Re: DOS BOX full screen issue

Posted on 2020-08-21, 07:04

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by digistorm

in DOSBox General

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fullresolution =original can also ruin the party, when your graphics card or monitor don’t support the original resolution. Better to set the fullresolution to your panel resolution in that case.

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.75e

Posted on 2020-08-20, 13:20

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by digistorm

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Ok, let's try some things: (1)- Run UNISOUND /C2 /F (or UNISOUND /CL /F) and let me know if that changed something or not (now /F is an undocumented option, for testing) Interesting… When I run UNISOUND /C2 straight after boot, it says: Card #1 [PNP0060] Skipped. No PnP sound card detected. When I …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.75e

Posted on 2020-08-20, 11:51

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by digistorm

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in Marvin \ Sound

That's weird, because I could not reproduce that behaviour... I tested 3 different AWE64 cards on 2 different systems (486 without PnP BIOS and Pentium with PnP BIOS) and everything worked fine. I initialize with UNISOUND, then I run MIXERSET, changed some vols, exit, and then UNISOUND could …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.75e

Posted on 2020-08-20, 09:55

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by digistorm

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in Marvin \ Sound

I have a question about the AWE64 support. If I use UNISOUND to initialise it, and after that I use Creative's mixerset app (to have a graphical UI to set the mixer or to set controls that UNISOUND does not support) then after that UNISOUND can no longer see the AWE64 even though it still works fine …

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Re: GLX Player the only XT player ? Check Mod Master...

Posted on 2020-08-20, 05:11

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by digistorm

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I second that. Even playback of other formats has soms small bugs still, and it is less stable. But of all players it is the one with the best allround support until now. Well maybe it can be replaced by a new player that is actively developed, one day…

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Re: Widescreen monitors and 4:3 aspect ratio compatibility thread

Posted on 2020-08-19, 07:38

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by digistorm

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have an old Dell 15” TFT monitor with VGA only and it does do 70Hz no problem. I think it also has to do with the panel resolution. 1024x768 is not a lot of pixels so it is easier to do the math 70 times a second. With 1200p panels, it is rare to see > 60Hz processing because you need to push much …

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Re: Apparent ground loop between devices connected to a single AC circuit (same outlet, actually)

Posted on 2020-08-14, 07:50

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by digistorm

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in Marvin \ Sound

O no, phantom power is pretty common on all XLR inputs on a mixer. Unless you call XLR inputs mic inputs, that’s incorrect. DI boxes are designed to take phantom power because this is so ubiquitous and they are also used to connect keyboards, electric drumkits and laptops that are used more and …

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Re: Apparent ground loop between devices connected to a single AC circuit (same outlet, actually)

Posted on 2020-08-13, 06:20

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by digistorm

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O no, phantom power is pretty common on all XLR inputs on a mixer. Unless you call XLR inputs mic inputs, that’s incorrect. DI boxes are designed to take phantom power because this is so ubiquitous and they are also used to connect keyboards, electric drumkits and laptops that are used more and more …

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Re: Apparent ground loop between devices connected to a single AC circuit (same outlet, actually)

Posted on 2020-08-11, 06:52

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by digistorm

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in Marvin \ Sound

It could be any other lead connected to your PC carrying ground. Like the VGA cable or maybe even a Ethernet lead that uses shielding.

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Re: IDE to Compact Flash not working

Posted on 2020-08-10, 07:54

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by digistorm

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I experienced with my 486 board that the BIOS is just dumb and seems to overflow in multiple locations considering IDE detection and storing of BIOS parameters. Some variables overflow at 2047, some at 1023… it may well be that the BIOS just doesn’t like drives larger than 504 or 1023 MB or 2047 ( …

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Re: Slow compact flash adapter performance

Posted on 2020-08-03, 10:13

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by digistorm

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I actually never get higher speeds on my 486 even with a more modern hard drive (32 GB IBM). What speed do you get with your hard drive in that benchmark?

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Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-07-29, 09:21

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by digistorm

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in Milliways

Don't forget that you could also download a disk image, open it and drag-and-drop the application to an alias of your apps folder. You sometimes need to right-click the app one time to open it and you are not hindered by Apples walled garden (until Apple has another evil plan and kills off this loop …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2020-07-29, 08:00

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I personally don't think it has to do with "purist" so much as that such limited hardware is really punished and under-utilised with a general (literally) MIDI track. That is why you see that on many limited platforms (8 and 16 bit consoles, Amiga) trackers were used to make the most of it. General …

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Re: GLX Player the only XT player ? Check Mod Master...

Posted on 2020-07-28, 16:11

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by digistorm

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He explained it here : Where did you get the code from? From the Triton people themselves? Perhaps they want to share the code with me, being a fellow-scener. From Vogue and Mr.H after some long dialogs, convincing them that it would help me with my FT2 clone development. The code I got from them is …

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Re: GLX Player the only XT player ? Check Mod Master...

Posted on 2020-07-27, 17:38

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by digistorm

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in Marvin \ Sound

I think for a GUSpnp you should use the FT2 builds that are shared here ( Fasttracker 2.12 for MS-DOS ) on this forum by 8bitbubsy because the last official build has broken GUS support by trying to add GUSpnp functionality.

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Re: GLX Player the only XT player ? Check Mod Master...

Posted on 2020-07-26, 19:48

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Yeah, Purple Motion seems to have counted on the cut off when the max pitch is reached for this weird effect. He actually uses different notes each time to have a different glitch sound with a different length also. Very crafty 😉 Cubic Player seems to do the portamento effects fine, but butchers the …

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Re: GLX Player the only XT player ? Check Mod Master...

Posted on 2020-07-25, 23:04

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by digistorm

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in Marvin \ Sound

If you mean the phase/chorus effects, it’s because some samples are played at two channels at once to increase the total volume in the mix. That is fine with software mixing on a Sound Blaster (which is what the music was written for) but on a GUS the play commands for the two channels vary slightly …

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Re: Creative Labs Port Blaster

Posted on 2020-07-22, 08:18

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by digistorm

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in Marvin \ Sound

Why would it be "hard" to support, if even real time demos and a music tracker like Fast Tracker 2 support it (Covox that is) while dealing with (for the time) heavy calculations and Fast Tracker 2 also responding to real time inputs at the same time? It would hurt CPU performance, but you were …

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Re: GUS PnP support in Epic Silverball and Pinball?

Posted on 2020-07-10, 17:57

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in Marvin \ Sound

About the mixer settings: If the pc speaker input could also be controlled than that would be great. I myself also use the Interwave chip with trackers so I needed those extra lines as well. Also, some other tools suddenly don’t work if you don’t have all the environment variables, like the pnpmix. …

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Re: GUS PnP support in Epic Silverball and Pinball?

Posted on 2020-07-10, 16:45

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in Marvin \ Sound

I use these lines to initialize my GUSpnp: Filename B9BBBA6F-C38B-489A-8505-12B4D47684E1.jpeg File size 83.75 KiB Views 863 views

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