Re: EMM386.EXE D=64 FRAME=E000 /I=B000-B7FF RAM explanation, warning-fix Option ROM or RAM detected within page frame

Posted on 2018-07-25, 08:04

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I seem to recall that CD-Man 2.0 and Prehistorik 1 did not work for me using I=B000-B7FF, but they do work using the I=B400-B7FF flag. I guess it just has to do with whatever random region they happened to use. Hi, using 'I=B400-B7FF' actually can work since monochrome memory region addressing is …

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Re: EMM386.EXE D=64 FRAME=E000 /I=B000-B7FF RAM explanation, warning-fix Option ROM or RAM detected within page frame

Posted on 2018-07-25, 06:51

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Hi, It seems there's some misunderstanding here: Nvidia Roms eating whole A000-B7FF - 128KB 1. A000-B7FF is only 96K not 128K so this range is rather A000-BFFF. 2. A000-AFFF is always used by VGA as Video RAM (not ROM!) for Graphic modes. It's vendor independent (old VGA cards like S3 Trio's also …

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Re: Multichannel DOS mixer for DOS sound builds v0.48, and Audigy support SOON!

Posted on 2018-07-23, 11:52

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Hi, It seems I'm the first downloader of the new 0.48 version 😀 I have tried and everything (I tried only Mic input/Line-in/CD digital) works perfectly. Thank you.

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Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi

Posted on 2018-07-19, 08:42

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HI. Thank you for your explanation. I've done exactly as described but as you was writing this does not work. I'm not understanding one thing: If each track created used a by an instrument... and in the mod i've 4 instrument for example why if i remove redundant program changes, even with the …

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Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi

Posted on 2018-07-18, 09:09

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Hi, Sorry, I have not noticed that you had not used ideal command line parameters. To get the best result for your goals you should use ..\MidiPlayer5\mod2midi.exe ...\mod\agony\agonyintro.mod ...\mod\agony\ 0 1 1 That is split by (mod)track AND by instrument. This way you should not get more …

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Re: X58 PC+ Yamaha744 sound card-pure Dos7.1- compatibility list and research, work in progress- gurus needed

Posted on 2018-07-18, 07:52

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In your case you can try a hack (the way I accidentally discovered WC mode many years ago): 1st boot into Win95 or 98 with installed driver for your GPU. It enables WC. Then reboot Windows to DOS mode... If you have >4GB RAM try to play with memory remap option in BIOS if you have any. Yes, I have …

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Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi

Posted on 2018-07-18, 07:04

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Look at those program changes closer :) . With the new flags set you are granted to have the same instrument per track. Since I have only changed the organization not the core conversion yes, you have many redundant program change messages per track. But contrary to default conversion where you can …

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Re: X58 PC+ Yamaha744 sound card-pure Dos7.1- compatibility list and research, work in progress- gurus needed

Posted on 2018-07-17, 16:40

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In my use case I don't need any v86/EMS for games like Duke, Blood... they have it's own extender. Yes, I argued about this above. I also use UMBPCI instead of EMM386 variants and everything works. But unfortunately on newer PCI only systems most PCI soundcards require EMM386/JEMM to provide SB …

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Re: X58 PC+ Yamaha744 sound card-pure Dos7.1- compatibility list and research, work in progress- gurus needed

Posted on 2018-07-17, 16:00

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BTW just a small note, my utility MTRRLFBE can run also under EMM386/JEMM or any v86 mode, I solved problem with ring 0 instructions via callgate many years ago... With JEMM both Fastvid/MTRRLFBE work in the sense no privileged instruction error occurs. But unfortunately MTRRLFBE neither with …

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Re: Which PCI Sound Card for DOS (SB, FM and General MIDI)?

