Re: Roland SC-88 MIDI synth and Dosbox-x

Posted on 2021-12-21, 18:54

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After you enter those setting in the dosbox.conf file you then need to manually configure the game to use General MIDI from each game's setup program. SCUMMVM works completely differently than DOSBox. It replaces the game's engine, while DOSBox gives you a virtual DOS environment to run the original …

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Re: Roland SC-88 MIDI synth and Dosbox-x

Posted on 2021-12-21, 17:48

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https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/Guide%3ASetting-up- … OSBox%E2%80%90X Try this, I'm not sure on the mididevice vs midiconfig in DOSBox-X. [midi] mpu401 = uart mpubase = 330 mididevice = win32 midiconfig = 1 samplerate = 44100 mpuirq = 9

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Re: Performance of a P3-s 1.4 GHz & GeForce 4 Ti 4400 combo

Posted on 2021-12-19, 15:15

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Max Payne 2 is a DX9 game, while the Geforce 4400 is a DX8 card. NOLF2 is a DX8.1 game and its specs are a match for the machine. What drivers are you using for your GPU? With the Geforce FX series, the 44/45 are recommended over newer drivers, so you might want to try downgrading to those or even …

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Re: Retrostation PC not available in the US

Posted on 2021-12-18, 15:24

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I see, thanks. My reason for being mildly interested in this is that it's small enough to conveniently take with me when I'm working away from home, and it runs PC games as well as emulators. I know there are many other similar systems, but the thing that attracted me to this is just that all the …

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Re: Retrostation PC not available in the US

Posted on 2021-12-17, 21:23

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This is the same hardware as the GMK NucBox that ETA Prime reviewed. You can look at those videos to get an idea of its performance. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=eta+prime+GMK+NucBox They are available on the US Amazon for ~$200 if you search for "GMK mini PC J4125" and are …

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Vibra PNP in DOS

Posted on 2021-12-12, 18:09

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So I just pulled up a pin out of the ISA slot and checked some voltage. Sure enough I am getting 5v, -5v, -12v but on the 12v pin I am only getting around 4.2v. I guess I need to do some digging to figure out if that is fixable or not. I should mention I do get a good 12v at the molex connectors. I …

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Vibra PNP in DOS

Posted on 2021-12-12, 14:00

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Have you tried out Unisound yet? Just have a SET BLASTER statement with the ports you want, then run the Unisound executable. I have it working great with a Vibra 16 in my DOS PC. It scans the ISA bus for cards it supports and is then able to initialize them and it then exits without leaving …

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Re: Revisiting an x86-based alternative to the Raspberry Pi, optimized for retro gaming

Posted on 2021-12-07, 01:21

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I wasn't thinking of just Nvidia/AMD GPUs, maybe some low end smartphone chip can be interfaced through PCI and supports the right things ? Anything low end these days would be much better than what's been made at the time and it would never compete with crypto miners (nobody mines on gt730 cards …

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Re: Question about USB on motherboard

Posted on 2021-12-05, 16:45

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Gotcha. By chance, do you know if the AWE64 Gold has such a header? I don’t think so… so I’d have to put another sound card in here, a PCI one. I'm not aware of a revision of the card that does. But some do have an MB_Pro connector which was designed to be used with a Modem Blaster. These expose …

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Re: Question about USB on motherboard

Posted on 2021-12-05, 16:19

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According to your motherboard's manual, their arent' any USB or AC97 Audio headers on it. https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-6VXC7-4X-P-rev-50/support#support-manual You can use a USB add-on card that will give you additional ports on the back as well as provide an internal header. For the …

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Re: Revisiting an x86-based alternative to the Raspberry Pi, optimized for retro gaming

Posted on 2021-12-05, 16:10

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Welcome back and thank you for researching your ideas. There was a lot of noise to signal ratio in the previous thread, but I feel a lot of what you are presenting was brought up as issues there. If you are going for a mini system, having any type of standard slot even DIMMs would eliminate the …

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Re: Midi Sound - Nforce 2 - Auriel Vortex 2

Posted on 2021-12-04, 18:04

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Is the sound actually working in pure DOS mode? I tried last year with a Nforce 3 board without luck. The DOS driver would appear to initialize, but the sound in games wouldn't work. My understanding is that Nforce boards are missing a piece that allows the lower IRQ range to map to the higher ones …

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Re: Windows 98 veeeeeeery slow!

Posted on 2021-11-28, 16:27

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For future installs, boot off a boot disk and then set up the HDD, and copy the files from the Win98 CDROM into a directory on the HDD and install from the HDD. I went through a cycle of multiple installations trying to get a combination of multi soundcards working correctly. I used an SD to IDE …

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Re: Best Way To Create an XP backup image/reinstall?

Posted on 2021-11-27, 00:16

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Is the machine still bootable after the driver corruption? If so you could try doing a sysprep /generalize which will remove all of the hardware configurations without needing to reinstall the software. It's made run after setting up a system as a base image that will then be imaged to other …

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Re: Do i need ISA bus for retro pc/gaming ?

Posted on 2021-11-25, 01:29

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According to the Data Sheet, the ES1878 connects via ISA. Do you plan on still using the laptop, or will this new machine replace it? That CPU and the sound chip should allow you to play most things a P3 with a PCI sound card would have issues with.

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Re: Do i need ISA bus for retro pc/gaming ?

Posted on 2021-11-24, 23:31

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It depends on the games you want to play. ISA is desired for sound cards in real DOS mode. But if you are looking to play late gen DOS games that run fine through Windows, a PCI sound card might work just fine for you. P3s have more limited options for controlling speed for older speed-sensitive …

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Re: MS encourages emulation

Posted on 2021-11-20, 15:14

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Beyond economic recovery means a practical case of being in the public domain for individuals (fair use) but not corporate interests. When something is considered worthless garbage after 5-10 years (aka after support ends and the realistic ability to purchase new ends) there is definitely a case to …

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Re: another xp build, some help please

Posted on 2021-11-19, 12:59

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Ivy Bridge (Intel 7 series chipset) does still "support" Windows XP, but there might not be drivers available for all motherboards. In fact, I don't think I found any while I was doing research before building the PC. Sandy Bridge (Intel 6 series) still has full driver support and is fully …

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Re: another xp build, some help please

Posted on 2021-11-19, 04:42

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are 1155 sockets going to have the better performing cpu's over 775 sockets from a single core perspective for gaming? I went from a Q6600 to an i7 2600K back in the day and it was a huge performance increase. You can get an unlocked K series processor and underclock if you ever run into speed …

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Re: another xp build, some help please

Posted on 2021-11-19, 03:27

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For the prices you are listing, have you thought about LGA1155? They are very inexpensive right now and would be able to handle Crysis. They were still supported by XP so drivers shouldn't be an issue. It works out to costing less, while giving you the experience you remember. Not the one you …

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