Re: Getting a little long in the tooth, but still plays all new games wide open

Posted on 2014-07-06, 12:49

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by ElectricMonk

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

honestly, water cooling is not worth it. Also raid 10 is horribly inefficient. Go raid 6. I'm after RAID 10, purely because I have 4TB worth of data I just can't afford to lose, ever. Not counting the $5K+ software packages I use, I've been making images of every 5-1/4, 3.5, CD-ROM, and DVD-9 I've …

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Re: MT-32/CM-32L ROM Versions

Posted on 2014-07-05, 20:49

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by ElectricMonk

in MT-32 General

in MT-32 General

ScummVM has added Munt into their project, but Munt is still an active stand alone project. Often, the Munt in ScummVM is outdated as Munt's development continues. The ROMs will do nothing for other synths, they are for Roland music only. If you want MT-32 music in DOSBox, you need a special build …

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Re: The Death Throes of Radio Shack

Posted on 2014-07-05, 20:29

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by ElectricMonk

in Milliways

in Milliways

For a nominal fee, they could always re-brand one as "Hz so Good" in the Galaxy Galleria. (my nick, elsewhere) They can make the royalty check out to "Electric Monk c/o Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"

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Re: MT-32/CM-32L ROM Versions

Posted on 2014-07-05, 20:17

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by ElectricMonk

in MT-32 General

in MT-32 General

Solarstorm wrote: Install MUNT. Munt got absorbed by the ScummVM orject. I was wondering if I could use a virtual synth driver, like BASS, Fluid Synth, or SGM instead of Microsoft GS wavetable eey

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Re: Getting a little long in the tooth, but still plays all new games wide open

Posted on 2014-07-05, 19:14

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by ElectricMonk

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I wouldn't call a machine with a Z68 chipset or a GCN GPU "long in the tooth" - that's almost brand new :lol: (some of those parts are less than 2 years old). Not saying it's a bad machine - it looks very nice on paper, and it absolutely should be running most things at pretty high settings (and …

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Re: MT-32/CM-32L ROM Versions

Posted on 2014-07-05, 17:05

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by ElectricMonk

in MT-32 General

in MT-32 General

Dominus wrote: You can't do that here. And you probably know why Theortically, supposing I was able to get the MT-32 and CM-32L LA-Patch ROMs and Control ROMs. What would it entail to get those to work within DosBox and/or ScummVM?

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Re: Help on maxing out my Conventional Memory

Posted on 2014-07-05, 16:51

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by ElectricMonk

in DOS

in DOS

Dakkiller wrote: Never Mind, i figured it out on my own At least it's not like the Ultima 7 "Voodoo Memory" from Origin Systems. Back in the day, that required special bootdisks, just to free enough Conventional Memory to let Voodoo load, and manage all mem above 640K.

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Re: Virtual GM/GS/XG synth that can be used with DosBox

Posted on 2014-07-05, 16:10

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by ElectricMonk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BASSMIDI doesn't include any soundfonts, but you can use as many as you want (I currently have six loaded on my Core i5 rig, 5 on Port A and 1 on Port B :happy: ). Most MIDI controllers, events and sysex messages are also supported. To connect a MIDI module to a modern PC, you can get a USB to MIDI …

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Re: Emulating XT or AT with 8 MHz and DOS

Posted on 2014-07-05, 15:52

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by ElectricMonk

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Hello I need to emulate a DOS PC XT or AT with a max of 8 MHz. (can also be slower but not faster) What I like to do is some programming of a Radio over the serial interface. I have a circuit wich changes the RS232-TTL signals vice versa but the signals may not to be sent over the serial interface …

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Re: Question about HIMEM.SYS and EMM386

Posted on 2014-07-05, 15:49

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by ElectricMonk

in DOS

in DOS

*EDIT* Removed for being wrong.

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Re: What's the big hold up with XBox emulation?

Posted on 2014-07-05, 15:39

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by ElectricMonk

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

long Story short, it's the NV2A (custom Geforce 3), and Soundstorm that are preventing this. nVidia and MS had bad blood over royalties, so the blame lies squarely in nVidia's court. Honestly, best thing to do it get an good, original Xbox, mod chip it and add a HUGE HDD. Copy games from HDD to …

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Re: Roland sound canvas vst?

Posted on 2014-07-05, 15:25

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by ElectricMonk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No, they (and Yamaha) stopped supporting their GS/XG virtual synth support with Win95/98. I've got a few questions in Marvin about new workaround for it.

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Re: AWE64 Gold on a 486?

Posted on 2014-07-05, 15:16

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by ElectricMonk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had to wait to use my AWE64, until I upgraded to a P2-300 machine. 440BX chipset

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Getting a little long in the tooth, but still plays all new games wide open

Posted on 2014-07-05, 15:13

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by ElectricMonk

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

i7-2600K Sandy Bridge stock clocked (going to get a closed loop waterblock system to take it to 4GHz and beyond 8 GB DDR3 1333 Ram Radeon 7950 3GB GDDR5 Asus P8Z68-V/Gen3 GigE NIC SSD OS drive 2 7200RPM 1TB drives 2 3 TB 5400 RPM WD drives for long term storage Built-in crap audio Multiple USB3 …

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Re: Problems With Logitech Dual Action Controller, DOSBox and Bioforge

Posted on 2014-07-05, 15:09

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by ElectricMonk

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Hmmm. I may have spoken too soon. I set up a few mappings in keymapper, and launched Bioforge. Some of the mappings worked correctly, but others did not. I exited Bioforge, went back into keymapper and found that the mappings I'd set up had completely changed. For example: I'd mapped button five to …

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Re: Problems With Logitech Dual Action Controller, DOSBox and Bioforge

Posted on 2014-07-05, 14:57

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by ElectricMonk

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

NOTE: I'm not entirely sure that this is a problem specific to Bioforge; it is the only game I'm currently working to configure. ...snip... I'm having some issues with configuring a Logitech Dual Action Controller with DOSBox; I'm attempting to disable the first analog joystick so that I can just …

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Re: Virtual GM/GS/XG synth that can be used with DosBox

Posted on 2014-07-05, 14:49

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by ElectricMonk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In case you are on a tight budget you can simply hook up a Sound Canvas or CM module. I was thinking about trying to get an MT-32, CM-64, or even an actual Sound Canvas module. Any idea how I'd connect those to a modern PC? i7-2600K Sandy Bridge Radeon 7950 3GB 8GB DDR3 Asus P8Z68-V/Gen 3 Mobo …

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Re: What are the best console emulators out there?

Posted on 2014-07-05, 14:27

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by ElectricMonk

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

bSNES Kega Fusion (for MD/Genesis/SegaCD) SSF is the best Saturn emulator at the moment (you sometimes have to fiddle with the region BIOS) ePSXe and PSX fpr PS1 (some ISOs work better in one, than the other) newest PCSX2 for PS2 Neo Rage is the best for Neo-Geo AES and MVS (I forget how to get Neo- …

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Virtual GM/GS/XG synth that can be used with DosBox

Posted on 2014-07-05, 01:14

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by ElectricMonk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ages ago, Roland and yamaha used to offer virtual GS/XG synths that installed as windows subsystem drivers, but they haven't been supported since XP went EOL. I found VirtualMIDISynth, but to no avail. My reasons for wanting to try this, is because my old, craptacular Pro Media Spectrum card had an …

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