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Re: Modern 8088 laptop

Posted on 2023-05-30, 00:02

in DOS
The stupidest thing about that 8088 laptop? It has a "Windows" key on the keyboard!! How dumb can the manufacturer be to include that? Of course, it is just a cheap "modern" keyboard, but I digress. To bring back the "genuine" MS-DOS experience, it has to have a mechanical 83-key keyboard with …

Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2023-05-10, 04:05

Gave it a quick try on a G41/ICH7 Core2 and a B360 CoffeeLake 9th Gen system, played Epic Pinball perfectly on both. I'm super-impressed that you've got a running bare-metal DOS system on Coffee Lake system. (The "newest" system I can get both compatible DOS video and SBEMU working together on is …

Re: nostalgia midlife crisis

Posted on 2023-04-19, 03:03

in Milliways
A whole lot of the emulation code I have looked at is nowhere near as optimized as it could be. Most code I have looked at for that matter is very very slow compared to how fast it could be running if the programmers were interested at all in actually optimizing the code for speed. But, they're not …

Re: nostalgia midlife crisis

Posted on 2023-04-15, 02:05

in Milliways
Generations before didn't have experienced something equal, I suppose. They had experienced ups and downs, sure, but it wasn't comparable. They had a goal, things that were continous (there was continuity, even during cold war). Nowadays, everything is changing (so fast), nothing to hold on to. …

Re: nostalgia midlife crisis

Posted on 2023-04-14, 00:16

in Milliways
Truth is none of this will matter in 100 years. You are correct, but not for the reasons you think. In 100 years, all of the old hardware and software will be able to be put into an FPGA chip unimaginable today, and render the original hardware truly obsolete. Such a task will be small potatoes for …

Re: nostalgia midlife crisis

Posted on 2023-04-13, 02:51

in Milliways
I turned 30 years old last year and looking forward to my birthday but I didn't do much this decade for my 20s and now I am starting into looking back. I used to collect maybe hoard everything I found, but now I feel dead inside, losing that happy feeling as I saw the rise of the internet at such …

Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2023-04-11, 11:42

Interestingly, if OCP plays a 16-bit .WAV file, it may feed the sound card with 16-bit unsigned data; that's something sbemu isn't expecting - needs a little adjustment... Ah... this provides excellent insight. This behavior explains the "static" I thought I was experiencing with Open Cubic player. …

Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2023-04-08, 04:25

Any ideas about this behaviour? Cubic Player / Open Cubic Player - music plays ok, but the screen is jumping like crazy (all modes) Yours is second report of this behavior in Cubic. Be grateful it runs at all for you; I get only static, but no screen corruption. Can't get its SB drivers to work …

Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2023-04-04, 13:17

Yeah, I fixed the spedup problem of epic pinball and also some bugs of the emulation, that might help with the OMF sounds. The games runs on my T540p but games speed is super fast and I got K.O.ed by the computer within seconds. lol there should be unknown compatibility issues for your PC, but it …

Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2023-04-04, 06:31

tercio was using the temp release version that fixes Epic Pinball, did you use that too? I tested the game of ver 2.1, using /t5 and SB Pro in setup, and no problems found on my TP T540p, i7 4710MQ Haswell CPU. I'll do more test later. Epic Pinball worked fine on my HDA. Several versions of SBEMU …

Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2023-04-04, 01:11

One more test that I did tonight. I went back to the Optiplex 3050m system and replaced the CPU: instead of the one I tried at first (i5-6600T) I installed a i5-7600T. That was the only change I made. SBEMU does not work at all anymore. It gives me: internal buffer overflow system halted. After …

Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2023-04-04, 01:07

Had to notice, however, that there are games that won't be cheated so easily: Bleifuss ( English: Screamer ) isn't impressed by -x2, -x3 or whatever. I could make it run with hdpmi32's -v option, but have no idea why this works... Tried Screamer with HDMP32i.EXE from 3-4-23 and 3-30-23 with only …

Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2023-04-04, 00:59

One Must Fall2097 now works great in my eeepc 701!!! Care to detail how you got One Must Fall working? What is your HDA sound card and settings? I've tried many times with different settings and failed. This is what the latest SBEMU (beta2c) detects my Soundcard as: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation …

Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2023-04-03, 09:47

Some day now, probably in the year 2525, some old guy will log on to vogons and create a thread about how they made a new utility called VesaEmu :)) In the year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can survive, They may find: a wonderful VESAFIX DOS utility for borked vBIOS code, much as 2023 saw …

Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2023-04-03, 09:14

The test program included (Display Doctor 6.53 for DOS) recognizes the name of the chipset and says that supposedly it's VBE 1.2 compatible. But when going to the actual tests, they either don't run or crash. All 4-bit modes tests for instance won't start, and several 8-bit modes tests crash part …

Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2023-04-03, 09:07

Anyway, I added an optional numeric argument to hdpmi's -x option, working as "right shift" factor, so -x still restricts mem to 256mb, but -x1 changes that to 128mb, -x2 to 64mb and so on... System Shock is happy with -x2. Had to notice, however, that there are games that won't be cheated so …

Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2023-04-02, 04:25

Indeed it doesn't. With no SBEMU loaded, and sound disabled (otherwise it complains "can't find FM chip") indeed Duke3D ends up in that same blank screen. The same may happen with the other games that get a blank screen when launched in my tests above (Dune and Dune2) on this machine. They all work …

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