Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2020-08-14, 12:28

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And yeah, I love my YMF724F-V as well, but I have to say, digital audio in SBPro mode sounds just a tad nicer on the ESS 1868F ... Maybe it's the 48 KHz vs. 44.1 KHz resampling thing, not sure. It has more to do with non functional SB Pro like low-pass filter ( known problem with these cards). But …

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Re: Can anyone help me fix my MIDI Softsynth tone height and chorus?

Posted on 2020-08-12, 14:28

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Does the channel aftertouch command(D*) set the aftertouch value for all running notes on a channel? Yes. Or is it something that's additive with the normal polyphonic aftertouch(A*)? It depends. Since they are completely different messages and despite the fact that even earliest Midi specification …

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Re: Can anyone help me fix my MIDI Softsynth tone height and chorus?

Posted on 2020-08-11, 14:12

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... Or is it supposed to be only applied to running notes, with future notes being automatically given a pitch wheel bending of being unaffected? No, pitch bend works like other channel-wide messages. That is it affects current and also future notes. Some software (e.g. abc2midi) even use pitch …

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Re: Munt Properties

Posted on 2020-08-06, 04:04

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Hi Guys I use Munt-32 and DOSBox to capture Audio On Properties I set on: DAC EMULATION High Quality RENDER TYPE Float 32 bit I've a doubt on MAX PARTIALS I've on 32 I notice if you change the number you have different TUNES It depends on what you want to achieve: better overall quality or more …

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Re: DosBox working at full speed (real speed of the core).

Posted on 2020-08-04, 08:07

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First you have to understand the difference between emulator software like DosBox and virtualization software like VMware, VirtualBox etc. Virtualization software does not emulate the CPU but runs your x86/x64 software natively on your x86/x64 cores. But you cannot use virtualization software to run …

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

Posted on 2020-07-30, 14:51

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Hi Zoltán, I don't really understand how DOSBox connected to the FSMP... What I have to write in dosbox.conf 'mididevice' and 'midiconfig' fields to use FSMP as MidiOut device? Please, make it understand to me. Thank you! Hi, James-F wrote a post about this: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f= …

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

Posted on 2020-07-27, 18:50

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I have attached Shadow Warrior level 1 midi file. Notice FM tracks and regular tracks on same channel. OK, I would not have noticed any problem by simple listening to this Midi :) . But by looking at the track names it is likely that some of them are really intended to be played with FM synths in …

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

Posted on 2020-07-27, 16:22

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Hello Zoltan, I have a question regarding MIDI tracks. Is it possible to delete/disable particular MIDI tracks? Some MIDI files (e.g. Build games) contain tracks that use different instruments on the same channel at the same time. One track is for GM the second for FM synths or GUS etc. The problem …

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Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player

Posted on 2020-07-26, 16:58

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Hi guys, I'm going to be playing some SC-55 games (like World of Xeen) and am going to follow this process to get the correct sounds. This post is a few years old, is this still the preferred method to achieving this? Or is it outdated? It's not outdated as far as capital tone fallback settings are …

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win98 Retro Gaming

Posted on 2020-07-11, 11:52

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... And K10 architecture has minimum able mul x0.5, i.e. it will be CPU 100 MHz at FSB 200MHz (HyperTransport 800MHz). I have tried this and it really works! If you are programming FID=0 DID=4 to MSR it functions as a 0.5x multiplier i.e. 100MHz. Tested with AIDA16 K10 at 100MHz is not a very fast …

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Re: AudioPCI MIDI synth quality, VXD vs WDM

Posted on 2020-07-08, 21:12

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I never see this mentioned about the AudioPCI so I thought I would make a thread about it. I've noticed that using an ES1371 with the VXD drivers results in very crisp and clear MIDI, whereas the WDM driver results in a more compressed/filtered sound as if it's downsampled to 22050hz or something. …

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Re: Is there any way to run specific programs at different resolutions/color depths in Windows 98?

Posted on 2020-07-08, 20:40

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Title. I found nircmd at one point, which lets me change res via a batch file, the problem is I'd do something like nircmd setdisplay 800x600x16 mageslay.exe nircmd setdisplay 800x600x32 and it would WORK but it did all three of those things in rapid succession, so it skipped the whining but went …

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Re: How to disable MMX in Quake 3?

Posted on 2020-07-04, 12:53

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Maybe adding more detailed information about your problems might help others to help? That would require a different subject thread. When Quake 3 starts, something Quake's blue screen dialogue box says that it has detected an MMX CPU, so I figured some feature in Quake likely uses MMX to some …

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Re: How to disable MMX in Quake 3?

Posted on 2020-07-03, 09:50

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Allegedly there's MMX in 1.27g (an alternative 'nommx' binary exists) so maybe they've had issues. The released source references MMX only on two memory copy functions, MMX possibly only used for the linux builds. I can confirm this. v1.27g really contains MMX instructions, but only move …

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Re: How to disable MMX in Quake 3?

Posted on 2020-07-03, 08:47

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I am using Quake 3 Arena v1.32, which isn't the demo version. Anyway to disable MMX support entirely in this version of Quake 3? I have just checked v1.32 (exe size: 905 216 bytes) and it does not conatain any MMX code either... So you simply do not have to disable MMX support since no such …

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Re: How to disable MMX in Quake 3?

Posted on 2020-07-03, 06:28

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Does Quake 3 use MMX for CPUs that it detects are MMX-capable? If so, is there anyway I can tell Quake 3 not to use MMX? I'm doing some troubleshooting that I predict may be linked to MMX in some form or another. Thanks. I'm not sure about all Quake3 versions but the original 'Quake 3 Arena Demo' ( …

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Re: Play midi files with munt?

Posted on 2020-06-28, 05:09

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I'm not sure you can do this with Munt's player but you can with my Midi player (FSMP) More info about how it works: Re: Ways to make your MT-32 MIDIs sound right

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Re: OPL3 vs. CQM vs. SBLive emulated FM synth

Posted on 2020-06-25, 13:02

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2020-06-25, 12:49: Live! FM emulation is horrible, but CQM is just different, not necessarily bad. Personally I do not like the weak, hissy, metallic, bass-less sound of CQM. In some situations (e.g. Duke Nukem 3D) I feel even SB Live!'s emulation does a better job ( at …

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Re: How much slower and resource intensive is Windows 98SE vs Windows 95C?

Posted on 2020-06-23, 11:39

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Win98SE has so many improvements, a better memory managment most notabely. And MMX (and SSE ? ) kernals. Just a small clarification: Win95 fully supports both MMX and 3DNow! extensions since MMX registers (also used by 3DNow!) are mapped to FPU stack so any operating systems that can handle (save/ …

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Re: Gabriel Knight 1 - General Midi/MT-32 Not Working.

Posted on 2020-06-22, 15:52

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Ooooook, I changed 1869 for Labway made YMF719 and Gabriel is General MIDI positive now. I don't get it. Every other game works with ESS+S2 great... The problem is GK1 resets the mixer and ESS cards have the unfortunate default that AuxB (the port that WaveBlaster cards connect to) volume after a …

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