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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-03-07, 05:57

in Milliways

in Milliways

I’m on mission 10 of Warcraft 2 (Orc campaign), never played it before and it’s very nice! The only downside compared to modern titles is the limited number of units one can select at the same time. Heh. Don't try playing Warcraft 1 then. :P 4 units is still better than 1 (Looking at You Dune 2.. * …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-03-06, 13:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The Dell OEM A2ZS (SB0358) won't detect when trying to install the standard Audigy 2 ZS drivers. I got a EEPROM dump (thanks to @LoStSOul) and it should be as much as just writing the EEPROM that fixes it and turns it into a retail card. Isn't installing kx drivers a much simpler and better …

Re: Adventure remakes

Posted on 2024-03-01, 12:39

in DOS

in DOS

robertmo3 wrote on 2024-03-01, 06:05: here you said something different 😀 Re: Adventure remakes poll Umm, I think I said I wanted a PQ2 remake there? And now there is not one in the works? Hence I'm sad? I don't understand 😁

Re: 32-bit OS that will run best on 8MB 386sx-16

Posted on 2024-03-01, 06:01

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Linux on 386/4MB is possible with some very old distros, one in particular I always remember "monkey Linux" comes in about a 20MB archive you can unzip onto an MSDOS filesystem. Based on an old slackware with a.out binaries though so even recompiling newer stuff for it might be a challenge. Well …

Re: Adventure remakes

Posted on 2024-03-01, 06:00

in DOS

in DOS

robertmo3 wrote on 2024-02-29, 19:24: removing: -Police Quest 2 That's sad 🙁

Re: Unofficial Soundbanks for Dreamblaster X2 / X3M / X16

Posted on 2024-03-01, 05:59

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Ah.. We still have the MT-32 soundbank you made for X2 earlier I guess. Do you have a comparable recording of that one? I never did a MT-32 soundbank for X2. The RolandGM and some other banks have MT-32 mappings tho.. Ah, I see. Well, I suppose it's not possible to downsample the X16 one to fit …

Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-02-28, 19:31

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

It could be a PnP error or reserve conflict. Try to reserve in BIOS the IRQ and DMA you jumpered your card at.

Re: Poll. How did you handle AGP to PCI Express stepover?

Posted on 2024-02-28, 10:36

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I had a fast Socket A + 9800PRO. It was still in second hand demand, so I sold it, bought a mATX AM2 motherboard and an X1600PRO PCI-e. Done.

Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread

Posted on 2024-02-28, 10:35

in Milliways

in Milliways

I really appreciate your Assembly videos. I really ought to download and archive them.. They will make a fun retirement project 😀

Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.80a

Posted on 2024-02-28, 10:34

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

This has also happened to me on a CT4520 card. The first time I initialized it with UNISOUND it detected 32KB of RAM. A few reboots later it detected as 256KB. A few reboots later it would detect 512KB reliably. I have no idea what the issue was, it might be card related as well, possibly some …

Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.80a

Posted on 2024-02-28, 06:40

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I noticed an issue as of the latest UNISOUND when using it with my AWE64 Gold + SIMMconn (32MB). If I just run UNISOUND on system startup, the detected amount of AWE memory shown by UNISOUND would be either 0K or some random small amounts. My SIMMconn is fine, however, as DIAGNOSE can properly see …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-02-28, 06:33

in Milliways

in Milliways

I started playing Sierra's Conquest of Camelot and, which is rare for me, played it nearly all the way through to what I assume is the final section. However, turns out that in classic adventure game manner I overlooked a room in the starting location (castle Camelot) where you were supposed to …

Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2024-02-28, 06:26

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Mint is my main linux distribution as well. I honestly prefer Cinnamon/Xfce to MATE but I prefer MATE to Gnome 3 and KDE. I think 'trying to emulate Windows' is not a productive argument. The keyboard and mouse GUIs have been around for 40 years now, and kind of peaked around the Windows XP/7 era. …

Re: Unofficial Soundbanks for Dreamblaster X2 / X3M / X16

Posted on 2024-02-28, 06:22

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

There is an X16 recording of the Monkey Island MT-32 theme, and it sounds glorious. Is this soundbank also X2/X3 compatible? Unfortunately no.. Due to the huge size of 230 MiB even for the mono version, it wouldn't fit X2/X3 Ah.. We still have the MT-32 soundbank you made for X2 earlier I guess. Do …

Re: Unofficial Soundbanks for Dreamblaster X2 / X3M / X16

Posted on 2024-02-26, 09:28

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

There is an X16 recording of the Monkey Island MT-32 theme, and it sounds glorious. Is this soundbank also X2/X3 compatible?

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-02-23, 22:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, that took a while, but my Atari ST emulators are done. And now that they're done and it feels good to have done it 😀

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-02-23, 08:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Started soldering some AmigaMidi boards. The passives are done, I'll likely get them finished tonight.

Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2024-02-23, 05:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have two IBM branded 5x86-100s that both work fine at 120. Rumor is IBM picket 120s and labelled them as 100s? Regardless, I'm happy I got them when I did. Awesome chips. One of them is the core of my daily use 486 😀

Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2024-02-22, 11:47

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Is there an MR BIOS in our repo vor either ALi M1429G/1431 or 85C407/471?

Re: The Soundblaster DSP project

Posted on 2024-02-22, 08:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Kahenraz wrote on 2024-02-22, 04:35: The DSP is integrated into the sound chip for the AWE64 and is not compatible. But the AWE64 is already bug free, I believe. Correct on both accounts.

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