Re: Nice 8-bit Soundcard

Posted on 2018-12-18, 01:43

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Any chance you can provide a recording off of it? If they're clone chips like SW-SSG says they are then I'm quite curious to hear how they hold up under the scrutiny of something like Dune. To make things easier you can find a program to play OPL2 VGM files here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php …

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Re: Planet X3 by 8-Bit Guy nearing completion! New teaser & music

Posted on 2018-12-17, 23:09

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@speedyspcfan will you get in touch with the team, to ask for possible MT32 support, maybe after release? I doubt Dave will change anything now. I can ask if it's possible though I don't think a lot will happen post-release, besides maybe bug fixes... though everyone was pretty thorough in testing. …

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Re: Planet X3 by 8-Bit Guy nearing completion! New teaser & music

Posted on 2018-12-17, 23:02

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In practice, yes I suppose so. OPL2 or OPL3 would require more data to do the same things, in most cases. There may be exceptions in theory, but in practice I don't think panning, volume and pitch bend are changed all that much in realtime. Generally it's fire-and-forget. And as I said, it is …

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Re: Planet X3 by 8-Bit Guy nearing completion! New teaser & music

Posted on 2018-12-17, 21:14

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Well, while it's true that MT-32 was expensive at the time, I would say that MT-32 is less resource-hungry than OPL2. MIDI requires only one byte to play a note really (you can re-use the note-on command bytes via 'running state', and note-on with a velocity of 0 is equal to a note-off, so note-on …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2018-12-17, 16:38

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MusicallyInspired wrote: What's the other game you got? You need to get Breath of the Wild. Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I know, I have BotW and Smash on my "to-get" list.

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Re: Planet X3 by 8-Bit Guy nearing completion! New teaser & music

Posted on 2018-12-17, 16:17

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For everyone asking: MT-32 support was wanted by the whole team, but the target computers for the game was always the lower end XT and Tandy type machines (VGA mode was only added because people constantly requested it... and I'll admit that I'm very happy it was added :lol:). So between it being …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2018-12-17, 05:04

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Well, I ended up buying one of those new fandangled Nintendo Switch consoles and picked up a few games with it. I don't keep any decent HDTVs around so I have it hooked up to my computer monitor, sooo... looks like I'll be working through the whopping two games I got for it right now, starting with …

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Re: Planet X3 by 8-Bit Guy nearing completion! New teaser & music

Posted on 2018-12-17, 00:34

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The Adlib version sounds kinda muffled to me, it comes across like everything aside from the leads has some kind of low-pass filter on it. A snappier snare and a bit more definition "bass guitar" would go a long way, and a closed hat if you could work it in - I understand what you have to work with …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2018-12-16, 18:24

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liqmat wrote: Is there something wrong with the GOG version? It's on sale right now as well. I would just grab that version, I played through it a while back and it's a very, very good re-release of the game. Has all of the content of the N64 version as well if you want additional levels.

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Re: Planet X3 by 8-Bit Guy nearing completion! New teaser & music

Posted on 2018-12-16, 05:30

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looks nice! if i wanted to play this on metal what would it require? either im blind or it does not tell; also the scrollig speed kinda changes a lot? i do wonder a bit that its smaller than dune2.. I'm not sure what you mean by "on metal"... if you mean on real hardware, anything that has a 4. …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2018-12-16, 02:56

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clueless1 wrote: I'm looking forward to this one...just waiting for a sale on it. How long was the game? About how many hours do you think it took to finish? I'd wager somewhere around the 15 hour mark. It definitely took me a while to get through.

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Re: Roland SC-55 Music Packs

Posted on 2018-12-16, 00:20

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Roger that. I'll report back to you in a moment - I needed to boot that thing up for work on another piece of music anyways :) EDIT: Got them recorded - I forgot gzDOOM automatically sends GM resets now, so this was recorded with my MU in GM mode. Pretty impressed with how it sounds, even though the …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2018-12-16, 00:18

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Just finished Overload, that spiritual successor to Descent that came out this year. Really really excellent game, fantastic level design, music, graphics, and a fun story. Currently debating if I want to work through DUSK or something else I have stashed away in my GOG library on my PC... On the …

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Re: Roland SC-55 Music Packs

Posted on 2018-12-16, 00:15

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I'm curious if it sounds more balanced on the Yamaha MU modules? I have an MU1000EX with the officially licensed GS mode and it tends to change the balancing on tracks quite a bit. I wonder if it'd make Heretic sound better...

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Planet X3 by 8-Bit Guy nearing completion! New teaser & music

Posted on 2018-12-16, 00:12

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If you haven't already heard of Planet X3, it's a brand new MS-DOS strategy game, compatible with pretty much every DOS computer ever built with support for VGA and a majority of CGA display modes, and support for PC Speaker, Tandy, and AdLib sound systems using a custom sound engine with music …

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Re: I am a father

Posted on 2018-12-09, 16:38

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Congrats! 😀

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Re: Sound Profile, a series taking a look at old synths and MIDI hardware

Posted on 2018-12-09, 05:26

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Unexpected development: I now own a Roland XP-30! It's a JV-2080 derived synthesizer and... well, it's obviously meant for professional use given its stature, but it still has a General MIDI bank which will get a short mention in the video on it. Looks like I can finally make the JV/XV/XP Sound …

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Re: Heavy Gear 2 CD Audio help needed

Posted on 2018-12-09, 04:16

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I have yet to try it since I've been swamped with music work lately. But man, you're a freaking legend for doing this, thank you so much! As soon as I get some free time I'm going to revisit the game with your fix!

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Re: Al Lowe releasing source code on ebay?

Posted on 2018-12-02, 04:02

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Remember the Shadow Warrior expansion pack that was found on a random CDR in a closet by accident? Let's drink to forget the Xbox development system that was destroyed out of stupidity. There was actually a followup on that Xbox - the drive likely (keyword: LIKELY) didn't contain anything at all …

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Re: Heavy Gear (1997)

Posted on 2018-11-27, 01:37

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Have you tried playing the game with the original 1.0 version, no patches? The game runs fine for me unpatched but it never worked if I patched it...

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