Re: Dos Sound Driver
Posted on 2018-04-10, 00:14
It shouldn't need much restructuring, mostly just specifying variable sizes when they are used before they are declared.
Re: Can't remember name of a old pc game
Posted on 2018-04-09, 01:13
Re: Dos Sound Driver
Posted on 2018-04-08, 18:16
The code looks like a sloppy combination of ideal and masm syntax. WASM doesn't support the "smart" directive or multiple passes so you will have to make some changes. It's also more strict and throws errors for things TASM lets you get away with, like omitting the proc name from ends/endp. But I …
Re: What is the longest peripheral card in your possession?
Posted on 2018-04-08, 17:21
Interesting. I wonder if there are ISA cards longer than AWE32, or modern PCIe cards longer than 6800 Ultra Mac. Anyway.... https://i.imgur.com/pkGb21W.gif You're not going to find a mass-produced ISA card with a PCB longer than 13.3", because that's "full length". Anything longer will not fit in a …
Re: Dos Sound Driver
Posted on 2018-04-08, 05:50
Good to read that I'm not alone in this. I've been wanting to extend VSB (Virtual Sound Blaster) to support newer AC'97 and Intel HD Audio chipsets, but first, I need to port the existing assembly code from TASM to an open source assembler. This has proven to be much easier said than done. I've …
Re: Retro Hardware Prices... are NUTS!
Posted on 2018-04-07, 14:58
Prices have been increasing for over a decade on the PC front. Luckily I got most of my stuff before then. In the late 90s/early 2000s people were giving it away. It wasn't "retro" then, just old junk. A computer store in my town used to sell used ISA cards and motherboards for $1 each. 15 years ago …
Re: What is the longest peripheral card in your possession?
Posted on 2018-04-07, 14:40
I don't really get this thread...full length ISA cards aren't rare. I have a box full of them. Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA, memory and I/O expansions, etc.
Re: Unable to set default directory for DOS (Win95 installed)
Posted on 2018-03-20, 06:30
Just put "cd\games" in windows\dosstart.bat
Re: Retro computers and noise
Posted on 2018-03-19, 04:53
Yeah they were loud. My Athlon sounded like a C-130.
Re: Benchmarking DOOM with sound cards
Posted on 2018-03-18, 06:10
What are the SB/GUS FPS with sound only and music only?
Re: Internally routing one sound card's output to another?
Posted on 2018-03-15, 00:32
I recommend just using an external mixer, especially if you have multiple computers.
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.
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