Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2020-07-06, 04:01

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in Marvin \ Sound

I'm getting a lot of crackling with the MIDI/some instruments seem like they're playing way louder than they're supposed to. Any idea how to fix that? Tertz mentioned using YMF7x4Utilities, but I have an English copy of Windows 98 installed so I'm not getting readable text when I try to run it. ( …

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Re: Custom BIOS for PCem/86box? n00b question

Posted on 2020-06-30, 10:10

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I have to say yes but has to be same generations new stuff won't work due to patent restrictions. Once upon a time I renamed a server BIOS as a desktop board BIOS supported by the emulator to push the ram limit boundary for the generation emulation. Just filename not bios internal modification. It …

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Re: Soundfonts that mimic old hardware (SC-55, DX50XG, AWE64 Gold)

Posted on 2020-06-30, 09:59

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Rawit wrote on 2020-06-18, 18:54: Here you go: https://filebin.net/b2rs6c0exg7rb1sx didn't work just wants me to upload

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-06-30, 09:38

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in Marvin \ Sound

PCI version would be good too not much out there these days especially daughter board support.

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First video game ever to use collision checking

Posted on 2020-06-24, 18:29

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in Console & Arcade Emulation

Its completely different from the usual atari 2600 games. It cannot be completed and it doesn't go on forever. And its Science Fiction. Here go check it out: http://www.virtualatari.org/soft.php?soft=Solaris

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Re: What was your 90s nickname?

Posted on 2020-06-07, 08:20

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Mine was no comment such questions shouldn't be asked in public as it is a risk of secret question answers.

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Re: Abit VP6

Posted on 2020-06-05, 11:39

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Lovely motherboard—congratulations! I really like the GoldenOrbs, too. How about some Quake3 for starters, with and without SMP. I think there are no Apollo Pro133A results in the quake3 smp-scaling thread , so having your results would be interesting! Thats worth the effort I will be delighted to …

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Re: Abit VP6

Posted on 2020-06-05, 11:33

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in Marvin \ System Specs

kalohimal wrote on 2020-06-05, 00:32: Using CF card for Windows swap space is not a good idea. It will kill the CF card in no time. Good point but considering 2gb ram with an OS that would probably use up 3/4 running a 3D game I'd probably be alright considering its just a casual thing and not a …

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Re: PCEm. Another PC emulator.

Posted on 2020-06-05, 08:25

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I think the sound issues of windows Guest on this emulator would be fixed with a remote pc connection to the Host pc. All emulators without this are prone to audio issues. Perhaps aLinux alternative would appeal?

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Re: Abit VP6

Posted on 2020-06-04, 17:33

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in Marvin \ System Specs

At this time, I'd like to ask the Vogons community what would you like me to test on it. It runs all versions of windows from from 95 to windows 7 x32 so perhaps if you just want to know if something works that your considering building something similar please comment about it and I will try it …

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Re: Windows 3.1 / 9x games that require Quicktime

Posted on 2020-06-04, 15:21

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Carmen San Diego I remember used QuickTime, played that way back in the 2000's. There's also Where In Time Is Carmen San Diego?

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Abit VP6 Dual p3

Posted on 2020-06-02, 20:08

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I have posted about it in the beginning but I didn't explain the whole adventure. When it was released I wanted it. In 2003 I had a pentium 233mhz socket 7 Triton v2 motherboard system with 32mb ram and windows xp ... it sucked with its 4 platter 32gb hard disk. Seeing this VP6 online at the time …

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Re: Currently no emulators for?

Posted on 2020-06-01, 16:37

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leileilol wrote on 2018-04-04, 22:59: Mupen64Plus with the SoftGraphic plugin is pretty nice. N64 looking properly filtered, filtered, properly sized screen buffers, Indy working, etc. I got it and when i saw the text mode stuff i thought nah needs a gui frontend like mame stuff

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Re: Atari 2600 Games

Posted on 2020-06-01, 16:27

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in Console & Arcade Emulation

Atari was great it didn't have memory so the games never ended. They just got too hard to play. Its like life really.

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Re: Compact Flash Card Help (sorry, I've looked and looked)

Posted on 2020-05-31, 18:26

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in DOS

one way to format a CF card with fat16 is with virtual pc 2004. (not 2004 sp1) It allows real disk access as well as virtual. load up a virtual machine with dos connect it to the cf card format away and it will boot on a physical machine at post. But that means using windows xp i would assume. Not …

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Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages

Posted on 2020-05-30, 12:02

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Managed to get 12 Mb worth of SIMMs for the 386 by Samsung. Now waiting for them to arrive... If all goes well, it will have 16 Mb. Speaking of which, I'm calling that rig "it" because I don't have a name for it yet. P2 is, for obvious reasons, called "Shaman", while his younger sister (a modern …

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Re: WebOne - proxy for old browsers to make them Web 2.0-capable

Posted on 2020-05-29, 14:38

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can it be chained? well i have some ideas anyhow. What I'd like to do is chain it from TOR > WebOne > LAN A plugin model would be useful for the development of anti adware, spyware, banners Etc to improve retro performance with features i'd like to see are alternatives of Peerblock (which has a …

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Re: Currently no emulators for?

Posted on 2020-05-28, 20:44

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leileilol wrote on 2018-03-10, 13:09: Old satellite reciever boxes. MPEG2 patent's gone, so those boxes could probably get emulated and fed a faux signal of like a twitch stream or something else made of MPEG2 Now THAT is a idea especially for the environment A+

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Re: Best video card with Dos / Win 3.11 / Win 98 support

Posted on 2020-05-28, 20:03

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in Marvin \ Video

You could always go for a radeon 7000 pci, since you only have pci slots - I have one here I keep to test things with, it has DVI and VGA out and is PCI is why it works so well for a tester card. They can be had dirt cheap all day long on ebay. http://compare.ebay.com/like/310385591118?var=lv<yp= …

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Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages

Posted on 2020-05-28, 19:31

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in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Managed to get 12 Mb worth of SIMMs for the 386 by Samsung. Now waiting for them to arrive... If all goes well, it will have 16 Mb. Speaking of which, I'm calling that rig "it" because I don't have a name for it yet. P2 is, for obvious reasons, called "Shaman", while his younger sister (a modern …

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