Re: SSH2DOS - Updated for 2021 standards
Posted on 2021-04-19, 08:27
Thanks for doing this. I use SSH2DOS, and it'll be one less inconvenience to deal with every time I upgrade my Linux systems.
Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)
Posted on 2021-04-17, 03:04
The Roland SCC-1 demo disk includes a program that plays some included sample MIDI files. The program locks up without an intelligent MPU-401, but with SoftMPU, it complains that port 330 (or wherever SoftMPU is configured), is occupied by another piece of hardware. Probably not within the scope of …
Re: Have you opened your SC-55 to check the battery inside?
Posted on 2021-04-17, 02:36
EDIT : That is not to say that CR2016 were never a thing, just that I was not able to find conclusive evidence of their existence . EDIT2: Even the SC-55 manual says (page 86) that the battery type used is, explicitly, a lithium CR2025 . http://cdn.roland.com/assets/media/pdf/SC-55_OM.pdf That's …
Re: Have you opened your SC-55 to check the battery inside?
Posted on 2021-04-17, 01:42
ED: Double.
Re: Have you opened your SC-55 to check the battery inside?
Posted on 2021-04-17, 01:38
OK, so apparently not all coin cells in this format are lithium batteries. There were 2016 Alkaline cells made, and that's probably what's in the SC-55, and why they're leaking. I never heard about Alkaline 2016 cells being a thing. Do you have some more info about those ? Wikipedia thinks this is …
Re: Fallout DOS Version Sound Card Support
Posted on 2021-04-17, 01:14
I'm going to be boorish and necro this 12 year old thread. This thread is the first link that comes up on a Google search for "Fallout sound problems". If you have Daggerfall, run SOUND.EXE and configure a digital sound card, then look in the resulting HMISET.CFG file for the "[DIGITAL]" section. …
Re: Help me identify this early 90's car racing game
Posted on 2021-03-19, 22:42
konc wrote on 2021-03-19, 18:59: Deathtrack kinda fits the description, although it also supports CGA & Hercules and is not exactly Formula cars Yep that's the one. Thanks!
Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards
Posted on 2021-03-19, 16:39
What cards have you guys used that work reliably on old boards? I have a card with a VIA controller and it isn't even detected by 440BX or AMD 750. It does work on newer chipsets like KT266 though. You need a card with NEC chip, not VIA. This. ALi and VIA are the K-Mart of semiconductors. Stay away …
Help me identify this early 90's car racing game
Posted on 2021-03-19, 16:04
It was a futuristic competitive car racing game on a track, with Formula-I type cars, probably released around 1990. It may have had the word "track" in the name, but I don't recall. The cars had James Bond-style weapons like missiles and oil slicks and whatnot. That's about all I can remember. I …
Re: Have you opened your SC-55 to check the battery inside?
Posted on 2021-03-11, 16:13
OK, so apparently not all coin cells in this format are lithium batteries. There were 2016 Alkaline cells made, and that's probably what's in the SC-55, and why they're leaking.
Re: Have you opened your SC-55 to check the battery inside?
Posted on 2021-03-11, 16:10
Is the DS-330 like an SC-55 in a different package?
Programming DOS MIDI file player
Posted on 2021-01-15, 03:08
This is an extremely humbling experience. Programming for the MPU-401 and dealing with the MIDI file format (*.MID file) is no joke. I consider myself a pretty good programmer, (apparently not) and this stuff was a real challenge. I've programmed device drivers, commercially, on X86, 68K and MIPS …
Re: GM games that sound better on MT-32
Posted on 2021-01-15, 02:42
To put yourself in the composer's shoes and say, " well I believe *I* know better than the original composer, and believe if I changed this instrument or that, and took that one out entirely, and so on and so forth.... then I end up with something even better-sounding ", then that is perfectly …
Re: GM games that sound better on MT-32
Posted on 2021-01-05, 00:09
Are you doing this to change the default channels, OP? https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/roland-mt-32-set-midi-receive-channels/ Use the following procedure to change the default receive channels of the MT-32 from channels 2-9 and 10 to channels 1-8 and 10: 1) While holding down MASTER …
Re: GM games that sound better on MT-32
Posted on 2021-01-04, 06:10
I think some games composed for GM (presumably an SC-55) tend to sound better on an MT-32. Two games that come to mind, are Duke Nukem 3D and Quest for Glory IV . What I mean by this, is selecting GM in the games setup, and then running it with an MT-32. If you have both devices, try this out and …
GM games that sound better on MT-32
Posted on 2021-01-04, 06:05
I think some games composed for GM (presumably an SC-55) tend to sound better on an MT-32. Two games that come to mind, are Duke Nukem 3D and Quest for Glory IV . What I mean by this, is selecting GM in the games setup, and then running it with an MT-32. If you have both devices, try this out and …
Re: Have you opened your SC-55 to check the battery inside?
Posted on 2021-01-04, 03:01
Crazy. I've never seen a coin cell leak like this.
Re: IBM Cassette BASIC
Posted on 2020-11-11, 04:39
I don't know specifically, but the Commodore/Spectrum and ham radio communities have software that does it.
Re: IBM Cassette BASIC
Posted on 2020-10-27, 01:44
I've only ever seen the diagnostic tape, but there are utilities that will let you dump software to tape using a sound card.
Re: Apple prices
Posted on 2020-10-05, 12:57
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