Re: Vortex2 OPL3 Project
Posted on 2015-06-30, 05:10
Not that I know of, it's just realllllllly buggy. It's on the TODO: list of things that need updated for the Vortex2 cards.
Re: Vortex2 OPL3 Project
Posted on 2015-06-29, 22:37
Aureal archeology ;) I am reversing the entire program for future posterity reasons. I setup a github for this Project at [github project deleted] For now I'm just doing some quick and dirty translations to organize everything the routines do, I'll work on cleaning the code up as it goes along. [ …
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2015-06-29, 08:17
I know I've played that game, and it's buggin my head that I can't recall what it is. Like MechWarrior 3 or something along those lines
Re: Vortex2 OPL3 Project
Posted on 2015-06-29, 05:33
I came across a few collaboration tools, but they seem a pain to setup. PM sent with the merged project, it should have everything this time along with what you've done so far. I'll resume translating the file into C manually. My digression into a general 16-bit IDA ASM to C util won't be seeing the …
Re: Possible virus?
Posted on 2015-06-28, 10:01
This happens all the time on my Win98 box I use for playing around with Aureal. The only drivers which work for the Nforce3 controller on my machine are the ones WinME loads. However when ME crashes then it does the same thing your screenshots show. I read somewhere that it's a triggered safe/ …
Re: Vortex2 OPL3 Project
Posted on 2015-06-28, 04:25
It appears that IDA didn't export out any of the local labels or local variable names properly, so I've updated the file manually and reattached it. It should be 1:1 progress with where I left off, but I didn't check it 100% to be sure. Just be aware that if you use the updated version you won't …
Re: Programming DOS games
Posted on 2015-06-24, 04:35
No no no, you're doing it all wrong here :) If you want to walk in the shoes of those before you, you'll need to learn what they knew. However a far easier route exists. Start programming your game for windows and leverage the modern tools available for it. Then when your game is complete and you …
Re: Vortex2 OPL3 Project
Posted on 2015-06-22, 20:24
The OPL3 emulation is functional but *quite* bad. Same with my TB:Santa Cruz, it's almost like they are using the same EMU base code... (Speaking of which) I've digressed in the project to look at writing a general 16-bit ASM to pseudo C helper tool, as manually porting all this is a bit tedious for …
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2015-06-19, 00:12
Ding Ding Ding! Turnabout it is, you got it! We spent a few days typing in all that code and had bugs everywhere so I never got past level 8. It was this game or Hacker I spent most my time on as a kid 😀 (typing them in that is, never got whirlybird working...)
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2015-06-18, 22:06
Not Indiana Jones related either. It's one of the type in games from Compute Gazette 1985 issue. The premise is you must move along the green lines closing them in like doors around whirligigs which chase you.
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2015-06-18, 21:05
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2015-06-18, 20:56
Might be easy to those who love C64 and Compute! Gazette type in games 😉 Filename C64Game.png File size 3.76 KiB Views 1166 views
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2015-06-18, 09:00
Re: EAX and old laptop
Posted on 2015-06-12, 19:45
Has anyone opened one to see if it actually has the EMU10k2(.5) cpu in it? I was under the impression that creative just placed a codec in there and did the rest via software.
Re: Recommend some sound cards that are NOT the following:
Posted on 2015-06-09, 08:07
I'm enjoying my Turtle Beach Santa Cruz. Probably the best contender to the Aureal Vortex2 cards.
Re: C compiler w/dos .com as target
Posted on 2015-06-09, 08:04
I believe it was written with TurboC++ 4, but I am not 100% sure. I see a lot of routines which don't appear hand written. I think it would be nice to have a version written in C so non-asm coders can understand this bit of soundcard history. No reason we couldn't use ASM where it's needed most. It …
Re: C compiler w/dos .com as target
Posted on 2015-06-08, 10:30
Looking at it now, seems nice. I also found that my TurboC++ 6 will do com as well, but no dos libs included. I'm liking open watcom so far.
Re: Vortex2 OPL3 Project
Posted on 2015-06-08, 10:21
Thanks for the interest. I've exported it out to IDA5 free so it can be brought into any IDA version.
Re: C compiler w/dos .com as target
Posted on 2015-06-08, 00:53
Thanks for the reply, I'll check it out.
C compiler w/dos .com as target
Posted on 2015-06-08, 00:09
Hello everyone. As a few of you already know, I've started reversing the Aureal AU30DOS.com TSR with great success so far. What I'm after now is a C compiler which can target dos .com files, and ideally has some dos lib support files, IO access, port read/writes and whatnot. I can just rewrite the …
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