Re: Space Quest III on CT-460

Posted on 2016-09-19, 17:46

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Success! Good news! Cloudschatze's CSM1 driver works perfectly fine with my new copy of SQ3. I'm really happy now, even though there's a little annoyance left..: My save games don't work anymore (and I had to install the CSM1.DRV manually, as collector suggested - thx!). Guess I've stumbled over …

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Re: Timeline of MS-DOS for NEC PC98

Posted on 2016-09-19, 12:55

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Thank you for telling me! :) I've also found out that Microsoft and Intel had a "PC 98" specification as part of their PC System Design Guide . I'm sure this will lead to confusion at beginners evenmore. Funnily, the non-PC98 compatible PC98-NX series was compliant to this. NEC really had a sense …

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Re: FM and PCM Volume Balance of SB Cards

Posted on 2016-09-18, 19:50

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Excellent! Now we have a complete reference SB 2.0 card. Thank you again Jo22. Glad I could help! And thank you very much for this thread! I've always felt that there was a difference between SB2 and SB16 when playing old games, but I've never found out that they had different balance. Also …

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Re: FM and PCM Volume Balance of SB Cards

Posted on 2016-09-18, 19:08

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Good news! I got the CMS upgrade working! :-D I was very nervous to not to ruin my REV 4 card..: It is the oldest SB2 I've got and I did a recap just recently. Before the first try I even removed the YM3812 (FM1312) as a safety measure. Besides, it was part of the bequest of one our families friend …

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Re: FM and PCM Volume Balance of SB Cards

Posted on 2016-09-18, 15:25

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Hello everyone, I've done some more recordings. For the game GODS, I used the SoundMachine, SoundBlaster 2.0 and the Protac card. That ThunderBoard clone was already in the machine and so I thought it would be a good idea to do a recording for comparison. I also turned the volume knob a bit up for a …

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Re: The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (or: Very Old Glyphs On New Systems)

Posted on 2016-09-18, 05:21

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Good News! The new programmer was able to read that chip. Well, at least it claims it did.. Note that its chip's database doesn't know of the M5L2764K -2, so I choosed a generic CMOS version instead (AMD). It worked fine after I unchecked the "Check ID" option. To my relief, the verify check didn't …

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Re: increase the max ram use with dosbox?

Posted on 2016-09-17, 19:08

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But since this requires XMS 3.0 aware programs and DOSBox aims for good DOS 5.0 compatibility, the limit is set to 64MB. Why dos 5.0? Dont games like daggerfall reccomend MSDOS 6.0? Because DOS 6.x got MemMaker and MSCDEX, I guess. However, it will also run on DOS 5. DOS 5/6 do use the almost same …

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Re: 486DLC Project

Posted on 2016-09-17, 18:14

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Are the ISA slots pkay ? Sometimes a pin gets bent, and shorts another one..

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Re: FM and PCM Volume Balance of SB Cards

Posted on 2016-09-17, 16:24

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And once more..

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Re: FM and PCM Volume Balance of SB Cards

Posted on 2016-09-17, 16:18

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@Jo22 Can you please also make a recording of the CMS along with OPL and WAV with the CT1350, attached by Jepael before your post. Also, can you please record the intro song from the game GODS with the CT1350 card? This should give another perspective of balance with actual content, since the SB2.0 …

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Re: FM and PCM Volume Balance of SB Cards

Posted on 2016-09-17, 15:10

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Hi, there! Glad I could help! 😀 Yes, FM first, then the wave sample. Btw, I've a few more cards to test..

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Re: FM and PCM Volume Balance of SB Cards

Posted on 2016-09-17, 14:33

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A few more..

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Re: FM and PCM Volume Balance of SB Cards

Posted on 2016-09-17, 14:27

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Hello, everone. I've done some recordings for you. I have used sound cards from my own little collection. They all work, but are also quite old. Perhaps some caps need to to replaced to restore former sound quality.

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Re: DOSBox And Physical Floppy Drive Question

Posted on 2016-09-17, 10:09

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Did someone take a look at the program so that I can get some more help? I downloaded it, but I've to do several other things right now, too (fixing SQ3 recordings, dumping a chip, family..) If it is okay, I'll look at it early next week. In the mean time, I can give you another tip. Perhaps this …

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Re: Timeline of MS-DOS for NEC PC98

Posted on 2016-09-16, 18:34

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yawetaG wrote: Just found this awesome page for anyone who is interested in Japanese computers in general: IPSJ Computer Museum 😁 Awesome, thanks! 😁 It has a lot of background information, it seems! I'll browse through it tonight.

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Re: The year is 1990 and you still have a PC/XT and can't upgrade. Which games are you playing?

Posted on 2016-09-16, 18:07

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Interesting, this model looks slightly similar to the Amiga 1500/2000 series! The 386SX-16 we got after that was a Commodore as well, it was similar to the Amiga 4000 styling: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/foto/cip/computer_pc386_16_01.jpg Cool, looks like a sleek and tidy little machine! :-D It …

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Re: The year is 1990 and you still have a PC/XT and can't upgrade. Which games are you playing?

Posted on 2016-09-16, 17:35

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A 386 is the slowest PC I've played games on, but I think everything we played in the early 90's would've run on a PC/XT. Funny, because back then, a 386 was about the fastest I've played games on (to me, a 386 was mighty ).. It was my father's business machine and I was allowd to play a few games …

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Re: Amstrad 1512 - CGA(ish?) to VGA

Posted on 2016-09-16, 14:23

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Bye the way, did it come with the floppies, too ? If it did, do you have any use for the utilities from the 5th diskette ? I have them. In case you're interested, just say so. They do conatin some fixed-disk utilities for DOS and DOS Plus.. It didn't come with any floppies unfortunately... I could …

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Re: PC compatibility cards

Posted on 2016-09-16, 11:02

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Strange. Even if there was no MPU-401 interface present or accessible, the DSP commands for SB-MIDI can be sent. Every Sound Blaster since the 8Bit era had this feature. It was also still functional in the SB16 series (at least CT17XX, as far as I know). For this MIDI type, there's no special …

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Re: PCI Soundcards with wavetable synthesis in real DOS?

Posted on 2016-09-16, 10:13

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Ensoniq / Creative AudioPCI Aureal Vortex 2 / TB Santa Cruz aka Videologic Sonic Fury unter DOS Sorry, that's the best I can offer. PCI+DOS doesn't go well together, you know. Why not adhere to ISA cards in DOS ? Both are carcass of the 20th century.

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