Re: Can anybody with AC'97 audio please help me test a DOS player? 😊

Posted on 2022-01-11, 15:28

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Nice to read that there is definitely demand for such a driver or emulator. :slightly_smiling_face: I haven't gotten around to working on this further lately. I've been juggling multipole retro programming hobbies on the side occasionally. Let's see if I can find some time to pick up this project …

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Re: Choosing a good ADC for recording from MIDI synthesizers?

Posted on 2022-01-03, 00:53

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Maybe because instruments are often not used on their own, and syncing up multiple digital sound outputs is not possible with plain spdif. Their are other solutions for that. At first I was a bit confused by your answer, but then I realized that by "instruments" you meant the entire MIDI modules, …

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Re: Roland MT32 - Direct Connection to Serial / COM1 SoftMPU

Posted on 2022-01-02, 17:40

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Well, to be fair to you, it was indeed confusing that Roland decided to include a serial cable with a male 25-pin connector instead of a female one, which would have made much more sense, and wouldn't have required either another cable or a gender changer.

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Re: Choosing a good ADC for recording from MIDI synthesizers?

Posted on 2022-01-02, 14:07

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Needless to say, in the case of a (fully) digital synthesizer, such as wavetable synthesizers, the ideal mode of recording would be to find a way to tap into the rendered digital stream before it gets converted to analog. Of course that would likely require some soldering. That also makes me wonder …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2022-01-02, 01:24

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🎵 Like a gust of wind you head me off sometimes Like a gust of wind you push me back every once in a while Like a gust of wind you remind me there's someone up there Who ushers in the air I need to power my sail 🎵 https://open.spotify.com/track/5m6F6glTwHhsolaKD0gGu0?si=ffb713c42bc247ee By the way, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-29, 19:15

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More goodies, this plastic box said laptop ram ddr2 so I assumed that's what it was but it was actually a bunch of processors wrapped in bubble wrap. There's several Core 2 duo's, Pentium 4's and Athlon 64 processors! Most notable are an E8400 and a socket 478 P4 3.2. LOL, for a brief moment there …

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Re: IDE CD-ROM driver on a IBM PC AT 80286?

Posted on 2021-12-23, 22:17

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Okay. I get it. I'm silent now. However, I still don't understand that atmosphere. Years ago, people at Vogons usually would have had replied with "thanks for the tip", "interesting idea" etc.. To my defense, I merely came here to help. I haven't posted at Vogons for a longer time, also. Never mind …

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Re: EGA DOS benchmarks?

Posted on 2021-12-23, 21:11

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Funny timing though... Here we are a little over 3 years since I posted this, and the day before you posted this I sorted through my now-much-larger video card collection. I now have so many dedicated EGA\CGA cards and VGA+EGA cards that I must have a pretty large percentage of the different EGA- …

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Re: Newly made PCMCIA sound card

Posted on 2021-12-15, 21:44

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I guess it's indeed not really a big deal, since there are no protected mode games in existence that require Intelligent Mode support for MIDI output, at least as far as I know. So something like SoftMPU would indeed suffice for those few real mode games that do require it. That's not to say that it …

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Re: Another PS/2 Mouse ISA (ISA8) card adapter

Posted on 2021-12-13, 18:30

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You always know you're working on a really awesome project with high demand when you see multiple newbies (or longtime lurkers?) inquiring about it in the first post they make on the forum. 😁 Welcome all! 🙂

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Re: Games that uses the CM-32L specific sound effects

Posted on 2021-12-01, 01:13

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I wonder how hard it would be to mod a Roland MT-32 so that it would also include and support those CM-32L/LAPC-1 sound effects. I believe I remember reading somewhere that it was more complicated than simply reflashing or replacing an EPROM. I'm not sure why. Alternatively, perhaps it would be …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2021-12-01, 01:07

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Perhaps the SD controller is exposed to DOS through a BIOS extension without being compatible with an actual IDE controller at the hardware level?

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2021-12-01, 01:03

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darry wrote on 2021-11-27, 05:29: IMHO, being sensitive to the plight of others helps makes us better people AND helps make the world a better place for everyone . Agree wholeheartedly. ❤️

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2021-11-27, 21:44

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If the SD card controller is exposed to the OS as a PCI IDE controller (even a standard one), it should be using 32-bit drivers. Mu0n, can you (or somebody else here with a weeCee running Windows 98SE) perhaps share a screenshot here of the Device Manager tab in the System Properties window, with …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-11-23, 22:13

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Got this Disney Sound Source for a good price. Surprisingly these pop up on eBay quite often and for reasonable price. DSS.jpg Good to know! I've been wanting to get my hands on one of these myself. I'll be on the lookout for them. The Disney Sound Source is, as far as I know, the best-supported …

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Re: ACTION REWIND: a clone of the original IBM PC Action Replay card

Posted on 2021-11-20, 14:58

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As if the cloning and recreation of such a product wasn't awesome enough, you also clearly went through great effort to make the PCBs look so clean and elegant. Great job! It's not a priority for me to get one of these right now, but I'm sure they're going to sell like hotcakes.

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Re: Windows Me - "Misunderstood Edition"

Posted on 2021-11-08, 19:34

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zapbuzz wrote on 2021-10-18, 14:24: Wouldn't it be interesting to have a 64bit DOS based windows with EXFAT drive supprt only without ntfs etc. Believe it or not, but someone is actually working on a 64-bit DOS kernel that could be a piece of such a puzzle. 🙂

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Re: Is this EGA card any good

Posted on 2021-10-31, 16:15

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The presence of a 25 MHz clock generator raises the possibility that this EGA card could be capable of driving non-standard "CGA Plus" 640x400 monitors typically used by Olivetti M24 (AT&T 6300) PCs.

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Re: One year anniversary of NVIDIA "cancelling" their old tech demos

Posted on 2021-10-26, 20:47

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MacDonald's is currently fighting a demand for half a billion dollars in compensation for sex harassment. This is no joke. And obviously the plaintiff, even if victorious, will never be awarded anywhere near that amount. Stories like this don't negate the fact that sexual harassment is a serious …

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Re: Fortex: Vortex2+YMF744

Posted on 2021-10-26, 20:33

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Side note, not exactly related to the present card: as this card needs a PCI bridge anyway (to drive both the Aureal and the Yamaha) in theory your design could be modified to use a PCIe-to-PCI bridge and thus create some PCIe cousin of this card if somebody is interested in such a thing? (I dont …

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