Re: MT32 and General MIDI?

Posted on 2016-11-09, 15:36

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...or you can have a .BAT file launching the game which would override your standard .config from the command line, like config -set "midi midiconfig=x" This way you can have a standard configuration for most of your games and explicitly change it for the ones that support MT-32 (or whatever is less …

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Re: EMS driver, not sure where to start

Posted on 2016-11-06, 14:07

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You are most probably looking for some .SYS file which came with the PC to include in config.sys. At least that's how it was done most of the times for 286s.

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2016-11-05, 08:48

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VileRancour wrote: Zyclunt (aka Blade Warrior) Indeed!

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2016-11-04, 18:40

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2016-11-04, 09:49

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I knew I had seen this before and really bothered me that I couldn't remember the game. It came to me finally 😉 It's the intro from Alien Incident!

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Re: Scored P3TDE6 with two 1.4 GHz PIII-S's!

Posted on 2016-10-28, 19:09

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candle_86 wrote: PCI-X Heads-up appreciated!

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Re: Scored P3TDE6 with two 1.4 GHz PIII-S's!

Posted on 2016-10-28, 18:08

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Wow, that's something to lay your eyes on twice. What's with the white slots that look like pci but obviously aren't the normal kind? First time I see those, am I missing an important part of history? That's a server board, right? I mean not something that could work as a server but really intended …

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Re: Wrong colors with CGA composite, how to fix/check it?

Posted on 2016-10-28, 15:26

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I was researching why an ATI Small Wonder delivers wrong colors when connected through composite and I couldn't believe I found the exact thread with answers here :) I don't have (or it's likely to find) a color RGBI monitor, so my intention was to just use the composite connection to a LCD TV …

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Re: Hard Drive Type?

Posted on 2016-10-25, 06:12

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I didn't know there were 486s without a user hdd type in BIOS. In fact I still don't believe it 🤣

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Re: How to stop 'computer thinking' noise?

Posted on 2016-10-20, 10:36

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Inside there are two isolation transformers with 1:1 turn ratio simply to galvanically isolate the interconnected equipment. The AC sound transferred magnetically through the transformer... like magic no wires. The source of the hum/noise these isolation transformers fix is usually ground loops …

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Re: Iomega ZIP drive - format disk in DOS?

Posted on 2016-10-18, 06:07

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I performed Tech Support for iomega back in 1998-1999. Zip and Jazz drives are garbage. Pure garbage. Unless you just want to own one to say you did I would just forget they existed. Horrible hardware that would always break and take all data with it. Agree, I was also working at support those …

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Schneider Funbox

Posted on 2016-10-15, 21:11

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Let’s discuss/learn more about Schneider’s Funbox. For the many not familiar with it, Schneider was selling a gaming package at the time of EuroPC. It consisted of the analog joystick itself obviously, a two-port game card, a 16-page manual and a “Funbox Game-Disc”. funbox2.jpg Mine came with a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-10-15, 11:30

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ElementalChaos wrote: It's really slow at 115200 baud (around 0.8MB a minute) but it's better than nothing. At least now I know the approximate pain of downloading software from a BBS of the time.. hehehe nice! But still modems only went as far as half that speed in their best version 😉

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Re: Don't you love it when the manual is wrong?

Posted on 2016-10-15, 11:26

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I'm guessing you're just running it out of specs though.

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Re: I got some CDs. But how is the quality?

Posted on 2016-10-14, 19:50

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Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote: I found the best CD I've heard so far is Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits. Man, you hear well 😉 I wouldn't say it's the best, but surely competes as such. And yes, you are very correct about the reason it sounds like that.

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Re: I got some CDs. But how is the quality?

Posted on 2016-10-14, 05:53

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Another parameter: for really old albums initially released only in vinyl (not parallel release), mastering was done with that in mind. When they did get a cd release, it often sounded terrible. But yeah. as it was very accurately put above it all comes down to mastering. If it sounds very dumb and …

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Re: What makes real hardware.. "real"?

Posted on 2016-10-12, 06:49

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Nobody mentioned nostalgia yet? Nostalgia about using the exact same keyboard/monitor/home computer as when you were 10/15/20 years old

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Re: Encarta 95 - Different versions?

Posted on 2016-10-11, 19:40

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s0ren wrote: Kokkino asteri? hahaha seriously? kudos (since we're talking Greek!) for getting into the trouble to translate this 🤣 🤣 Yep, it's that red star with multiple spikes having some written text inside

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Re: Encarta 95 - Different versions?

Posted on 2016-10-11, 16:26

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Pretty irrelevant since the OP's issue is solved, but for what it matters Encarta 95 did have more than one revisions. I was working in a computer store back then and, of course, this was a big thing in the first multimedia PCs era so we were ordering copies like crazy. Parents buying their …

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Re: Best OS for each below build

Posted on 2016-10-11, 16:09

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Let me throw in some examples: I do have a P1 MMX PX only with DOS + 3dfx, just because I wanted a PC excelling in late dos games. But I also have a 486 with Win95, just because I wanted an "original"/time correct build, so I put DOS in the most recent one and Win95 on the least powerful. Then many …

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