Re: My 320MiB Yamaha FM/Chiptune Compilation SoundFont

Posted on 2018-04-04, 14:31

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by Falcosoft

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I'm using Falcosoft MIDI player which loads soundfonts in software. On earlier versions of Windows you could hook it into the system as the default MIDI device & anything that played MIDI would use it, but I'm unsure how to do that on w10 since they took away the MIDI Mapper. It should still work …

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Re: Benchmarks: HDD vs. CF vs. true SSD on Tualatin rig

Posted on 2018-04-03, 08:48

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This problem also affects 512e Advanced format HDD's. I have not found any official information either. Everyone (HDD manufacturers, Tech sites etc.) pretends 'partition alignment' can solve all problems and that's it. But you can find many forums where users experienced slowdowns with aligned …

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Re: Benchmarks: HDD vs. CF vs. true SSD on Tualatin rig

Posted on 2018-04-03, 07:54

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konc wrote: And the million dollar question is... is the partition aligned? Unfortunately if he is using FAT16/32 'aligned partition' does not mean anything in terms of speed... CF vs SD storage https://msfn.org/board/topic/151798-does-fat3 … n-its-clusters/

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Re: VST Midi Driver Midi Mapper

Posted on 2018-04-02, 19:33

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I don't think it's easy to fix it since in Win8/10 the default MS Midi mapper completely disappeared from the system. So while in Win7 changing the default midi out port only required setting a registry key (HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\MIDIMap), in Win8/10 you need to …

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

Posted on 2018-03-31, 14:02

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Yes, I can also play the files perfectly both in external Munt and MuntVsti. Here's the extracted syx file from the preset midi you attached. You can rename it to a 'folder.syx' so all the files in your Space is Carmen Sandiego folder can use it. And this way you can play with different maximum …

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

Posted on 2018-03-31, 09:07

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Hi, I cannot reproduce the issue and as you have written the problem does not occur on your side either with the emulator. So the most likely explanation is that not midi player itself but the midi out driver crashes. Since most midi drivers are in-process drivers most of the time a driver crash …

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Re: best windows 98 agp card

Posted on 2018-03-29, 19:14

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Yeah can't complain about the bandwidth there! Latency is an important consideration too though. I'm not sure how it compares there. That might be hard to compare to Intel because of the differences in how their CPU caches work. Anandtech actually shows SiS 735 SDR being superior. The chipset that …

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Re: best windows 98 agp card

Posted on 2018-03-29, 17:47

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I've always considered those VIA chipsets from the era to be slower than what Intel produced at the time, the memory controller certainly felt like it was the bottleneck. If we're talking chipsets older than KT266A, yeah those have problems. Their AGP compliance is poor and memory controllers …

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Re: What hardware could run Duke Nukem 3D at 1600x1200 on dos?

Posted on 2018-03-29, 07:50

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^^ that wasn't borne out by my results at all, but I did them on a pure DOS machine using FastVid (and UMBPCI as recommended by the FastVid docs.) Where's the discrepancy coming from, is it just because of Win98? It's not impossible. 1024x768 Athlon XP 1800Mhz + Geforce 6600 (with tweaked BIOS. …

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Re: Autoexec.bat - ho to start game immediately after system load?

Posted on 2018-03-28, 09:39

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You have missed the echo command before the 'hey...' message in your fs.bat, but you should have seen an error instead of nothing. So further testing is required. Put the call to fs.bat to the beginning of autoexec.bat and also put and echo before it. So the first 3 lines of your autoexec.bat should …

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Re: Installing a GeForce 2 GTS 32mb in Win98 SE

Posted on 2018-03-27, 19:49

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Any sources for that? I'm using a GF2 GTS with 71.84 and did not run into any issues so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRhm4aGNI3o While I respect Phils' work, a single person testing such a thing on a single system does not backup the statement. The behaviour found may be caused by the …

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Re: What was RBE=Radeon BIOS Editor ?

Posted on 2018-03-27, 19:24

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by Falcosoft

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Just download ATI Tray Tools and overclock with that. I used that on my HD3850 AGP and never even used to install Catalyst control center, just the driver. He cannot use ATI Tray Tools to overclock to 800MHz when the maximum allowed by the BIOS is currently 750MHz. He has to edit the BIOS of the …

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Re: Installing a GeForce 2 GTS 32mb in Win98 SE

Posted on 2018-03-27, 17:48

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derSammler wrote: Any sources for that? I'm using a GF2 GTS with 71.84 and did not run into any issues so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRhm4aGNI3o

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Re: What hardware could run Duke Nukem 3D at 1600x1200 on dos?

Posted on 2018-03-27, 17:30

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Even a P4 3GHz+ would not be enough if your VGA is not properly configured under DOS. The problem is many PCI soundcards require a TSR to provide DOS support and the TSR's depend on EMM386 (or equivalent) memory manager. When EMM386 is active setting the linear frame buffer of the VGA to Write …

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Re: Autoexec.bat - ho to start game immediately after system load?

Posted on 2018-03-27, 09:57

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No one said pause can fix the problem. Pause/echo can help to determine what/where the problem can be. But you should say more than 'nothing helps'. Disabling echo is not necessary what's more you should enable it. And before/after commands you should insert echo commands to see if a command …

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Re: Autoexec.bat - ho to start game immediately after system load?

Posted on 2018-03-25, 21:57

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Are you booting from c: (or floppy) ? Try: C: CD \MSFS5.S1 FS5.COM X For testing make a separate bat file e.g. MSFS5.BAT and copy the above code into it. Then try to run it after boot. This way you can find out if the problem is with starting the program from autoexec.bat specifically or the …

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Re: Updated List of Current Best Emulators

Posted on 2018-03-24, 20:56

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No, not necessarily. 16 bit problem on 64 bit Windows OS manifests itself in the form of an error message (e.g. when you press the install button of the menu or when you start the installer's executable manually):

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Re: Updated List of Current Best Emulators

Posted on 2018-03-24, 19:00

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This is officially true, although I did successfully run Win98SE in VirtualBox a year or two ago in order to run some old telnet BBS software (modern Windows is unsuitable for this because a lot of BBS door games are 16-bit DOS programs). By not supporting Win9x I mean VirtualBox has no guest …

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Re: Updated List of Current Best Emulators

Posted on 2018-03-24, 18:13

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And, I take it, no support for GPU virtualization passthrough to the actual video hardware? Of course no :). Even VMWare added such feature much later. The emulated S3 Trio VGA reports no hardware acceleration at all to the guest WinXP. And XPMode/VPC emulates fixed hardware, you have no options at …

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Re: Updated List of Current Best Emulators

Posted on 2018-03-24, 16:10

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I wish VB allowed you to install guest additions with Windows 98 to create shared folders. I don’t have a usb and I’m doubtful I could figure out networking sharing so going to try the ISO route first and then hoping if I separate enough I’ll be able to email or upload them. Will the copy/paste …

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