Posted on 2018-07-17, 09:03

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Bigger problem is that the majority of PCI cards cannot fulfill all your requirements: 1. 'In pure DOS (Digital + FM) ... (not worse than Creative CQM).' - Aureal Vortex cards (and also SB Live!/Audigy/Ensoniq AudioPCI) are out of contest... They have only emulated FM that is much worse than CQM: …

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Re: X58 PC+ Yamaha744 sound card-pure Dos7.1- compatibility list and research, work in progress- gurus needed

Posted on 2018-07-15, 12:04

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Overall I bet there are more games that actually need / can use EMS compared to games that are truly incompatible with protected mode. Heck, even MSCDEX can use EMS to free more conventional memory. I would not bet against you and it's because of the 'can use' phrase. But I do think it's also not …

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Re: X58 PC+ Yamaha744 sound card-pure Dos7.1- compatibility list and research, work in progress- gurus needed

Posted on 2018-07-14, 22:55

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Thanks i will rename it to real name, right? I was used by author of original config which i started to edit, i didnt questioned it, i just lived with it until now. It's 'Real Mode' instead. But to tell you the truth no one name it like this. It's actually your 'XMS only' configuration. It's …

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Re: X58 PC+ Yamaha744 sound card-pure Dos7.1- compatibility list and research, work in progress- gurus needed

Posted on 2018-07-14, 21:58

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I think the most succinct way to put it is that very few (any?) games are incompatible with EMM386/protected mode per se . Only when you venture into the realm of the low-level optimization tools that you mentioned does EMM386 become a problem, and you only need them for a handful of very specific …

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Re: X58 PC+ Yamaha744 sound card-pure Dos7.1- compatibility list and research, work in progress- gurus needed

Posted on 2018-07-14, 19:57

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I also discovered that change setupds for Yamaha is working only in protected mod, probably because there is not load driver loaded, in ems and xms mode freeze on save settings and settings are not saved.. test theAureal Votex 2 - if it has better or worse pure Dos compability than Yamahas Sound …

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Re: EMM386.EXE 16384 D=64 FRAME=E000 /I=B000-B7FF RAM explanation, fix warning- Option ROM or RAM detected within page fram

Posted on 2018-07-14, 18:42

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ruthan wrote: gdjacobs wrote: Could you please also check if JEMM386 is compatible with DSDMA? I never used it, when you will give me download link and config line, i will test it. You have already got it earlier ... Dos 7.1 Himem/EMS- boot freeze on HP z400 X58 6c/12t - solved+philosophic …

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Re: To go native resolution or not to go native resolution?

Posted on 2018-07-06, 14:57

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My argument is not about what is available and common today, though the difference between 1080p and 4K is a great way to show where we're going. I don not see "the way we are going" the same way :). There's an obvious pixel count increase. No doubt it will continue. But I do not see the …

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Re: To go native resolution or not to go native resolution?

Posted on 2018-07-05, 17:50

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No idea about the exact scaling algorithm, it was the default one. I suspect bicubic/bilinear scaling in case of the 4K display because of the experienced blurriness. I use mainly AIDA64's Monitor diagnostics. I recommend this or similar utilities since they can reveal more problems than games ( …

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Re: To go native resolution or not to go native resolution?

Posted on 2018-07-05, 17:12

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My main argument is/was the following: no matter the display size and resolution the same problem as displaying 1080p standard resolution/materials on 1440p screens can manifest itself even on 4K/8K screens when these screens have to display materials/standard resolutions that have to be scaled by …

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Re: To go native resolution or not to go native resolution?

Posted on 2018-07-05, 16:43

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No, since I have not had the opportunity to try/test 8K displays so far :). But my experience with 4K and HD displays is the following: similarly as 1080p material does not look any better on a 4K display than on native 1080p displays (what's more quite the contrary, so I strongly think this is just …

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Re: To go native resolution or not to go native resolution?

Posted on 2018-07-05, 16:14

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Yes, which is somewhere in-between as I said before: It's less crisp/more blurry than pixel resize and less accurate proportionally than bicubic/bilinear: Filename resample.png File size 212.77 KiB Views 561 views

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