Re: [retro swim] - An episodic video tour of SquallStrife's retro junk
Posted on 2016-01-08, 05:23
vladstamate wrote: I like this series a lot! Thanks for putting the videos up! Hey, my pleasure, dude! 😀
Re: Mysterie Package! An idea?
Posted on 2016-01-06, 00:53
So...like...a Secret Santa? In January? Fascinating.
Re: 8088 MPH: We Break All Your Emulators
Posted on 2016-01-05, 10:38
How the hell do you get FM Synthesis to produce such beeps? I always wondered that even when I first started playing System Shock and Terra Nova with OPL3 music... OPL3 lets you use square waves, if that's what you're referring to. With OPL2, I believe you just overdrive a sine wave until it clips …
Re: 8088 MPH: We Break All Your Emulators
Posted on 2016-01-04, 22:22
This version actually *is* the MONOTONE song, but with MONOTONE using the Adlib driver I believe, which makes it multi-channel. Oh rad! MONOTONE files are actually 'list of notes' files, more or less. I figured as much. That question was more in case aimed at a scenario where the version on …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2016-01-04, 02:44
Calvero wrote: Joe Siegler on Stargunner Music: http://joe.siegler.net/2015/09/stargunner-music/ I always love when juicy retrospectives from old game devs surface like this. Thanks for sharing!!
Re: 8088 MPH: We Break All Your Emulators
Posted on 2016-01-04, 01:22
Scali, what program was the Swinging Waste tune originally composed in? https://soundcloud.com/phoenix-dc5/swinging-waste-multi-channel-version <-- is that the original, or is the MONOTONE composition the original, and the former is "based on" the latter? If the above composition is available in …
Re: x86EMU emulator releases
Posted on 2016-01-04, 00:45
So what's the goal of this project? What does this do that, say, PCem doesn't do?
Re: hybrid computer
Posted on 2016-01-04, 00:17
I could be wrong, but hasn't this been brought up before, and it was noted that the ISA slots on some (if not all) of these modern industrial boards are slightly gimped? Something to do with how the ISA bus is implemented, non-maskable interrupts or something like that.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-01-03, 08:26
Nice work managing those pesky ribbon cables!
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-01-02, 08:42
OH GOD I JUST FOUND THIS http://www.my90stv.com/#6QD4ZUfgNzQ MY EVENING IS PLANNED YOU GUYS
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-01-02, 08:08
HighTreason wrote: It's kinda ruined by the LCD, That was my first thought. I nearly didn't bother. Of course it looks pretty average when you're sitting up close to it. But like I said, once you're sitting across the room from it, you nearly can't tell. (Save, perhaps, for the "Please activate …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-01-02, 07:20
I turned an old broken TV into a PC. http://i.imgur.com/xUQR4ao.jpg http://i.imgur.com/PgwssbA.jpg Why not use a Raspberry Pi? 1. The only LCD I had that would fit didn't have HDMI or DVI. Only VGA. 2. I didn't want to buy anything (no USB-VGA adaptor, not even the Gert RasPi VGA adaptor) 3. I …
Re: Which Sound Blaster drivers can I comment out?
Posted on 2016-01-02, 01:03
Just to give a bit more info, CTMMSYS.SYS is Creative's own driver, intended to simplify the programming of the card. 99.9% of games don't use it, and talk to the hardware directly. If you don't load this driver, you won't be able to use Creative's own PLAY.EXE utility to play digitised audio (.wav …
Re: How can I FAT32 format my hard disk?
Posted on 2016-01-01, 00:58
Pretty sure you can at the command prompt, either with FORMAT or in DISKPART. Edit: OK, format will get to the end and fail when it's >32GB. DISKPART should still be able to do it? NO You can only quick format a drive if its already formatted with the same file system, you can't quick format ntfs to …
Re: [retro swim] - An episodic video tour of SquallStrife's retro junk
Posted on 2015-12-31, 11:58
Episode 32 is live!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSrTgMNxJXU Wherein I finish off 2015 with just 2 hours to spare! Happy new year everybody!
Re: Duke Nukem IP Ownership Change
Posted on 2015-12-31, 07:20
It's not the landlord who's being greedy, it's the tenants. It's still the landlord being greedy. The rental rate isn't a secret, so if it's not already profitable, they shouldn't buy it. If they simply want it to be /more/ profitable, I'm pretty sure that's the definition of greed. Not saying that …
Re: USB Floppy Emulator / Simulator - Video Review
Posted on 2015-12-29, 09:44
I'm at a bit of a loss when it comes to this Gotek Floppy Emulator. What do you do with installations which keep asking for a certain disk? You mean, it asks for "Disk 1" when that's already what you have loaded? The Gotek only uses byte-images of floppy disks. Nothing that uses elaborate disk- …
Re: Very much a hardware question: PC/XT bus logic
Posted on 2015-12-26, 15:40
AFAIK a bunch of TTL logic is used on many expansion boards, and Sergei's turbo XT SBC uses 74LS (or 74HCT) glue logic for just about everything. For TTL 0-0.8V is low, 2.2-5V is high. Everything in between is undefined. I get that. But would, say, low-low-low-low represent 0x0 (thus "active high") …
Re: Spelling and grammar pet peeves around here
Posted on 2015-12-26, 15:32
ゴミ means garbage so I guess they misspelled dump. :-P 捨てる (suteru) means to discard, so yep, safe assumption. :) Gratuitous use of apostrophe-s, they put it everywhere! e.g. Dell PC's , Apple Mac's , 80's games I've come to let it slide when one is trying to pluralise an acronym/abbreviation. CD's. …
Very much a hardware question: PC/XT bus logic
Posted on 2015-12-26, 15:25
Everything I've found via Google on the topic has been high-level and abstract. I want to know, if you probe a low signal (<0.8v) on A0...A19, is that a 1 or a 0? I know I can find out myself, but I'm sure someone here will know off the top of their head!!
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