Re: [Identify] old DOS date utility

Posted on 2016-03-24, 23:38

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@konc - its packed by my packer because it came from my collection 😀 @ripsaw8080 - The patch you removed is post compile, but was not added by me. not sure what its point was, the two decrements dont make much sense at all. @leileilol - an original archive of it, nice!

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Re: [Identify] old DOS date utility

Posted on 2016-03-24, 19:01

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as author of said packer. its called vacuum, its written in pmode asm as an exercise using dos32 extender (adam seychell version), yes it was released. i cant check at work but I think this is it; its on stuba.sk ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/vacuum.zip I never wrote an unpacker since its .com, …

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Re: [Identify] old DOS date utility

Posted on 2016-03-24, 12:58

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no worries ;) Once I saw your drawing I knew exactly what it was, its pretty distinct. yes I too used it as a 'cls' type tool. Its copyright is "UK, 1990, Philema Perspectives", and I've only ever known it as "n.com", it came from a business type UK magazine coverdisk. beyond that, nothing else I …

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Re: [Identify] old DOS date utility

Posted on 2016-03-23, 21:53

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this is? I've had + use this for years and years 😀 Its like 1kb; so I threw it on my site http://mega-tokyo.com/n.com

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Re: [Identify] old DOS date utility

Posted on 2016-03-23, 18:07

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i have something similiar, ill post a screenshot tonight when i get home from work! i never found anyone else useing it. mine came from a coverdisk from the uk or something.

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Re: ScummVM Surprising MIDI Emulation

Posted on 2016-03-23, 13:34

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it should be a switch, but as others pointed out, its the Tandy sound. much better than the sierra dos driver 😀 me = Sarien author + one time scummvm guy many years ago... Its nice to see people still enjoying AGI games!

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Re: how did old games did sounds?

Posted on 2016-03-23, 13:18

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I remember writing my own awe32 player. I had used int he past something like mikmod since you can play wav files with it. i think fmod had a dos version, or i remember i got one from firelight (nice to live in same town!)... there are heaps of music/wav/mod engine code around. you should browse …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-20, 23:59

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what good is an MT32 without proper cables? (no software, Its just the two cables that connect to the sb joystick port with the midi in/out connectors)

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The 'Blue Ridge' roms

Posted on 2016-03-19, 23:15

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So, I've read the oldcrows article on the so called 'blue ridge' roms, looked at the schematics for the battery backed ram etc. But does anyone know what they changed in the rom? The blueridge rom says 'thanks to mark tsuruta' who was roland usa ceo at one point.. rather than the 1.07 text.. Some of …

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Re: Teach me some electronics repair skills.

Posted on 2016-03-18, 16:59

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by BloodyCactus

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

chisel + hoof tip!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-17, 23:43

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MT32, old-old style with PGA. Serial number in the 82 range.... I _think_ it has roms 1.05 if the sickers are correct and a reverb of 2.00, Need to wait for the PSU to arrive so I can power it up. Strange that two of the roms are socketd and the rest are soldered down to the pcb. I think the reverb …

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Re: Future of VMware Workstation

Posted on 2016-03-17, 16:23

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by BloodyCactus

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Ive not run vmware workstation in years, been long since using virtualbox. I've run a subset of games on w98, 2k, xp just fine inside virtual box. it depends what api's the games hit since you dont have a full blown nvidia driver/ati driver you just have the virtual one.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-03-16, 16:23

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I updated my copy of openwatcom v2 from git and did a full build on linux (generated all host/targets), to create a new binary release for dos. zipped its like 21mb, just the dos host/target. I only just noticed OWv2 cant create .COM anymore, but 11c can. not a huge deal really.

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Re: Roland MT-32, CM-32L + General MIDI for $50 Building a MIDI box

Posted on 2016-03-14, 17:26

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if you dont need an full stack OS underneath, some microcontrollers have plenty of IO and sram+rom, or yes, fpga would give you the fast pin control. if you need lots of io at speed, yeou cant bet an fpga.

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Re: Teach me some electronics repair skills.

Posted on 2016-03-14, 16:26

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by BloodyCactus

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since you want to do pcb repair, a nice triple combo of solder station, hot air gun and desolder gun is good.. I have hakko 888 (analogue dial, but I think all current ones are digital), hakko 808 for desoldering, makes through hole desolder super quick and easy, and cheap noname hot air gun from …

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Re: Roland MT-32, CM-32L + General MIDI for $50 Building a MIDI box

Posted on 2016-03-14, 16:15

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It comes from benchmarking. The PI might be 1.2ghz or 900mhz but thats not the speed it can hit its external bus (gpio) at. Now I think about it that was the original pi, PI2 in C you could max out about 20mhz? been a while since i looked at the pi under my scope. This is talking raw C interface, if …

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Re: Roland MT-32, CM-32L + General MIDI for $50 Building a MIDI box

Posted on 2016-03-14, 15:13

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Actually no; I was thinking on removing the glue logic and feeding the ISA signals (through level translators) directly to the pi; do the decoding in software. As for the switches and LCD, those could be moved to I2C to save on pins. how are you going to feed the required number isa pins to the …

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Re: Help Identifying Commodore keyboard.

Posted on 2016-03-10, 16:21

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by BloodyCactus

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amiga 4000 had 6 pin mini din. amiga 3000 had 5 pin din. also the cd32 had 6 pin mini din but different pinout, but what you have is not a cd32 keyboard :) just a plain old 4k miggy keyboard Now that you mention that, this keyboard used to work with an Amiga CD32 system so now I'm totally confused …

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Re: Help Identifying Commodore keyboard.

Posted on 2016-03-10, 02:27

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by BloodyCactus

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amiga 4000 had 6 pin mini din. amiga 3000 had 5 pin din. also the cd32 had 6 pin mini din but different pinout, but what you have is not a cd32 keyboard 😀 just a plain old 4k miggy keyboard

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2016-03-09, 03:16

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be careful with openwatcom, the patch from real watcom 11.0b to 11.0c (openwatcom) removed lots of stuff. 10.6 or 11.0a/b are ok but id avoid 11.0c/openwatcom. ksh was common. sounds like they used the mks toolkit in the build system. mks toolkit provided dos with bash/ksh/tcs/cshell etc. and lots …

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