a great addition! Most Sierra games do this. In the game itself you have a volume adjustment and changing that should also show on the display for the MT-32 side of things. That is how it …
Re: Help with capturing audio (streaming) from DOSBox
Posted on 2021-02-22, 21:41
I don't use discord but I've had similar issues using OBS. But I found out what I have to do is make sure I have OBS listening to the What I Hear volume setting from my sound blaster mixer in order to get everything. I can also selectively tell it which audio streams to record from but that tends to …
Re: Edirol SD-20 - Not working or just quirks?
Posted on 2021-01-18, 17:10
I will see about taking it out of the loop and getting pics. There weren't a ton of caps as I recall but quite a few. I know that was a shotgun approach to things but as it wasn't working 100% anyway and I could see evidence of leakage on the board from some of them, I figured it couldn't hurt. …
Re: When did you purchase your first 386 / 486 Computer? Availability vs the early 90's affordability norm.
Posted on 2021-01-07, 17:06
First 486 was my Packard Bell 486SX-25 I purchased back in spring of 1994. Upgraded the CPU to a 486DX-66 about 6months later as I recall. My previous PC to this 486 was my semi beefy 286-16 AMD based system my folks and I put money together for back in 1988 -89.
Re: GM games that sound better on MT-32
Posted on 2021-01-07, 16:59
I've played around a bit with this using the old Roland utility to patch the Mt-32 to GM compatible mode. It does work and in some cases can sound pretty cool, but I've yet to hear it sound overall 'better' than an actual GS module does.
Re: Long expansion card flexing (LAPC-I, Voodoo 5, etc) in Tower style case
Posted on 2020-12-28, 16:49
I have an LAPC-I installed into a full size tower, however the case depth is too long so there aren't any end supports for full length cards. But I did notice that after about a year of use, that the LAPC-I was starting to have a noticeable warp to it from gravity. So as it turned out, I was able to …
Re: Edirol SD-20 - Not working or just quirks?
Posted on 2020-11-16, 20:21
t52sync wrote on 2020-11-14, 05:49: what caps did you replaced?.. All of the electrolytic caps I could find in it minus one of them as I didn't have the proper spec value on hand. Still working great for me!
Re: List of SC-55 clones/compatibles?
Posted on 2020-11-04, 17:55
That's a PCMCIA card, right? Incidentally, does anyone know anything about the PMA-5? It appears to use the headphone jack as a combi jack for headphones/line out. Kinda of a cool gadget, but if the sound is worse than the other SC-55's, I don't need to be a completist. :) I've played around with a …
Re: List of SC-55 clones/compatibles?
Posted on 2020-11-04, 15:30
Pretty sure that the MT-120, MT-200 and likely the MT-300 etc. are based on the original SC-55 sounds as well? I know that my MT-200 sounds the same as my SCB-55 I have? *There is one difference at least with my MT-200 compared to an SC-55. The MT-200 has a maximum tempo of 250bpm whereas I assume …
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