Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2021-04-19, 11:00

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Can the Amiga use an ET4000 SVGA? Yes: http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/domino And yes, it does look like an awful kludge, it had to be more expensive than ISA ET4000 card, it couldn't be faster than ISA ET4000 card... That's cool, glad to see. 😎 If it only was a semi-standard on both platforms at the …

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2021-04-18, 19:00

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Can the Amiga use an ET4000 SVGA? I'm asking, because it was supported on the Atari ST platform. I did read about it in an old ST magazine way back in the 90s. The idea was to use Super VGA resolutions, 1024x768 pels and up on TOS. Programs that complied with the programming guides (Cubase?) ran …

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Re: Mid 1990's Isometric House Building Program/game for Windows 3.1x (or could have been DOS)

Posted on 2021-04-18, 17:26

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Hi, I used Virtous 3D (?).. It ran on Win 3.1 and supported 3D glasses (shutter type).

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Re: Challenge: Install W95 with only a HDD

Posted on 2021-04-18, 11:04

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Goo luck! Windows 95 is quite finicky sometimes. 😥 In practice, it's either too old or too new I'd only use it for two cases nowadays - nostalgia and exreme low-end hardware (386, 4-8MiB RAM: Win95 RTM). Windows 98SE is not just an update, it's so much better: Vastly improved memory managment, can …

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Re: 286 Compatible driver for ALS100+

Posted on 2021-04-18, 03:22

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Yes, unisound is a fine piece of software. If you encounter similar compatibility issues (386 opcodes) with other drivers (or games), please have a look at EMU386, too. 😀 Re: New game: Loonies 8192 (386+, VGA, OPL-2) https://survpc.tripod.com/emu386/

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Re: Show us your custom Physical mt32-pi Builds

Posted on 2021-04-18, 01:31

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Really nice builds in here, all around. But I especially like ratsflif's build, a 5.25" bay mounted MT32 is such an awesome idea!! Ditto. ditto_yay_small.gif I couldn't be wrong, but I think some semi-professional soundcards stored MIDI daughterboards (WaveBlaster, DB50XG etc) in the bay. The …

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Re: FTP Client for Win95C

Posted on 2021-04-18, 01:11

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Ipswitch ws_ftp? We used that at school in the dark "frame sites" era. 😉 Edit: There are Win32 ports of wget floating around.. Wget should be able to download from FTP, at least..

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Re: Connecting Roland MT-32 to Modern PC?

Posted on 2021-04-17, 22:41

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There is a Midi-to-USB cable you can buy that has been specifically made to be used with the Roland MT-32 on Windows 10: https://i.imgur.com/EBaZROi.png Looks good! 👍 That's utter nonsense and contradicts the MIDI specs. The better cables do have opto-couplers, at least on MIDI-IN. Just use a …

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Re: Connecting Roland MT-32 to Modern PC?

Posted on 2021-04-17, 10:06

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I think the same. Munt has evolved to a level at which it has almost no bugs anymore and pretty much behaves the same as the MT-32 (or CM32L). Which is no surprise, since it runs the same program with the same data as the real thing. However, there might be minor differences. The DACs, the physical …

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Re: win98 MS Network Client in pure DOS mode

Posted on 2021-04-16, 05:41

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I second that. It's also possible to use Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and the TCP/IP-32 addon for such a purpose, by the way. WFWG 3.11 can also be used without the GUI, so that only its network portion is functional. I think this can be done by starting WIN.COM with a special parameter.. Here's some …

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Re: RFI filters / MIDI ?

Posted on 2021-04-16, 05:06

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How about this one? Seems ancient. It's a kind of a coil, I suppose. It's purpose is to catch the RF and the coat waves/mantle waves/sheet waves and ground them? coil_coatw.jpg Edit: Or, since this was installed in an alarm clock, maybe it could also have been used to capture the 50/60Hz rhythm for …

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RFI filters / MIDI ?

Posted on 2021-04-16, 03:57

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Hi everyone, Has anyone experience with RFI filters in MIDI equipment ? I just saw this one: midihw2.gif Source: http://www.hinton-instruments.co.uk/reference/midi/promidi/index.htm These DSS306 types are new to me. I know of filters, though. I wonder, do normale ferrite baids or MIDI-In cables …

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Re: 386 Computer not working

Posted on 2021-04-15, 15:26

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The CHS values for the drive can be found here: https://www.computerhope.com/hdseagat.htm ST3120A 106 MB 1024 12 17 0 0 IDE 1024 Cyl, 12 Head, 17 Sector Put those into the setup program, the PC might boot. +1 Depending on the BIOS model, 1023 Cyl, 11 Heads must be entered (if it counts from 0 …

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Re: Solution to slow copy of lots of files to FAT32 pendrive

Posted on 2021-04-15, 08:46

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Hi! Thank's for the tip! 😀 👍

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Re: DOSBOX with windows 3.1 problems with some games

Posted on 2021-04-15, 02:59

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I don't know for sure.. However, here's the author's site. Maybe your files are corrupted, somehow, not sure. https://www.ib-burkart.de/games.htm If Windows 3.1x refuses to execute programs in Winfile, there might be something wrong with either DOSBox or your Windows 3.1x installation. Maybe the CPU …

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Re: How do you get a serial mouse working

Posted on 2021-04-14, 04:10

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Hi, yes, you could try running a test program. My old Genius Mouse (GM6), for example, had one that ran in text-mode and displayed a mouse. Whenever you clicked a button, the picture of the mouse changed accordingly. Unfortunately, I'm afraid the Genius mice aren't MS Mouse compatible, so you …

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Re: Windows 95 lag spikes using sd to ide adapter

Posted on 2021-04-12, 04:01

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guess it wouldn't hurt to try, but i highly doubt there's any point in loading smartdrv under win95. that being said, it might be worth trying to manually limit vcache size as it's commonly recommended for windows 95. i'd also make sure that all of that memory is actually cached by the chipset. …

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Re: Windows 95 lag spikes using sd to ide adapter

Posted on 2021-04-11, 15:03

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I had stutter/jerkyness issues with certain Compact Flash Cards on Win 9x, too.. I can't think of a proper solution right now, but here's something to try: Load SmartDrive, like you'd do on DOS 6.22. In Autoexec.bat, add "SMARTDRV /X" and in Config.sys add "DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\SMARTDRV.EXE / …

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2021-04-11, 09:36

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^I think the same, sorta. What the Amiga platform really hurt, was the long absence of hard disks. No serious user was willing to play that disk jokey game for long. Heck, even the ancient Sinclair machines had an alternative to floppies, the Microdrive. :) The only serious Amigas were the A1000 and …

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Re: Timeline of MS-DOS for NEC PC98 and more

Posted on 2021-04-10, 23:08

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Little update. Found another Japanese font utility for DOS on the site mentioned before. It might be useful for those of you that have trouble with DOS-J Plus. I'll attach it here for preservation purposes.

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