Re: ScummVM 2.1.0

Posted on 2019-10-21, 00:26

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Oh wow, Blade Runner! That was one of the most beautiful and atmospheric adventure games I've ever played. Great to see that game supported in ScummVM. Time to dust off my original game CDs. :) And Quest for Glory IV is good timing as well, just before Halloween. Well done, developers! Also, you …

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Re: Help! MT-32 Music runs fine, the Sound Efx is weird!!!

Posted on 2019-10-21, 00:12

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Also, many games (unfortunately) did not allow for the music and digital audio to be configured on separate sound devices. Gods was one of those games. Either you would have FM music with digital audio (if you let it use a Sound Blaster), or MT-32 music without digital audio. For some such games, …

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Re: Help! MT-32 Music runs fine, the Sound Efx is weird!!!

Posted on 2019-10-21, 00:08

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Have you tried configuring MUNT to emulate a Roland CM-32L or CM-64 instead of a regular MT-32? Those later models added 33 sound effect samples specifically for games. The MT-32 lacks those samples. Not all games make use of those sound effects, but some of them do. Give it a try. See also http:// …

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Re: AdLib Gold Boxed

Posted on 2019-10-06, 14:56

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Hurts when I see this. :) I sold mine (boxed as well) approximately 10 years ago for 150 euros or so... Well, you might comfort yourself in the knowledge that it would still be nothing compared to what you would have today, had you bought 150 euros worth of Bitcoin back in those days. I'm not …

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Re: VCF Pacific Northwest 2020: March 21st and 22nd!

Posted on 2019-10-06, 14:42

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According to the overview on http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/, there is an annual Vintage Computer Festival in Italy. 😀 There's a separate topic in the VCFED forum for that. I've inquired there.

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Re: Open Source i386 BIOSes?

Posted on 2019-10-06, 10:06

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I'm using SeaBIOS in my emulator, but if I remember correctly it relies on the remapping support in the chipset to decompress itself to RAM. Ah, that probably explains why I couldn't get the SeaBIOS image to work with the emulated machine types in PCEm that I tried it with. There is also an image …

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Re: ethflop - a network-backed floppy emulator for DOS

Posted on 2019-10-05, 16:21

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Not at all. ethflop does not emulate a floppy controller - what it does, is emulating a floppy BIOS by intercepting int 13h requests. It's a kind of 'overlay' that goes on top of the machine's BIOS, effectively replacing it for floppy requests. Ah, at the BIOS level. Got it. :blush: ethflop is …

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Re: Nexgen - the Pentium killer - WIP

Posted on 2019-10-05, 16:05

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It's nice to see you push the envelope, though. 😉 Intel played it safe by having their i486DX2 run the bus at just 33 MHz.

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Re: 64-bit dynamic_x86 (patch)

Posted on 2019-10-05, 15:53

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time for core haxm :) I would love to see an optional hardware-assisted hypervisor core in DOSBox! :happy: Unfortunately, the DOSBox developers and maintainers have stated that they won't ever be going the virtualization route, for philosophical reasons. It's a shame, though. Having something like …

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Re: Nexgen - the Pentium killer - WIP

Posted on 2019-10-05, 15:29

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Cool build! So what's the FSB speed that this CPU runs on? Isn't 40MHz or so the maximum you can push VESA Local Bus on decent motherboards, without losing stability?

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Re: VCF Pacific Northwest 2020: March 21st and 22nd!

Posted on 2019-10-05, 14:59

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Sounds like fun! :) Not entirely on-topic perhaps, but does anybody know of any similar vintage computer festivals or conventions being planned in Europe? I have a feeling such an event would draw quite a crowd on this side of the Atlantic as well. Ditto for many other parts of the globe, of course. …

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Re: VMware DOS sound improved.. now is finally possible to play FX + FM together!

Posted on 2019-10-05, 14:54

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Good! Now if only the Sound Blaster 16 and OPL3 emulation code in VirtualBox would receive some more love. Why not just take the best open source sound card emulatoin code that's out there (probably from DOSBox) and port that over to VirtualBox? I've been looking into developing a third-party open …

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Re: SB Pro2 + GUS Classic (for the hundredth time!)

Posted on 2019-10-05, 14:31

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This is what I found in the Mega-Em FAQ: QUESTION: Could Mega-Em be modified so it does not require a 386 memory manager, and hence work with software such as Comanche, Ultima 7 etc. ? ANSWER: No. Mega-Em requires 386 protected mode for it's emulation to operate. It uses the memory manager as a …

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Re: SB Pro2 + GUS Classic (for the hundredth time!)

Posted on 2019-10-05, 14:07

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I believe I read something about that, recently. Apparently, the Sound Blaster emulation on the GUS is more or less "hardware-assisted". Yes, SBOS is a software emulator, but instead of relying on I/O port trapping (which would require at least a 386 and wouldn't work with protected mode games), the …

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Re: ethflop - a network-backed floppy emulator for DOS

Posted on 2019-10-05, 13:58

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Cool! Thanks for sharing this with the world! :) This makes things so much easier. No GoTek floppy emulator required, and no messing with USB sticks either. Just read the "floppy" straight from the network. Genius! I wonder if this code could be modified to provide Sound Blaster emulation over a …

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Re: Open Source i386 BIOSes?

Posted on 2019-10-05, 13:38

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I hope you can find one that is both compatible and truly open source! :) Not only would that possibly help you out with your problem, it would also allow PCEm to be legally distributed with such a BIOS. The Compaq Deskpro 386 is one of the machines that PCEm can emulate, but it requires the ( …

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Re: Rudolph Loew apparently passed away in September 2019

Posted on 2019-10-05, 10:21

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I have to admit that I hadn't heard of Rudolph Loew. He was clearly a talented, skilled and enthusiastic software engineer to work on such amazing projects. My sincere condolences to his loved ones. May he Rest in Peace. It's good to see his software being safeguarded and published in his name. …

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Re: I got Dune II working with the Disney Sound Source!

Posted on 2019-10-04, 23:40

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For what it's worth, AIL natively supports the use of DIGPAK drivers. Because of that, I've found that adding Covox Speech Thing, Disney Sound Source, Tandy DAC, etc. support to otherwise non-supporting AIL titles is just a matter of installing/configuring a game for Sound Blaster playback, and …

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Re: Games with better Disney Sound Source support?

Posted on 2019-10-04, 00:40

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Update: It worked! I got Dune II working with an emulated Disney Sound Source in PCEm. 😀 See I got Dune II working with the Disney Sound Source!

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Re: Is there a example of what a "VESA MIDI" device is?

Posted on 2019-10-04, 00:40

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Update: It worked! 😀 See I got Dune II working with the Disney Sound Source!

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