Re: Urgent Question for SC-88, SC-88Pro, SC-8820, SC-8850 Owners

Posted on 2016-04-14, 05:44

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by keropi

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I mean that the sc-88vl is basically a 1994 sc-88 and the sc-8820 is a 1999 device - so lots of things can change in 5 years and it's no surprise the units behave differently when you change maps. 😉

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Re: Urgent Question for SC-88, SC-88Pro, SC-8820, SC-8850 Owners

Posted on 2016-04-13, 22:33

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by keropi

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Interesting but no surprising really, the 2 units are just from different time eras 😀

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Re: Urgent Question for SC-88, SC-88Pro, SC-8820, SC-8850 Owners

Posted on 2016-04-13, 09:05

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by keropi

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Glad this was what you were looking for... when I got the 8820 I did play lots with the map button under dos , wanted to hear how games would sound in other non-55 modes LOL I also found that the map button only affect the unit's PART-A input, so for example SC-55 stuff should be played from PART-A …

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Re: Urgent Question for SC-88, SC-88Pro, SC-8820, SC-8850 Owners

Posted on 2016-04-13, 08:53

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by keropi

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What do you mean by "while already in GM mode" ? Take DOOM for example. You enter and begin to play in 8820 mode. You realize you want to hear it in SC-55 mode so you change the map. Current midi will sound dreadful but the next song will sound exactly as it was meant in SC-55 mode. So you only " …

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Re: Urgent Question for SC-88, SC-88Pro, SC-8820, SC-8850 Owners

Posted on 2016-04-13, 08:28

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by keropi

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well, for example instead of hearing a flute with vibrato/reverb parameters you get the flute with these parameters reverted to 0. Do this in all instruments and you get something that resembles the original score but completely dry/out-of-tune. I also believe drum kit selection reverts back to the …

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Re: Urgent Question for SC-88, SC-88Pro, SC-8820, SC-8850 Owners

Posted on 2016-04-13, 07:41

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by keropi

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What exactly are you trying to find out? I can't explain further if you don't understand what a reset during playback sounds like. No - instruments do not changed to pianos, what happens is that all their parameters are lost from the reset and the result is playback with instruments at default …

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Re: Urgent Question for SC-88, SC-88Pro, SC-8820, SC-8850 Owners

Posted on 2016-04-13, 07:15

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by keropi

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I have a 8820 and changing modes does not happen immediately, it takes a couple of seconds. You can press the map button any time you like but by doing that the module does an internal reset and loses all the extra data/parameters the midi sends before/during playback so most of the times you will …

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Re: Parallel to Ethernet?

Posted on 2016-04-13, 07:03

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by keropi

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Yes there is, most famous I know is the Xircom PE3-10BT , it is well documented and has drivers available. Look here: http://www.brutman.com/Dos_Networking/xircom_pe3.html But keep in mind, these devices are meant for slow machines like a XT-class one, for anything more than that I'd just use an ISA …

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Re: My ongoing 386DX/40 build

Posted on 2016-04-10, 19:13

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by keropi

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Made some recordings using the Sound Edge and the midi files from WinRoids - a great and freeware asteroids clone for win3.x . It's nothing serious, the midis do have flaws in them and this was done for fun since it is a game I was playing back then, mainly to test how good replacing some midi …

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Re: Compaq Presario 1800 notebook - soldering additional VRAM?

Posted on 2016-04-09, 13:32

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

go for it if you have the skills/tools

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Re: Did I ruin this card?

Posted on 2016-04-09, 00:02

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by keropi

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99.999% it's fine, like HighTreason said it's just the solder mask that got scratched

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Re: Artex's 3DFX Voodoo5 6000 Thread

Posted on 2016-04-08, 05:35

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by keropi

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Awesome build! Truly unique!

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Re: Some interesting (paid) Windows 9x utilities

Posted on 2016-04-06, 17:57

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by keropi

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mr R. Loew's work is awesome, I have bought from him the win9x slipstreaming tools he made and they were a HUGE help to create my own custom 98SE installations . He is also the person that provided several patches for DOS/windows like the win3x+FAT32 fix that I posted about here: http://www.vogons. …

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Re: Can anyone tell me more about this particular SoundBlaster 16?

Posted on 2016-04-05, 21:31

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by keropi

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CT2830 , it's a SB16 , real OPL3 chip, jumpers for resources... what's there to know? it's a good card seems to be the same as CT2230 but with an standard IDE interface and not connectors for specific cd-rom models

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Re: Outputting 240p from a modern PC on an NTSC CRT for emulation

Posted on 2016-04-05, 20:01

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by keropi

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I have done this but for TV sets that have RGB inputs (the standard here) , no idea how you can achieve this for component output as I am not sure that component is flexible as to work with non-standard refresh values... At any rate here is what I did: http://i.imgur.com/CS6l0to.jpg a. got an ATI …

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Re: Odd-looking AWE64 Value

Posted on 2016-04-05, 07:13

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by keropi

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why? left-over cards sold in bulk at a good price for some assembler , that's what I think this is.

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Re: Odd-looking AWE64 Value

Posted on 2016-04-05, 06:55

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by keropi

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most likely a card build for some pc assembler of the time (dell, hp, etc) with missing features but enough to provide a somewhat good sound solution in a windows environment.

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Re: My ongoing 386DX/40 build

Posted on 2016-04-03, 18:14

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by keropi

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I've been digging more into the SW20-PC OPL4 control panel options and it struck me: what if you could have both OPL4 + FM synthesis play at the same time? Well you can! What I found more interesting is that you can play for example a midi file using the FM synth but have the percussion channel play …

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Re: My ongoing 386DX/40 build , some stabillity advice welcomed

Posted on 2016-04-03, 13:03

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by keropi

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Yes I do, it's a UMC 82C3491 based mobo 😀 TLB works wonders with that and give me ~160kb of UMBs to use, ultra-helpful as the OPL4 driver is ~30kb :\

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Re: CGA Graphics - Not as bad as you thought!

Posted on 2016-04-03, 12:47

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by keropi

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VileRancour wrote: Since this video apparently surprised John Carmack as well... ...CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. 😈 keen4c16.png what. is. this. 😳 please tell me this is a WIP and not a single shot 😊

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