Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2020-03-31, 07:54

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i am not sure if you read my pm. would be nice if dosmid would have a basic gui to select drive, folder and midi file. Hello Karr, in fact I have seen your pm only now. Yes, some basic gui would be nice indeed, but to be honest I doubt I will ever find the time to do it. It's not trivial because …

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Re: zBoy - a GameBoy Classic emulator

Posted on 2020-01-30, 17:53

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keropi wrote on 2020-01-30, 16:48: a new emulator for DOS! Not that new - I released the first public version 10 years ago... :-) keropi wrote on 2020-01-30, 16:48: what are the system requirements? It's a 32-bit (protected mode) application, so it requires at least a 386. But for comfortable …

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zBoy - a GameBoy Classic emulator

Posted on 2020-01-30, 16:21

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Today I published zBoy v0.71, so I thought it's a good occasion to drop a note here on Vogons about it, since I apparently never have. zBoy is a multiplatform emulator of the classic (black & white) GameBoy. It runs on Linux, BSD, Windows, MS-DOS, and probably some other platforms. Version 0.71 …

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Re: Gopherus - your window to the gopherspace

Posted on 2020-01-23, 20:49

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...and yesterday I released a minor 1.2.1 revision that fixes a stability problem on the real-mode DOS build.

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Re: Gopherus - your window to the gopherspace

Posted on 2020-01-19, 13:50

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Today Gopherus v1.2 got published. Gopherus v1.2 [19 Jan 2020]: - [new] bookmarks ("b" key), - [new] UTF-8 support, - [new] IPv6 support (except on the DOS target), - [new] full terminal width used now (no longer limited to 80 columns), - [new] all files from current folder can be downloaded by …

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Re: ethflop - a network-backed floppy emulator for DOS

Posted on 2019-10-09, 13:11

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jmarsh wrote: TFTP is so basic it doesn't allow random reads/writes, only whole files can be transferred. It would also require a full-blown ARP+IP+UDP implementation, significantly increasing the code size, thus memory footprint.

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Re: ethflop - a network-backed floppy emulator for DOS

Posted on 2019-10-05, 14:40

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This makes things so much easier. No GoTek floppy emulator required, and no messing with USB sticks either. Just read the "floppy" straight from the network. Genius! I like your enthusiasm. I wonder if this code could be modified to provide Sound Blaster emulation over a network as well. A Sound …

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ethflop - a network-backed floppy emulator for DOS

Posted on 2019-10-03, 21:20

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Hello, I published today a new DOS tool: a "virtual floppy over Ethernet", targeted to ancient PCs. ethflop is a DOS TSR that emulates a floppy disk drive. The emulated (virtual) floppy disk is, in fact, stored on a Linux server as a floppy image. All the communication between ethflop (the TSR) and …

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Re: VM appliance for EtherDFS server

Posted on 2019-08-31, 06:14

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What's the advantage of this over FreeNAS? Smaller footprint? FreeNAS works well for my needs and still supports SMB1 so until that's dropped I should be good. Is your SMB solution able to run on a no-NIC 8086 with 256K of total memory? EtherDFS is. EtherDFS ( http://etherdfs.sourceforge.net ) has …

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Re: VM appliance for EtherDFS server

Posted on 2019-08-30, 20:05

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Largely for my own amuesment, I've created a VM virtual 'appliance' that runs the server for EtherDFS with 'just enough OS' - hopefully this may make it easier for those who are not Linux/Unix people to try out EtherDFS. IMHO once it's working it's an awesome solution and I'm surprised there is …

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Dr. Mind

Posted on 2019-08-30, 09:58

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Ever wanted to play some Mastermind, but had no one to play with? Dr. Mind comes to the rescue! Dr. Mind is a PC adaptation of the Mastermind(TM) board game. The computer generates a secret color code, then the player has to figure out the exact pattern through deduction. Requirements: PC-compatible …

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Re: Gopherus - your window to the gopherspace

Posted on 2019-02-27, 07:54

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Yes it does, although it's vestigial at this point. When I counted few years ago, there was about 100 surviving gopher servers left in the world. Recently I got curious again, so I created the Observable Gopherspace Universe Project (OGUP) at [url]gopher://gopher.viste.fr/1/ogup[/url] The OGUP …

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Gopherus - your window to the gopherspace

Posted on 2019-02-26, 20:45

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Gopherus is a free, multi-platform, console-mode gopher client available for DOS, Linux (POSIX) and Windows. It provides a classic text interface to the gopherspace. The DOS version is available in two flavours: a 16-bit, real-mode version for 8086+ and a 32-bit, protected mode version for 386+. The …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2018-12-11, 20:09

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CrossBow777 wrote: 0.9.5 seems to be working just fine! Awesome :) Thanks again for the quick fix on this! My pleasure.

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2018-12-10, 14:44

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Is there any difference in loading UltraMID and using DOSMID /GUS to loading MegaEM and using DOSMID /MPU regarding the output? Additional comment on this one: while I have no clue whether the output is different or not, there is a major difference in how these two drivers work. ULTRAMID is a 100% …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

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Is there any difference in loading UltraMID and using DOSMID /GUS to loading MegaEM and using DOSMID /MPU regarding the output? What does DOSMID do in the case the 1 MB RAM is not sufficient, e.g. if I run it with UltraMID -16 and load a Midi file that uses a lot of different instruments? These are …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2018-12-10, 12:52

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For the case of /GUS and UltraMID is not loaded, can you attempt to do a 'lh ultramid' automatically? (and unload on exit if it was loaded successfully 'on demand' ?) Well, technically I could, but that's not something I am willing to do :) I think it is not the kind of actions that a program …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2018-12-10, 10:34

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...and now I released v0.9.5. DOSMid v0.9.5 [10 Dec 2018] - Fixed file-reading module (buff corruption on first cache boundary read). Thanks to CrossBow777 for reporting this bug!

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2018-12-10, 09:22

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Correct it seems to work fine in 0.9.3 so this is a new issue introduced in the latest version. As an example of the files I'm using. On the first page of this thread is an attachment to the Quest Studios mids from some of the Sierra adventure games. Several of those mids include specific MT-32 …

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Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS

Posted on 2018-12-09, 17:11

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Was testing out the latest release this morning and unless I"m doing something wrong, it is giving me errors when trying to load up the Sysex files from the quest studios pack. I can get it to play the other .mids from that pack for the MT-32 that use standard instrument mt-32 mapping, but I'm not …

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