Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2023-11-23, 18:56

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by kahuna

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Has anyone tried the game with an actual MPU401 and MT32? It's an obscure enough game that it might be worth double checking to make sure it works correctly at all. Wish I owned some actual hardware that I could try it with, fingers crossed that someone here will be able and willing to test it out. …

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Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2023-10-26, 22:45

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by kahuna

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Thank you so much for taking the time to test this! First off, I would highly recommend playing through Superhero League of Hoboken if you have any kind of interest, it is in my opinion vastly underrated! :D Sure, I'll definitely give it a go, caught my eye for sure :) Kahuna, what does your setup …

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Re: K6INIT: AMD K6-3/3+/2(CXT) initialization driver for MS-DOS

Posted on 2023-10-19, 06:43

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I just discovered this great tool, amazing work! I have a K6-III+, I'm running DOS 7.1 and using UMBPCI. I'm loading it just by typing k6init at the prompt, it detects everything automatically. These are the results, all of them with Quake 1.06 running timedemo demo3 at 640x480 : - Before running …

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Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2023-10-19, 00:05

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by kahuna

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Reporting back. It works! well kinda... Using the MT32-Pi and SoftMPU, the voice over makes the music stop and hang. Hear the difference between Sound Blaster and MT-32 below. Apologies for the bad quality, I recorded this using my phone and then amplified it a bit. The legend.ini configuration file …

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Re: Prince of Persia sound behaviour

Posted on 2023-10-18, 15:41

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by kahuna

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Makes sense. First time I see something like this though, getting the sound effects from the mt32 instead of the Sound Blaster. Interesting 😀

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Prince of Persia sound behaviour

Posted on 2023-10-18, 08:00

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by kahuna

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Hi all, Just wanted to share a somewhat interesting behaviour I'm seeing running Prince of Persia. What I'm using is a K6-III+ based machine with a Sound Blaster 64 AWE GOLD that I have connected to an MT32-Pi. The Prince of Persia version I'm running is 1.3. The thing is, if I run the game without …

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Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2023-10-18, 07:34

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by kahuna

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I will test it tomorrow and report here. I wasn't familiar with this game, looks somewhat interesting 😀

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Re: Voodoo3 games in DOS

Posted on 2023-09-15, 02:48

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by kahuna

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Thanks for the tip appiah4!

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Re: Voodoo3 games in DOS

Posted on 2023-09-14, 06:23

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by kahuna

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Happy to report that it works now. I'm using a the glide2x.ovl from a previous driver package (1.03).

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Voodoo3 games in DOS

Posted on 2023-09-10, 07:08

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by kahuna

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Hi there, I'm trying to get Carmageddon working in real DOS mode with my Voodoo 3 3000 AGP using the Glide API. I'm using "voodo2c.exe" to launch the game. I was getting a message indicating that my Voodoo card was not detected. So, I copied over the glide2x.dll and glide2x.ovl files from the 3dfx …

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Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2023-09-07, 07:37

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Apologies, I tested it again and Comanche 2 works perfectly fine in both MT32 and General Midi with SoftMPU loaded. I guess, I didn't install the patch the first time I ran it, or I did something different that I don't recall. I actually tested, Comanche, Comanche 2 and Comanche 3; all working fine. …

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Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2023-08-29, 07:02

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by kahuna

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And… I just found one that doesn’t work when SoftMPU is loaded: Comanche 2 My PC freezes when I try to run it and SoftMPU is in RAM. Commenting out the SoftMPU line from autoexec.bat does the trick. Do we know of any other games that present this behaviour? Thx!

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Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2023-08-28, 18:06

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by kahuna

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Hi there, Just wanted to double check something. Is it OK to leave softmpu running at all times (i.e., loaded in autoexec.bat) even for games that do not require intelligent mode? Or perhaps should I just only load softmpu when I'm about to play one of those games? Thanks!

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

Posted on 2023-08-28, 05:37

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by kahuna

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Hello Vogons! First of all, apologies for resurrecting this thread, but I think this is the best place to share some experiences that may help someone. I'm building a (few) retro system(s) for my personal enjoyment. In this case, this is an AMD K6-III+ based one targeted for early Windows 9x and DOS …

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Re: i5 Sandy Bridge with Windows XP - SATA AHCI mode issues

Posted on 2023-06-10, 03:59

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by kahuna

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Hi there, appreciate all the replies. Unfortunately, the motherboard is not in a good shape. I’ve ordered a “new” one. In the meantime I’ve to put this project in the freezer, but more to come I’m sure!

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i5 Sandy Bridge with Windows XP - SATA AHCI mode issues

Posted on 2023-06-08, 23:12

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by kahuna

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Hey Vogsphere people! I could use some help. I'm building yet another retro PC, it has the following specs: - Asus p8p67-m microATX motherboard - Intel i5 2500k Sandy Bridge - 16GB of DDR3 RAM - Nvidia Quadro M6000 12GB - Crucial MX500 SSD (Windows XP) - connected to the 6Gbps SATA-1 port on the …

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Re: Performance problems or is it expected?

Posted on 2023-01-05, 22:22

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by kahuna

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Thanks for the quick replies, much appreciated! RepoMan, could you please let me know what mobo drivers, DirectX, Nvidia drivers etc. are you using? Happy to try and try again 😉 In regards to the BIOS settings, I'll post later what I have configured.

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Performance problems or is it expected?

Posted on 2023-01-05, 21:04

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by kahuna

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Hello everyone! I need some help to understand what the title of this post says, whether these numbers are expected or if am I missing something here. Let me describe my current system: SOYO SY-5EMA PRO (ETEQ chipset which is just a rebranded VIA MVP3) AMD K6-III+ @616 MHz (112 x 5.5) 384MB of RAM …

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4GB of RAM on a Pentium 4 mobo

Posted on 2022-12-21, 22:43

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by kahuna

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Dear Vogon people, One of the retro systems I'm building is based on a Pentium 4 3.2GHz Northwood and a Gigabyte GA-8S655FX-L ver. 1.0 (SiS based motherboard). I also got two sticks of 1GB Corsair Pro DDR400 (black) and two sticks of 1GB Corsair Platinum. Both of them are CL2 and for what I read, …

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Re: Throttle CD-ROM drive speed in DOS?

Posted on 2022-12-12, 07:13

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by kahuna

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Hi there! Thanks for this great tool @ChrisR3tro ! I just tested version 1.2 with these two LG drives: LG GSA-4167B LG GSA-H10A CDBeQuiet! was able to spin down both drives. What I did is just boot up a Windows 98 install CD, these LG drives spins the CD so fast that sounds like a Boeing 747 about …

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