Re: HardMPU, anyone?
Posted on 2017-01-23, 14:38
I'm not sure if you answered this question before, but do you consider this project open-source, or more proprietary than that (i.e. you'd like to tightly control the firmware, etc.)?
Re: Crazy Idea - MT32 WaveBlaster Card
Posted on 2017-01-23, 14:36
hard1k wrote: MuntBlaster?.. Ha! That's not bad actually...
Re: How to load DOS device drivers from the command line?
Posted on 2017-01-23, 14:32
FreeDOS has a utility called 'devload' which is supported for this exact use on that system. I haven't tried (yet) but it might work on MS-DOS 6+ as well...
Re: Crazy Idea - MT32 WaveBlaster Card
Posted on 2017-01-23, 03:34
If it's ok with you, I can merge with the existing "Munt on Pi" thread and move it to Sound? Yeah, I followed that thread pretty closely; definitely good work. My attempts here are to essentially productize that idea into a unique form factor. I don't disagree with merging the two... for sure both …
Re: Connecting Roland SC-55 to Audio Interface
Posted on 2017-01-23, 03:16
If its anything like the XG stuff I've never really liked Yamaha overall (some nice instruments but meh..) Yeah, personal taste I guess. I personally like the Yamaha... If I had one hooked up and ran the DOOM setup program, I could select "General MIDI", and it would play over the SC-55 ? Yup, you …
Re: Crazy Idea - MT32 WaveBlaster Card
Posted on 2017-01-23, 03:07
I have an Orange Pi PC and FluidSynth would not work well for me. I used Armbian as OS and the MIDI playback was kind of laggy and "off". Now you make me sad :dead: but as mentioned before, I have pretty good experience with embedded Linux, and buildroot was suggested as well that looks promising …
Re: PC Speaker input cable for Sound cards
Posted on 2017-01-23, 00:41
It looks like this should do the job Yup... those will do the job just fine. Too bad you have to buy 40 of them (DX or Aliexpress are the same way). As a heads up, one problem I had that took me a (embarrasingly) long time to figure out was that if it doesn't seem to be working, you might have the …
Re: Connecting Roland SC-55 to Audio Interface
Posted on 2017-01-22, 20:34
Do you just plug these things in with a gameport - > MIDI cable? do you need a special controller card, or can you just do it off a soundblaster gameport? Does the particular game have to have setup options for MPU-401 ? In order; yes, no, yes, and yes. Just a regular Gameport-to-MIDI cable (fairly …
Re: Connecting Roland SC-55 to Audio Interface
Posted on 2017-01-22, 15:43
Can I use a RCA to TS cables to connect the SC55 to the line in on the UR22 or even on my digital piano which then runs through to the UR22? Yeah, absolutely! The line out level of the SC-55 is totally appropriate to use with TS or TRS inputs... not so much with XLR but that's not what you're …
Re: Crazy Idea - MT32 WaveBlaster Card
Posted on 2017-01-22, 15:22
I recommend using a board with at least a Cortex A7 based CPU. NEON gives a significant boost with Munt and is shown to make real time MT-32 emulation possible. Well, I have intentionally chosen the Orange Pi Zero (Allwinner H2+) which is Cortex A7. :blush: I know it will work with this board. The …
Re: HardMPU, anyone?
Posted on 2017-01-22, 03:48
ab0tj, the USER header... looks like it's connected to the second UART of the Atmega1284, where the actual external MIDI port is connected to the first UART (as expected). Are the signals on the second UART of the MC duplicated to/from the host (i.e. are the signals sent and received on the second …
Re: Crazy Idea - MT32 WaveBlaster Card
Posted on 2017-01-22, 03:44
I think I've convinced myself that powering the unit completely from the WaveTable header or from the DB15 gameport connector is going to be impractical.. unless the Raspberry Pi Zero works out, but I'm not holding my breath. So there's going to be an external power connector -- either floppy power …
Re: DOS 6.22/ Win 98SE Dual Boot
Posted on 2017-01-21, 04:50
I wrote an blog post about this very topic not too long ago: http://retropcbuilder.blogspot.ca/2016/11/dual-booting-dos-and-windows-95-follow.html My method uses GRUB4DOS... others have other (equally valid) boot managers they prefer to use. It's really what you're comfortable with. Do you need to …
Re: Crazy Idea - MT32 WaveBlaster Card
Posted on 2017-01-20, 04:48
ospark is expensive once you get over like an inch by an inch. I go seeed studio for my larger boards. Fair enough. I've heard of seeed studio, just don't know enough about them. OSH would be about $70 to get the two boards I need for what I want to do, so it might be beneficial to look somewhere …
Re: Crazy Idea - MT32 WaveBlaster Card
Posted on 2017-01-19, 23:49
it will probably be 10pcbs and i doubt i will need more than 2 of them You should check out OSH Park (https://oshpark.com)... pretty sure that's who I'm going to order through, and reviews are good. $5/sq.in of your design which includes 3 pcbs. Biggest complaint I've read is they're slow, which is …
Re: Socket 5 Dell motherboard Indentification
Posted on 2017-01-19, 21:06
Given the era and Dell, I can pretty much guarantee that the power connector is not a standard ATX power pin out. I think you would have to find the original Dell manual somewhere to find the pinout for sure, or maybe someone else here has a resource for that information. The brown slot above the …
Re: Crazy Idea - MT32 WaveBlaster Card
Posted on 2017-01-18, 21:40
Have you published information about your homemade MIDI interface somewhere? Yes and no; I have a half-written blog post about all of the ways I tried to hook up MIDI to my host computer and settling on the Atmega 328, but I just haven't had the cycles to complete it. I'll update in this thread …
Re: HardMPU, anyone?
Posted on 2017-01-18, 03:18
Just play games with it, note any problems, and ideally have some know-how to possibly make some contributions to the project. What I don't want is for it to just end up in someone's "to-do" pile with other unfinished projects. It'd be my pleasure, and more than willing/able to contribute …
Re: Windows 3.11 Boot logo not showing up
Posted on 2017-01-17, 14:00
Jo22 wrote: http://www.mdgx.com/w31toy.htm Thanks for the link! I was able to find a download here to solve my Win3.1 install Y2K problem 🤣
Re: ISA MIDI-only wavetable cards?
Posted on 2017-01-17, 00:43
Not sure if this is what you're talking about, but I've seen a couple motherboards with a "wavetable" header that's just a 2x3 or 2x4 pin header, rather than the "proper" 2x13 pin header that is the usual WaveBlaster header. Presumably this header has just the bare minimum of signal pins (5V, GND, …
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