Re: Best 4:3 LCD monitor for MS-DOS / Win9x gaming?

Posted on 2024-07-03, 11:22

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by Oetker

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I use a 1600x1200 LCD (Dell 2007fp). However, like many such panels, it converts 70Hz to 60Hz and doesn't properly scale 320x200 as it confuses this with 720x400. It looks fine, but if you want something perfect you need an (expensive, gaming-centric) scaler and a modern high refresh rate LCD.

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-06, 20:31

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Just to make sure: the supposed SC-55 'mk I' set I might have found (the file names match and file sizes seem to make sense but extensions are .ic23, .ic30 etc., maybe a MAME thing?) is not usable and cannot be converted? In that case I'll toss it. These can be renamed, but the set you have is …

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Re: SoundBlaster onboard interfaces and jumper and wavetable and other questions ...

Posted on 2024-04-16, 08:27

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4) X16GS is similar to SC55, for mt32 you'd want a wp32 mccake.

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Re: Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55mkII emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-10, 20:06

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Falcosoft wrote on 2024-04-10, 13:17: On my 4 core AMD Nuked-SC55 eats 30% -40% while Munt in integer mode eats 5-10% maximum with the same Midi file (even with doubled 64 maximum partials). What kind of CPU is that? On my 5900x it's 0-1%.

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Re: Help With Roland SC-55 Sound Output

Posted on 2024-03-22, 11:45

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by Oetker

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The sc-55 should definitely show things happening on its screen. I'd connect a pair of headphones directly to the unit, make sure you can hear its built-in demo songs, and then try getting midi files from the PC playing. Finally, tackle routing the sc-55 output to your speakers.

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Re: Help With Roland SC-55 Sound Output

Posted on 2024-03-20, 14:33

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Does the sc-55 actually receive midi data from the PC, i.e. can you see anything happening on its screen? The sc-55's output should not be treated as a mic, it's line level. Run it to the line in on the Asus.

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Re: Do discrete sound cards have any gaming utility in modern computers?

Posted on 2024-03-07, 13:05

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by Oetker

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I never buy top-end motherboards but in my experience the onboard sound can still be noisy with regards to 'computer noise' due to GPU load, scrolling, etc. However to fix that I prefer a USB DAC. Recently I've been using a €10 Apple usb-c DAC for my headsphones and it sounds great and also acts as …

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Re: Windows 98 PC powers off only with Doom 2

Posted on 2024-02-23, 08:38

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by Oetker

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Are you running the game from within Win98? What if you run the game from pure DOS mode?

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Re: What hasn’t been done?

Posted on 2024-02-05, 07:34

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by Oetker

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'Hardware-emulated' video cards, like the picoGUS is for sound cards. I.e. a port of pcem's Voodoo emulation that runs as an expansion card.

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Re: Artifacting in Duke 3D - Voodoo 5 5500

Posted on 2023-12-19, 07:50

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Voodoo 3 cards have the same issue, there it was solved by tweaking a vbios setting. Voodoo3, shaky picture and snow For me, it was also fixed by using http://rayer.g6.cz/programm/programe.htm#MTRRLFBE in WP or WT mode.

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Re: The Soundblaster DSP project

Posted on 2023-10-13, 08:04

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by Oetker

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Does the patched firmware also fix the 'type 2' hanging note bug? And can you explain how the presence of the CT1747 chip fixes the type 1 bug?

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Re: Why does Commander Keen 4-6 hardware scrolling glitch on ATI (Mach) PCI video cards?

Posted on 2023-09-06, 20:37

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https://fabiensanglard.net/ega/ this includes a quote from Carmack about one of the workarounds.

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Re: Issue with Voodoo 3 at 320x200

Posted on 2023-08-28, 07:01

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I know this is an old thread but I have been struggling with this issue as well, on my PCI Voodoo 3 3000. Horizontal lines skipping around in Duke3D vga mode, and a staticy image in vesa mode. Also, lines in Quake. The lines are fixed by using MTRRLFBE in either 'WP' or 'WT' mode. Uncached and 'WC' …

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Re: Graphics card drivers required in MS-DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2023-08-15, 13:11

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Generally, you don't need video card drivers for DOS. S3DRun.exe is a tool to allow S3D API games to run on newer Virge chipsets than for which they were originally developed. You'll know it if you need it. No idea about the other.exe. Sometimes it's useful to use generic tools such as univbe/ …

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Re: Quake 2 Remastered has been released!

Posted on 2023-08-12, 07:27

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What's also interesting is that they slightly improved the 3d models; no more swimming verts I wonder if this implies the source meshes weren't lost, and everything was moved over to skeletal animation. Either that or some serious AI corrected all the deficiencies. Yeah they had (some) source …

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Re: Original Xbox CPU Upgrade (Pentium III)

Posted on 2023-08-11, 22:51

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You, and some vogoners might appreciate JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023 https://blog.ret2.io/2023/08/09/jtag-hacking-the-original-xbox-2023/ https://github.com/Necrosys/x86-JTAG-Information Author of above also did cpu upgrade using same N64freak interposer (https://github.com/N64-Freak/ …

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Re: Quake 2 Remastered has been released!

Posted on 2023-08-11, 22:29

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It amuses me the N64 levels are selectable like with Night Dive Quake 1. Does that also include the funny music Aubrey Hodges made for Quake 2 on the N64? Yes it includes that music. Another awesome thing is that they somehow managed to re render the cutscenes in modern resolution. What's also …

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Re: HOWTO: Possible Lagless VSYNC for PC/DOS Emulator Devs (implemented in WinUAE/etc), via beam-raced tearingless VSYNC

Posted on 2023-07-05, 15:52

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Thanks for your detailed explanation. Two questions: 1. How did the original g-sync work, did it use a buffer in the monitor or something, as monitors were expensive... 2. What is the interaction between setting v-sync on/off in games and a vrr monitor, I've read conflicting opinions on what to …

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Re: Darker Image in Unreal when playing in opengl mode mode compared running the game in Nglide

Posted on 2023-05-19, 07:50

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Not even that! Voodoo Graphics is what GlideDrv was originally made for. The optimizations done for the Voodoo2 are when the visual regressions start with multitexturing darkening the game considerably to Quake2-amounts of dark (later patches shift the lightmaps up with a clamp so it's GLQuake-ish …

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Re: Is any of these two slockets P III Coppermine compatible?

Posted on 2023-05-15, 07:03

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by Oetker

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The CPU in the third picture is a Coppermine something, not a PPGA (Mendocino) Celeron, for what it's worth.

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