Hostile Waters - Antaeus Rising crash

Posted on 2025-03-15, 14:52

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by SkyHawk

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Hostile Waters - Antaeus Rising runs flawlessly on 2.82.5 and previous, and has crash-to-desktop issues rendering the game unplayable on 2.83 and newer. Only certain scenes in the game crash, the most easily testable being the intro cinematic itself. I have not been able to get debug logging out of …

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PCMCIA/PCCard XTIDE Option Bootrom card?

Posted on 2025-02-04, 22:50

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by SkyHawk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I'm in a conversation where someone with an old notebook PC wants larger drive support. This is outside my wheelhouse, but would it be feasible for an inexpensive-ish homebrew PCCard with an EEPROM and a bit of wiring/logic to insert XTIDE as an Option ROM to the system BIOS at boot-time? That …

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Re: MUNT Reverb configuration

Posted on 2024-11-23, 07:15

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by SkyHawk

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How can I NOT fix the reverb? If I check "reverb enabled" the sysex is just ignored on MUNT, if I uncheck it, there is no reverb at all. On Windows at least, there are 3 settings for the Reverb Enabled option in the GUI: * Off - should be self-explanatory. * Half - Displayed as a solid square in …

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Re: DreamBlaster X16GS - MT32 questions

Posted on 2024-11-10, 21:57

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You have two scenarios for MT-32 "emulation" on such a device. For games that do not reconfigure the MT-32 or use custom instruments, you can get a (very) rough approximation using a soundbank. Even if the soundbank is exquisitely accurate, the MT-32 responds to per-channel volume settings …

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Re: MT-32 is no longer receiving data

Posted on 2024-02-27, 23:43

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Yes, it was working previously. I disconnected it to move the PC, and when I reconnected it, it no longer works. Very strange how it stopped working. I don't think there's a hardware fault, as the MT-32 comes on and looks normal. It just doesn't receive any data. I got munt working, but it's not …

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Re: MT-32 is no longer receiving data

Posted on 2023-12-23, 05:39

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I presume there's no native Windows game that will run on Windows 10 that can use the MT-32, hence you're presumably running DOSBox with MIDI passthrough? Perhaps the Windows enumeration for devices has changed, and DOSBox is no longer sending to the correct MIDI interface? edit: Whoops, obviously …

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Re: Star Control 2 Ultrasound patch?

Posted on 2023-10-09, 20:23

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in Marvin \ Software

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Hrm. The only real conclusion in that thread is the problem is fixed by running on DMA 5, and even that conclusion is challenged. I don't remember reconfiguring the GUS to get the game to run properly, but this was a *long*-ass time ago, so I don't fully trust my memory. To add insult to injury, I …

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Star Control 2 Ultrasound patch?

Posted on 2023-10-09, 19:20

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Hi all, I've recently become aware of the PicoGUS Project and it's compatibility list. They state they have an issue with Star Control 2. This gives me pause because I clearly remember having a bizarro random-sounds-playing bug when I played Star Control 2 back in the day on my actual Gravis …

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Re: Wing Commander 1 & 2 CM32L problem

Posted on 2023-07-30, 17:20

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It sounds like SysEx is not reliably making it to the CM-32L somehow.... What kind of bare metal is this running on? Wing Commander is not known to have SysEx timing issues, and the CM-32L shouldn't have the buffer overrun problems of the rev0 units. Physically there's nothing magical about SysEx, …

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Re: Wing Commander 1 & 2 CM32L problem

Posted on 2023-07-30, 04:54

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Some games have custom instruments that sound "incorrect" on certain generations of LA32 hardware, yes. To my knowledge, Wing Commander and Wing Commander 2 are not among them. And Munt (typically, at least) reproduces these differences correctly. There's a particular drum-like sound used by Master …

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Re: Wing Commander 1 & 2 CM32L problem

Posted on 2023-07-29, 00:47

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I have a real CM-32L and can confirm that it does not play right on the real hardware, thats because I found this thread whilst looking into what is causing my issue. :) Explosions, asteroids and weapons all sound odd. I don't have real hardware, but I have played Wing Commander and Wing Commander …

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Re: Roland MT-32 CM-32L upgrades?

Posted on 2023-05-26, 23:33

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So where would one of these frankensteins end up? Audio quality and game compatibility comparable to CM-32L? Just with a nice front panel interface?

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Re: Roland MT-32 CM-32L upgrades?

Posted on 2023-05-26, 18:24

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And here's a different listing that *is* a rev0 MT-32 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/285261478572?hash=item426ae8baac:g:Q~gAAOSwcqlkTpgQ&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4PZ%2FPGcxIXoHD373kFb8qWHdGPu%2B%2BM0mPP2xA2Z5PE5cCxFlp4p5t%2Fgo%2FbaSHdisVplVFQeh52sA3Ru290VAwr98XUoOsup3aY4bbYsLvw% …

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Roland MT-32 CM-32L upgrades?

Posted on 2023-05-26, 18:18

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There's a bunch of these having been sold on eBay https://www.ebay.ca/itm/285243529321?hash=item4269d6d869:g:dMIAAOSw3MtkQEbx&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4ELLvR%2BUFss%2Bq%2FpGHCg5OzqN9pa%2FLUhIZ%2B13NWiNo6s% …

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Re: Master of Orion with hardware MT-32 dropping notes?

Posted on 2023-05-03, 06:09

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And for today's necromantic trick, a response to my own thread! Now that I'm running MoO against MUNT with 96 partials, it's pretty plainly obvious that the GNN music (and some other compositions in the game) drastically exceeds the 32 partials that the real hardware has. I'm guessing CM-32L …

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Re: MT-32 Editor- a new timbre editor and patch librarian for 64-bit Windows

Posted on 2023-04-23, 16:28

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by SkyHawk

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Prior to v0.9.3a, MT-32 Editor was initialising and then discarding the virtual MIDI connection each time a MIDI data packet was received from the MIDI In port. I suspect the Active Sense messages from the SY99 may have been triggering this initialisation/discard process multiple times per second …

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Re: MT-32 Editor- a new timbre editor and patch librarian for 64-bit Windows

Posted on 2023-04-22, 23:23

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It would be interesting nevertheless why I cannot access the MT-32 midi driver directly because I believed that the munt panel is just something like a monitor for the mt-32 driver, not something that really enables using it, because Dosbox games set to mt-32 also played music without having the …

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Re: MT-32 Editor- a new timbre editor and patch librarian for 64-bit Windows

Posted on 2023-04-22, 20:08

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To Elaborate, I'm running * MUNT - Tools -> New MIDI Port -> loopMIDI port. * MT-32 Editor with MIDI Out set to loopMIDI port and Hardware MT-32 Connected enabled * MidiPlayer5 (in lieu of a keyboard) set to output to loopMIDI port.

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Re: MT-32 Editor- a new timbre editor and patch librarian for 64-bit Windows

Posted on 2023-04-22, 19:48

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You're right. I think there's something wrong with how MT-32 Editor is opening and holding it's MIDI connection to MUNT. Using LoopMIDI as I described a few posts ago I'm able to get what I think is a working arrangement, but I don't have any kind of MIDI keyboard to test with.

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Re: MT-32 Editor- a new timbre editor and patch librarian for 64-bit Windows

Posted on 2023-04-22, 19:10

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Order of operations is important. Start the MUNT interface *first* Then MT32Edit Then add your external MIDI interface to MUNT.

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