Re: Ruined memory of an old game by playing it!

Posted on 2021-02-15, 03:18

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by ElBrunzy

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space quest 1 vga remake. I was happy to take the time to redo it recently, as I had found memory of it but never played it much. Although, for some reason it felt rushed and buggy. I had more fun redoing space quest 3 just a tad before. Please do not flame me, I'm just answering the topic with a …

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SoundBlaster 1.x line-out

Posted on 2021-02-14, 22:45

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by ElBrunzy

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I have a computer build with an mt32, guspnp and sb1.5. I hooked the mt32 into the line-in of the guspnp. The sb1.5 output directly to my receiver since I bought it for an SAA1099 project. But as times goes, I end up wanting to play games using the mt32 for music and soundblaster for audio. And I …

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Re: SBVGM (DOS) VGM Player

Posted on 2021-02-13, 02:20

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by ElBrunzy

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in Release Announcements

I did a audio comparison of a SN76489 (left) and SAA1099 (right) recording using a tndy nano v1.0 card by matze79 that's built around an SN76489 and a soundblaster 1.5 with saa1099 addon. I used sbvgm.exe v1.33 by to play a list of music since it support both cards. I added a pause in between each …

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Re: sb live! disable sb16 emulation

Posted on 2021-01-28, 02:04

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by ElBrunzy

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in Marvin \ Sound

@ DNSDies : I think why I have a different behavior than your is maybe because I installed many variant and updates of the sblive! drivers before finding one that was working (my main problem actually is that another audio device was being default on windows making crash the creative tools). I …

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Re: sb live! disable sb16 emulation

Posted on 2021-01-26, 20:49

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by ElBrunzy

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in Marvin \ Sound

Thanks for your help DNSDies, although a search on the internet about that registry lead me to believe this registry key belong to the audigy and not the live card (also I think there is a space in CreativeTech). I made further search on the registry cleaning everything related to sb16. Also the …

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sb live! disable sb16 emulation

Posted on 2021-01-26, 17:04

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by ElBrunzy

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in Marvin \ Sound

I have an sb live! only to enjoy the em10k chip on windows 98 for midi playback and on dos for live module player. There is other card in that computer that handle the legacy SB job perfectly so I wanted to get rid of sb16 emulation since it's pretty crowded in here. On dos using "sbeset -d1" to …

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

Posted on 2021-01-26, 16:06

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by ElBrunzy

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Just to follow up Carlostex on page 13, I have a ews64 l (it's an XL board but no front panel). I was all happy to install unisound on that computer (it share a sblive and a tandy nano) since I like your program so much as it saved my hide in the past and isa/pnp setup feel tidy after with a nice …

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Re: why sb emulation require virtual 86 mode

Posted on 2021-01-17, 02:41

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by ElBrunzy

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in Marvin \ Sound

yes I'm not surprised you bring that excellent malik thread and I always wondered about that sb link thing. Are you suggesting it is important in the sb emulation virtual real mode equation ?

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Re: why sb emulation require virtual 86 mode

Posted on 2021-01-17, 01:56

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by ElBrunzy

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in Marvin \ Sound

oh wow now that's good news and thank you a lot for you very professional explanation. Now we will need to build a list of pci soundcard that provide that emulation in real mode. I think it's safe to say that the sblive does not. I have a yamaha 724 and now I'm totally wondering if it does. Post …

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Re: why sb emulation require virtual 86 mode

Posted on 2021-01-16, 17:41

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by ElBrunzy

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in Marvin \ Sound

If I understand what you suggest right is that a sb emulation TSR all have to do is capture the DMA call and that would explain it's small 2~5kb footprint. I can agree that DMA writes need the processor to be in virtual mode for being intercepted, but does that mean it could be possible to emulate …

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why sb emulation require virtual 86 mode

Posted on 2021-01-16, 16:04

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by ElBrunzy

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in Marvin \ Sound

I think all pci soundcard that provide soundblaster emulation require the use of having the cpu in virtual 8086 mode. This disable running good titles as zone66 video game or crystal dream ][ demo, to name a few. So I guess it was somehow impossible to provide sb emulation while having the cpu in …

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Re: vic20 minimal connector for test

Posted on 2021-01-13, 03:55

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by ElBrunzy

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for that Horun, I did not had found in my previous research that sleepingelephant.com wiki link you gave me. But anyway I think I will declare it game-over for that computer. I found information that goes the same way as we think that the logic is 5v and some mechanical devices where on the …

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Re: vic20 minimal connector for test

Posted on 2021-01-12, 22:50

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by ElBrunzy

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I start to think the vic20 really need it's 9v AC line, unlike the amiga it seem the vic20/c64 need both voltages all the time. Horun I have the "cost reduced" version of the board so the PSU need to provide 5v DC and 9v AC. I read you can easily edit a 12v DC into a 9V AC by bypassing the diodes …

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Re: vic20 minimal connector for test

Posted on 2021-01-10, 07:55

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by ElBrunzy

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

this is better picture http://junkskool.net/images/photos/wifi/20210 … 49_IMG_0578.JPG

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

Posted on 2021-01-10, 06:01

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by ElBrunzy

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@fool out of nothing, I'm just curious, how did you took your pictures ? they seem a bit different from what we use to see.

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vic20 minimal connector for test

Posted on 2021-01-10, 04:59

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by ElBrunzy

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got a vic20 a friend found on a trashcan and pick it up for me. It was modified so the previous owner added switch that seem to cut or enable lines to the RAM from the cartridge port, I assume it allow him to cheat on some video games by disabling acces to the RAM at given time. I want to see if …

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Re: Which old game would you like to see a remastered version of?

Posted on 2021-01-07, 08:28

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by ElBrunzy

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in Milliways

There is that Amiga game called Flag I saw some preview screenshot on a magazine back then. I just drooled on the magazine pages, this game had everything I ever dreamed of : isometric projection graphic, capture the flag gameplay and what one could consider an open-world to explore back then. So I …

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

Posted on 2020-12-28, 08:15

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by ElBrunzy

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

thank you so much, Caluser2000, I hate to be the single user of a new forum page.

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

Posted on 2020-12-28, 07:52

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by ElBrunzy

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I hate those socket board there they put 2 16 bit isa board that will get in the way of the cpu heat sink !

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

Posted on 2020-12-26, 06:10

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by ElBrunzy

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

yes, I was a bit insulted she think I could mistake golden axe with ghouls and ghost. But she was right since I was talking about arcade in attract mode in the '80s plane port where golden axe and ghoul and ghost cabinet where many presents. I guess you arent ready for that yet, but I guess your …

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