Re: Sound cards - from best to worst
Posted on 2011-05-04, 02:12
Yes it's totally subjective! I know people that prefer the Creative OPL3 Clone on the AWE64. Whatever makes you happy!
Re: OMG cheese!
Posted on 2011-05-03, 11:43
Pizza FTW for sure... Regarding cheese, I don't have a great cheese pallet. I like my good old cheddar cheese on toast. Hmmmmmmm
Re: OMG cheese!
Posted on 2011-05-03, 08:21
🤣 VOGONS profiling: GXL750 loves Vodka and Brie 🤣 My contribution: OMG Pizza
Re: MT-32 will not receive programed sounds from sierra games. USING orig mt-32 with MQX-32 mpu-ipc on a 486.
Posted on 2011-05-03, 01:25
Address 330 is the default. Pretty much all games look at that address. Some games allow you to specify an address, such as 300 or 260 in your case, but not all games have this option. 330 "just works" and with every game...
Re: MT-32 will not receive programed sounds from sierra games. USING orig mt-32 with MQX-32 mpu-ipc on a 486.
Posted on 2011-05-03, 01:06
Awesome! Sometimes a good nights sleep is all it takes LOL Basically what you want to do next is either disable, or configure the MPU401 of the AWE32 to something other than 330. 300 for example. On the AWE64 you can use CTCU to reconfigure resources and even disable the MPU401 port. This might be …
Re: MT-32 will not receive programed sounds from sierra games. USING orig mt-32 with MQX-32 mpu-ipc on a 486.
Posted on 2011-05-02, 08:41
collector wrote: Well, you need the audio out from the MT-32 to audio in of an amplifier or the sound card. You are of course correct!
Re: Collecting ideas on optimizing video recording
Posted on 2011-05-02, 08:39
True, but AFAIK DOSBox uses some form of video compression. So the actual throughput requirements should be lower. Another tip is to make sure your capture file is on another drive. E.g. if C is your main Windows drive, make sure the capture file is on D. It's not recommended to capture with just a …
Re: Collecting ideas on optimizing video recording
Posted on 2011-05-02, 07:10
Also there might be other versions / builds of DOSBox better suited for video recording with more demanding settings. If found recording in 320 x 200 and with Sound Blaster option very reliable though. If the lagging issue with fraps could be resolved, that would be great. Because fraps has a lot of …
Re: MT-32 will not receive programed sounds from sierra games. USING orig mt-32 with MQX-32 mpu-ipc on a 486.
Posted on 2011-05-02, 06:15
Maybe someone else can tell us if this card is indeed Roland MPU401 compatible. Is there anything on the box or in the manual that might answer this question? Because some ISA Midi cards are for Windows and aren't MPU401 compatible anymore.
Re: Collecting ideas on optimizing video recording
Posted on 2011-05-02, 06:13
I was using the recording feature for a while, but when you record from an external source (Roland MT-32), the sound goes out of sync. Something to do with how DOSBox does the recording. I tried fraps (output has to be openglnb), but with this method you get sound stuttering. Nothing to do with PC …
Re: MT-32 will not receive programed sounds from sierra games. USING orig mt-32 with MQX-32 mpu-ipc on a 486.
Posted on 2011-05-02, 05:58
I did pull it though as you suggested and it results in total lose of the option to even pick roland mt-32 in the sierra setup Then the Music Quest isn't working, or isn't MPU401 compatible... Leave the AWE out and focus on getting the Music Quest going. EDIT: If there are jumpers / switches, make …
Re: MT-32 will not receive programed sounds from sierra games. USING orig mt-32 with MQX-32 mpu-ipc on a 486.
Posted on 2011-05-02, 05:35
Yea, pullout all cables. Only 1 cable you need: Music Quest MIDI - OUT > MT-32 MIDI - IN. No other cables! And don't init AWE32 just yet, cos you might have conflict with the MIDI port.
Re: MT-32 will not receive programed sounds from sierra games. USING orig mt-32 with MQX-32 mpu-ipc on a 486.
Posted on 2011-05-01, 23:05
Any chance you can take some pictures of everything? The way to hook it up is: MIDI-OUT from the Music Quest goes into MIDI-IN from the MT-32. And that's it. You could have a resource conflict with the AWE32, so make sure you resolve that. Try the Music Quest on it's own if you can. Here are 3 …
Re: Best (quiet) aftermarket coolers for (AGP) graphics cards
Posted on 2011-05-01, 14:17
Zalman and Arctic Cooling are the main companies. Googling a picture search for a model of a video card + zalman or arctic cooling should quickly give you results. e.g. radeon 9700 zalman For a while Arctic Cooling made this VGA Silencer products. IMO they are fantastic, but it was pointed out to me …
Re: Need advice about migrating Win7 x86 -> x64
Posted on 2011-05-01, 07:49
The challenge is to find applications which are available as 32 and 64 editions. If the benchmarks works with MS Office based applications, we will more or less investigate the performance impact of WOW64, which isn't what we want. Crysis is available in both versions, but AFAIK the 64 bit version …
Re: Need advice about migrating Win7 x86 -> x64
Posted on 2011-05-01, 07:32
Mau1wurf1977, don't you think it's about time to stop at this point? A "benchmark comparison" from 2004, done on a Sun machine running Solaris is not exactly what I would call good argumentation material (; . I think we all arrived at the same page now... But hey, if you want to dance some more, …
Re: Need advice about migrating Win7 x86 -> x64
Posted on 2011-05-01, 07:26
In my experience the performance hit of the WOW64 layer is so small as to be non-existent , especially on a fast quad core machine. Agreed! And for practicallity I totally agree with you guys! I also have W7 64 installed LOL But that context should be included! This guy did some benchmarking …
Re: Need advice about migrating Win7 x86 -> x64
Posted on 2011-05-01, 07:18
Er, no, I didn't say that at all. Good, just checking! A few milliseconds more or less are irrelevant. We're talking about a modern machine here, which means fast and large harddisks (compared to, for instance, the P4 era). Ah change of tune :) Now the question of relevance is another one. I …
Re: Need advice about migrating Win7 x86 -> x64
Posted on 2011-05-01, 07:12
SquallStrife wrote: Not because a 64 bit executable is intrinsically bigger. So you are saying 64 bit is smaller? Sure about that?
Re: Need advice about migrating Win7 x86 -> x64
Posted on 2011-05-01, 07:09
Yup, they are both cached after loading them a few times. But IE 64bit takes somewhat longer to launch. You can do a clean install of W7 32 bit, measure the time it takes to boot and then do the same with W7 64 bit. You will find that W7 32bit will boot a little bit faster. Do you have any other …
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