Re: My PAS and YMF cards produce garbage noises instead of proper playback.

Posted on 2018-03-01, 04:45

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by Jo22

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There are Jumpers on the PAS itself, i might need to check those. Some of the jumpers define the cards ID. You can have up to 4 (or were it 8 ?) installed in a single PC. Still wouldn't explain why the generic YMF-card suffers the same issues though. Those should just work :confused: Yes, I think …

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Re: My PAS and YMF cards produce garbage noises instead of proper playback.

Posted on 2018-03-01, 03:04

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by Jo22

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Did you install both a PAS16 and an other sound card at the same time ? That doesn't work too well, I'm afraid. I once tried that with an SB16. The PAS16 uses the AdLib/OPL base address 388h for its native part, too. During init of mvsound.sys, this can cause noise on a generic OPL3 card. A re-init …

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Re: where is mouse.com???

Posted on 2018-03-01, 02:56

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by Jo22

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I'm using old 6.24BZ, since it harmonizes well with my older and newer software. For newer software, 8.x is better, though. It supports the windowed DOS sessions in Win 3.1x, for example. A bunch of old mouse drivers can be found at Uwe Sieber's homepage. http://www.uwe-sieber.de/util_e.html

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Re: When will Microsoft finally die?

Posted on 2018-02-28, 23:42

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by Jo22

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@dr_st My bad. I'm no native English speaker, so I probably should have used another term. Speaking of telemetry, yes, that's how it should be. Unfortunately, IPv6 and MAC addresses make it quite possible to identify a person's device. Now if a person uses several different accounts, by different …

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Re: Resound OPL3 AdLib sound card just released

Posted on 2018-02-28, 22:16

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by Jo22

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Yes you can completely disable port 388 on an AWE 64 and use another card to provide genuine OPL. For game compatibility you still point the settings to the AWE. Normally FM would play on both cards but through the AWE configuration disable port 388 so fm sound only comes out of the 2nd card I can …

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Re: emm386.exe and ems memory

Posted on 2018-02-28, 22:09

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by Jo22

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Hi! So you are trying to do that natively on an Athlon64 system ? If so, perhaps there's just not enough free space in the Upper Memory Area (UMA) anymore. -Beginning with the year 2000, mainboards got a lot of integrated peripherals. If you can, try to disable all things you don't need. You can …

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Re: Resound OPL3 AdLib sound card just released

Posted on 2018-02-28, 12:04

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by Jo22

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That reminds me of the YMF289, whose register's can be read. It's neither really related nor an issue, though. Just reminded me of that chip. Wonder why that feature was implemented at all.

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Re: When will Microsoft finally die?

Posted on 2018-02-27, 19:03

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^Maybe, maybe not. Neither indifference nor resignation is a solution, though. You don't require things to hide to end up beeing in an at the wrong time in the wrong place situation. You're confusing 'security concerns' with 'rabid paranoia'. I'm not sure about that. Sure, these concerns were around …

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Re: Resound OPL3 AdLib sound card just released

Posted on 2018-02-27, 17:44

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Which is also an awesome source for fraud ... considering the last AdLib I've seen on eBay sold for 451€ Sure. But that is probably not really the fault of hobbyists who designed the replica (their aims were rather contrary). These sellers simply make use of the greed of certain types of collectors …

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Re: When will Microsoft finally die?

Posted on 2018-02-26, 23:49

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I feel like the current situation is a bit depressing, let's see what the future holds. As far as Windows 10 is concerned, it is the first OS which successfully causes a split-up bewteen Windows users. Ironically, it seems macOS and *nix users tolerate Windows 10 and MS' shift in business policy …

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Re: Resound OPL3 AdLib sound card just released

Posted on 2018-02-26, 23:05

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by Jo22

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I really like the idea. Though I would have had prefered a dual-opl3 card for music (AdlibTracker II). If it kept the default ports for the first opl3 and retained the address scheme for a second, it would have allowed for some fancy 4op songs. In the end, this would have been allowed someone to …

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Re: A thought: SD card reader via parallel port?

Posted on 2018-02-26, 22:48

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by Jo22

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Ozzuneoj wrote: Anyone? I got a generic CF to parallel reader for dirt cheap, and I'd like to see if any DOS drivers for similar devices work with this one. Datafab-parallel-port-compact-flash-reader Good luck! 😀

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Re: DOSbox issue with Autosketch 3 under Ubuntu

Posted on 2018-02-26, 22:14

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by Jo22

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In case of AutoSketch, though, there might be some reasons to stick to specific version (though not necessarily in the official DOSBox). Did you know, for example, that version 2.x for Windows was about the only release to ever have had a makro language/scripting abilities ? I didn't know myself …

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Re: Increase memory of a video card in DosBox?

Posted on 2018-02-26, 21:18

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by Jo22

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Still wonder where the 2MB limit came from, though. Limits of the VESA specs, etc., maybe ? But according to the VBE 2 specs , the highest modes each are 11Bh, 1280x1024, 16.8Mcols and mode 107h, 1280x1024, 256cols. PCem says an -emulated- Trio32 supports 2MB, while Trio64 and S3 Vision864 support …

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Re: Sampo computer

Posted on 2018-02-26, 00:54

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by Jo22

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Most of the Taiwanese PC makers were just your bog-standard PC clone makers and typically while Sampo might be the brand, and being Taiwanese may have made the case and power supply, maybe even the motherboard too depending, it most likely has parts from all over the place running chips from all …

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Re: Win7 32 bit

Posted on 2018-02-26, 00:08

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Why bother with DOS software in Windows when you can use DOSbox? It emulates all common graphics cards, sound cards and ports old software expects. I think, this topic was about native 16 bit Windows software. And those should work with any 32 bit Windows. Yes, they should. What I like about DOSBox …

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Pentium OverDrive and VLB ?

Posted on 2018-02-25, 13:59

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by Jo22

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Hello everyone, I was just tinkering with PCem and noticed that it supports the POD for 486 machine types. This makes me wonder, how well did these OverDrive chips work with real, existing 486 mainboards/chipsets of the time ? As far as ISA and PCI are concerned, these bus types are more or less …

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Re: Switching DOS into REAL mode

Posted on 2018-02-25, 10:20

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by Jo22

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Beautiful machine. Thanks for the link!

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Re: Media Vision PAS 16 Not Installing in Dos

Posted on 2018-02-25, 09:45

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by Jo22

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Was a typo in the handbook probably. I just used the installer.

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Re: 6.8 megabyte floppy image on Gotek?

Posted on 2018-02-25, 09:39

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by Jo22

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FlashFloppy v0.9.11a got released just recently. 😀

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