Re: More gameports in 486?
Posted on 2018-03-14, 09:34
You can use 4 digital gamepads on a single gameport with the NEC/Gravis GrIP. It also doubles as a traditional splitter for analog controllers.
Re: CMS/Game Blaster game patching and setting a new standard!
Posted on 2018-03-10, 23:23
What if you want to use one card for music and another for sound? That's why I don't call it coexisting.
Re: CMS/Game Blaster game patching and setting a new standard!
Posted on 2018-03-10, 22:23
In your post you said you had to disable all the other cards for the CMS to work on port 220. I wouldn't call that coexisting.
Re: CMS/Game Blaster game patching and setting a new standard!
Posted on 2018-03-10, 22:01
Did what? Had a SB and CMS coexist?
Re: CMS/Game Blaster game patching and setting a new standard!
Posted on 2018-03-10, 21:12
The "point" would be to avoid having to patch all your CMS games. I'm willing to bet the list of games hard coded to use a SB at 220 only is much smaller than the list of CMS games. But to each his own.
Re: CMS/Game Blaster game patching and setting a new standard!
Posted on 2018-03-10, 01:41
I'm pretty sure SET BLASTER doesn't force port usage in all cases. I didn't say it did. But I don't think there are any games with SB hard coded to use port 220, since even SB 1.0 had base I/O jumpers. If BLASTER isn't used directly there will be a setup program, config file, or switch to set the …
Re: CMS/Game Blaster game patching and setting a new standard!
Posted on 2018-03-09, 05:02
I guess I'm confused. Yes 220h is the default SB port, but is it hard coded into any games? That's what SET BLASTER is for...
Re: Pure DOS rig people, want to test this thing I wrote?
Posted on 2018-03-08, 03:38
Updatey updatey, I tested the above executable in 86Box with a 386SX/33 CPU, and lo and behold it works! Not a perfect indicator of whether it would work in the real world though. Interestingly, I had to disable HIMEM in CONFIG.SYS for it to work; otherwise it returned a page fault. Not sure why …
Re: Reasonable Roland MPU401 price?
Posted on 2018-03-07, 03:40
If it's just the box I wouldn't pay more than $50 for an MPU401. They're not that rare.
Re: Microsoft and Windows piracy pre-XP
Posted on 2018-03-06, 06:02
No. The only thing that checked the key was the installer. A lot of people still didn't have Internet back then so "online activation" in software wasn't widespread.
Re: Resound OPL3 AdLib sound card just released
Posted on 2018-03-05, 09:58
I recommend a step drill bit if you're not using one already.
Re: Old games that had CD Audio tracks?
Posted on 2018-03-05, 08:39
Re: Resound OPL3 AdLib sound card just released
Posted on 2018-02-28, 01:55
Which is also an awesome source for fraud ... considering the last AdLib I've seen on eBay sold for 451€ Wow I didn't know they went for that much now...I got one boxed for $50 about 12 years ago. I partly agree. When the creator first posted about these at VCF I questioned the need for it to be an …
Re: Resound OPL3 AdLib sound card just released
Posted on 2018-02-27, 15:29
There is also an actual Adlib replica
Re: When will Microsoft finally die?
Posted on 2018-02-25, 14:35
Apple has eaten Linux's lunch. It's a huge company now, bigger than Microsoft and IBM put together. It's success is fragile however, and could disappear overnight if something "cooler" comes along. Nobody needs iMacs and iPhones and iPads like they do Windows and IBM mainframes. bahahaha what? What …
Re: MDA/CGA/EGA to VGA Converter Released!
Posted on 2018-02-21, 01:41
I've been also meaning to ask about Jepael's pulldown resistors on the EGA port , is adding them an extra layer of protection for the EGA card? If one adds them then a new FW is needed to compensate for them? Even with the existing boards adding pulldown resistors on the DB9 port is easy if one …
Re: MDA/CGA/EGA to VGA Converter Released!
Posted on 2018-02-18, 17:35
Bright yellow is actually supposed to be slightly "washed out" like the rest of the bright colors. You can see this in keropi's VGA screen shot and also if you look at the RGB values for the CGA/EGA palette . Pure yellow would be FFFF00, but it's FFFF55. VGA: http://i.imgur.com/bGE1NwYl.jpg …
Re: MDA/CGA/EGA to VGA Converter Released!
Posted on 2018-02-18, 06:54
Your colors look good keropi. Now just turn down your monitor brightness 😜
Re: Why the heck is my wi-fi so slow?
Posted on 2018-02-16, 04:01
Yep. If you are moving lots of data, wired is the way to go. You don't need to run cables across the floor to your router. Just connect the two computers together and give them static IPs. That said, a sucky router is going to give you sucky wifi speeds. So if you found it in a dumpster, it was …
Re: MDA/CGA/EGA to VGA Converter Released!
Posted on 2018-02-16, 01:36
From that picture, the light colors look too saturated, especially blue, red and magenta. But it could be the camera/monitor? Can you take a "control" photo of CGACAL with the same monitor but hooked directly to a VGA card?
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