Re: What's the best FM music you've heard?
Posted on 2016-04-07, 15:04
I love most things done by laxity and jch of vibrants! jch also did some fantastic SID music too..
Re: Open-Source Retro x86 PC: Feasiblity report?
Posted on 2016-04-07, 01:51
what your really saying is, you want dosbox in an fpga?
Re: Roland SC-88 repair
Posted on 2016-04-07, 01:41
so uh... it was working but you decided to shotgun all the caps, rip a cap off with pliers pulling up a pad and or tracks.. then when you put it back together its not working correctly. sometimes I think people should have a license to use a soldering iron. the only think you can do is check your …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-04-05, 22:18
Not strictly retro as it involves modern components but I spent a few hours today piecing together some VHDL code to recreate in a cheap FPGA board a retro machine. So far I have a Z80 CPU, 4kB of RAM and a serial port. The goal is to make a CP/M machine :) But for that I have to add some external …
Re: Quadbooting Win 3.1/98, NT and OS/2
Posted on 2016-04-05, 12:56
get a good boot manager like System Command, it will take a lot of the pains away of opsys's fighting for boot control + bootable flags and whatnot..
Re: Rubbing alcohol seems to remove the conformal coating off PCB boards
Posted on 2016-04-04, 12:44
use simple green or one of its bazillion 'clones'.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-04-04, 02:12
Skyscraper wrote: the ED SC-D70 but the reason I have been on the lookout for this one is that its the only one with digital out and selectable 44/48kHz sampling rate.. how well does it do the 55/88 maps being they were 32khz and the D70 is 44/48khz... ?
Re: Smallest AT case possible
Posted on 2016-04-02, 23:01
Get an industrial case and use an SBC card instead of traditional 'motherboard' maybe.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-03-31, 23:59
So I picked up a Roland SC88VL in white... pretty nice. Nice catch. :-P Is it just me, or does that thing look brand spanking new? no some scratches on the top but the front + back is pristine (nobody hunted blindly to plug cables in). my guess, it got setup and put on a shelf and left in …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-03-31, 23:44
So I picked up a Roland SC88VL in white... pretty nice. Yes, it is! I swear, one day I'm gonna take the plunge and spend 100e + shipping one an external MIDI module - be it an MT32, SC55, SC88 or a Yamaha - I've been drooling over one for way too long. yeah I really wanted a sc88pro but the only …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-03-31, 22:44
So I picked up a Roland SC88VL in white... pretty nice. Interestingly, I knew you can swap sc55/sc88 maps but I did not know you can press a button when turning the power and it will boot into CM64 mode.. I wonder if that will give me the extra sound effects like a real CM32/CM64... if I get the …
Re: Recreating floppy images from directory/zips
Posted on 2016-03-31, 12:41
the one missing piece of the puzzle I never figured out was how the embedded interpreter knew whats sector/track/head each file was at. if one had that, we could extract everything and have it working under dos without being a booter.
Re: Recreating floppy images from directory/zips
Posted on 2016-03-30, 14:53
yeah sure, it would be nice to know. I have not paid much attention since we got it into scummvm. I know there were improvements to sci1 stuff. I did start working on enabling the agi v1 stuff but there is magic going in in finding the files at the correct sectors on disk that I never figured out …
Re: Recreating floppy images from directory/zips
Posted on 2016-03-30, 13:56
If you still have any interest in things AGI/SCI there are some interesting developments that have been occurring over the past year or so. cool. I've not touched agi or sci since I merged sarien into scummvm and did some odd scummvm commits years ago. These days I'm busy building my own pinball …
Re: Recreating floppy images from directory/zips
Posted on 2016-03-30, 12:31
So you are Dark Fiber? I did notice the mega-tokyo.com link in your sig. If you find your updated version let me know and I can update the Wiki, even if SCI Studio and the new SCI Companion can strip the duplicates, too. Also the change in hash does not matter to DOSBox, of course. At least with …
Re: running out of memory in emu8086
Posted on 2016-03-29, 23:32
segments. its the whole point of using them.
Re: Recreating floppy images from directory/zips
Posted on 2016-03-29, 19:35
you can also pack the resource files together, removing duplicates and get it small enough it might fit with a single resource where two might spill over a disk size. Depends on the game. Something like the Sierra AGI games had duplicate VOL files, but the SCI games that could be played from the …
Re: Which SDL features does DosBox actually use?
Posted on 2016-03-29, 19:26
yeah, same as you seem confused about things you can configure SDL for ;) (png for example has nothing to do with SDL ;)) it has nothing to do with sdl and everything to do with sdl_image tho. presuming that you want png support in sdl_image... as I said, if you dont have png libs, and you build …
Re: Recreating floppy images from directory/zips
Posted on 2016-03-29, 17:01
I would not recommend that anyone play a Sierra game that uses RESOURCE.0XX files unless you can fit them on one disk (pretty much just the Hoyle card games). If you want to torture yourself with the 16-color SCI0 games like King's Quest IV and Space Quest III, put all files on the first disk …
Re: Which SDL features does DosBox actually use?
Posted on 2016-03-29, 16:59
BloddyCactus this is not what yesterplay was asking. You listed other libraries that are dependant on SDL. The OP specifically spoke about SDL with ALSA, OSS etc, those are backend libraries SDL compiles against. That SDL gets built against many back end libraries, does not mean they get used. OP …
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