Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2022-06-27, 18:45
The DIGPAK drivers for DSS and Covox are proper background drivers, so those should have worked. They did when I patched them into Dune II. 🤔
Re: ARGUS Project thread - now accepting pre-orders (for north/south American and Europe)
Posted on 2022-06-27, 09:03
Does the GUS need DMA to play music? Will it work in a board without functional DMA? The GUS can use DMA to load samples in memory. It is not needed to play samples as they are in the GUS Memory. Were there many games that actually leveraged this properly on the GUS, though? I get the impression …
Re: Is it possible to make an image of the entire OS & installed content for Win9x?
Posted on 2022-06-26, 13:44
Paragon offered something like that years ago. https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-win98 The download site is 404, though. Maybe there's a mirror, or a copy at the iNet archive. Paragon Softare recently open-sourced their NTFS driver for Linux, and it was merged into the mainline kernel. …
Re: Dune "HERAD" Ad Lib Music Hacking
Posted on 2022-06-21, 11:04
I initially read "HERAD" as "Herald", and immediately I wondered whether this was about someone possibly having composed an Adlib/OPL2 version of the music piece "Herald of the Change" by Hans Zimmer (part of the soundtrack of the recent Dune movie), and perhaps even having managed to patch it into …
Re: CVX4 : high quality covox adapter
Posted on 2022-06-21, 10:49
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Fair enough. And I'm sure there's still good demand for a no-frills high-quality Covox Speech Thing clone. But still, could at least some of these proposed improvements make it into a hypothetical CVX5?
Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?
Posted on 2022-06-21, 10:06
I accidentally found a game that natively supports DS201 device. It's Lode Runner: The Legend Returns. DS201 is the boring one, that has no SB emulation. Still turns out that there are games that support it. I don't have one to test, unfortunately. That's because this game apparently uses DIGPAK …
Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support
Posted on 2022-05-06, 18:20
I had no idea Wolfenstein 3D was released on the 5th of May. That happens to be Liberation Day in the Netherlands. 😃
Re: The comprehensive list of all modern reproductions of vintage sound cards
Posted on 2022-04-06, 22:08
I just realized something. If someone combined a Disney Sound Source with an OPL3LPT on a single parallel port dongle, would that be a compelling product? It would need some kind of primitive mixer, even if it's as simple as an analog potentiometer dial. What would be really cool is if both those …
Re: The comprehensive list of all modern reproductions of vintage sound cards
Posted on 2022-04-05, 21:24
There's also this (rightmost gadget): https://i.imgur.com/aNYljS1.jpg Which is basically a kinda discrete Stereo-on-2 Covox with switchable DSS support. The current layout has some errors, but I'd be willing to go fully open source with that project so it can be fixed by someone else for a neat and …
Re: CVX-2 : covox adapter
Posted on 2022-04-03, 20:53
I'm thinking of making a CVX5, any suggestions for changes/improvements compared to CVX4 ? CVX5 would be available in larger amount, it will take a few months though - Full DSS support (FIFO + 7KHz sampling) - Stereo COVOX support - Funky LEDs because why not? Hi oh this is going way beyond simple …
Re: Fortex: Vortex2+YMF744
Posted on 2022-03-20, 09:21
That looks amazing! Am I seeing that correctly? You laid an actual chip on a 1:1 paper printout of your board design, to verify that all the traces line up properly?
Re: What do you drive?
Posted on 2022-03-12, 13:47
The Real GREEN Energy American Family Car. The Fred Flint Stone Car in Wyoming USA. Of course. Fred Flintstone would be absolutely appalled by the idea of burning dead dinosaurs to get around. How could he look his beloved pet Dino in the eyes if he came home from the quarry in a gas-guzzler every …
Re: Intrest in new ISA cards?
Posted on 2022-03-01, 21:41
The common suggestion, a sufficiently powerful yet affordable FPGA on an ISA card, has already been mentioned by several people here. I have something different in mind: an ISA USB Card. But not just any ISA USB card. An "intelligent" one that exposes the USB devices you plug into its backplate as …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-03-01, 21:25
I feel just as bad for the Russian citizens who don't have any say in their government's decisions and are having their hard-earned Rubles devalued because of Putin's foolish and shameful war as I do for the people of Ukraine who deserve to live in freedom and peace. That's the thing when you're a …
Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee
Posted on 2022-02-27, 11:08
A true Windows 98 gaming machine would need 3D acceleration and that's never gonna happen. Well, the Vortex86DX SoC does happen to have a PCI bus , so never say never. 😉 You know, there is a guy who reversed engineered the Voodoo 5 6000 ( https://www.tomshardware.com/news/3dfx-voodoo-5-6000-comes- …
Re: Newly written driver(s) for Sierra's Creative Interpreter – Starting with Plantronics ColorPlus
Posted on 2022-02-27, 10:38
I just recently found this topic. I was wondering how hard it would be to make a PCPplus driver for the Lucasarts games? I have actually looked at "The Secret of Monkey Island" before. The main problem I see is that there aren't any drivers, at all. Presumably it is all in monkey.exe itself, which …
Re: Any interest in a SDL-less "abstract" port?
Posted on 2022-02-27, 10:28
I'd think SDL2's design for absolute 3d accelerated surfaces on any video output gatekeeps older video cards, and that's before going into possible 'modern code' vs. old gcc politics. It should still be possible to implement SDL2's API on older hardware, since not all of the graphics API pertains …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-02-27, 10:18
Sad to know that there are such people in the world. I hope Computer Reset catalogued the serial numbers of all the valuable items before they were stolen.
Re: Any interest in a SDL-less "abstract" port?
Posted on 2022-02-25, 22:33
Wouldn't it make more sense to spend those efforts on backporting SDL2 to those older platforms instead of keeping SDL 1.x alive? Are there any technical reasons why that would be infeasible?
Re: MiniGL Specification
Posted on 2022-02-24, 16:06
MiniGL's more of 3dfx's stopgap idea really. GLQuake was made on proper OpenGL hardware (Intergraphs) on NT at the time. Carmack had big Trinity (id Tech 3's early codename) plans set later that year with intent for requiring full GL spec compliance (Q3TEST flushing MiniGL for good 2 years later) …
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