Re: List of VLB IDE Controllers
Posted on 2024-04-15, 09:21
Just wanted to say that I have been watching this thread with much fascination despite having a VLB IO controller in only one retro system..
Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread *** LT board now available ***
Posted on 2024-03-29, 05:45
I'll go out on a limb and say you are trying to use it as a SB16 instead of an SB Pro.. No, I wish it was that simple... I am selecting SB Pro from the menu... but the same is happening when I use the GUS, so the problem seems to be elsewhere (?) What is your SET BLASTER line in AUTOEXEC.BAT? If it …
Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread *** LT board now available ***
Posted on 2024-03-28, 05:37
I'll go out on a limb and say you are trying to use it as a SB16 instead of an SB Pro..
Re: post up pics of your "computing area"
Posted on 2024-03-27, 14:17
8bitfink wrote on 2024-03-27, 12:18: Win98se PII, C64, Arcade, Amiga500 FB_IMG_1709814738457.jpg Oh man, that blue stool. ı didn't know they existed in any other part of the world. Now I desperately need one of those..
Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi
Posted on 2024-03-27, 14:15
That is excellent 😀
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2024-03-27, 07:11
Felt like continuing with scifi shooters after Unreal II so hopped on Red Faction . Haven't played that one yet, but I did watch Digital Foundry's video on it. The destructible environment thing looks amazing, especially considering when Red Faction originally came out. If you haven't played Red …
Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi
Posted on 2024-03-27, 07:02
Can it actually send to or receive from real MIDI devices through Wine? If it can, that would be amazing. I don't have any such devices anymore, but I don't see why it can't. Last time I tried something like that was 10 years ago, running a Windows DAW (Reaper) on Linux with Wine and using a MIDI …
Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi
Posted on 2024-03-26, 11:07
Can it actually send to or receive from real MIDI devices through Wine? If it can, that would be amazing.
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2024-03-26, 10:29
bestemor wrote on 2024-03-22, 21:13: BitWrangler wrote on 2024-03-22, 00:02: I've a dozen reasons to hate the four letter "S" word, but their headphones are useable, if Koss didn't exist I guess I would have to buy them second hand and scratch off the logo. Well, don't we all hate *HIT headphones ? …
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2024-03-26, 10:28
BitWrangler wrote on 2024-03-21, 21:44: IMO the max value for the dollar are KOSS headphones usually. This..
Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?
Posted on 2024-03-26, 10:22
analog_programmer wrote on 2024-03-25, 09:53: Testing out something like SBEMU on Freedos is... why not? It's about compatibility. The video was about SBEMU and how compatible it is but all errors he ran into were issues with FreeDOS. The entire video is kind of misinformation.
Re: Kixs's 286 to the Max Too
Posted on 2024-03-25, 08:57
Marco wrote on 2024-03-25, 08:00: Focusing on easily i agree of course. Umb & EMS etc are much easier. With regards to 4mb dos gaming I am adhoc not aware of Games using this except for Dos4gw which anyway ran too slow. Games like Dune 2 that utilize a good deal of EMS for audio options spring to …
Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?
Posted on 2024-03-25, 06:34
kingcake wrote on 2024-03-22, 23:25: Anyone watch Phil's latest video about SBEMU? It's bizarre. He reviews compatibility, but all the crashes he shows are clearly jemm/freedos crashes. Surely Phil knows that some games don't like jemm? I was wondering about the same thing. Testing out something …
Re: Kixs's 286 to the Max Too
Posted on 2024-03-25, 06:31
After all this I make my personal conclusion: - 386sx is in real usable scenarios just a higher clocked variant of the 286 (which was as mainstream mainly sold up to 16Mhz) - the 32bit advantages of the 386sx is mainly on paper: no one really productively ran w95 on it, advantages of extended win31 …
Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?
Posted on 2024-03-22, 06:23
I've noticed the Amiga fascination is most common in Western Europeans. Why was the Amiga not popular in the US or other countries? Some parts of the Amiga culture that started there and evolved beyond it like trackers got pretty popular here at least in terms of nerd crowds, but I've never heard …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-03-20, 12:33
I have an ST318451LW (first series Seagate Cheetah x15) which was no longer spinning up. I've ordered an ST318451LW from Canada (for ~ 80€ including ship ping to EU), which was working properly. I've swapped the electronics from the Canadian HDD to mine. Mine was spinning up then, but the other no …
Re: Terratec? Crystal? CS4624/4630 Software Wavetable
Posted on 2024-03-20, 06:16
So... I was looking at the wrong driver file :D First of all, cwcwdm.sys expects unencrypted sound bank file, and it indeed doesn't support DLS. Instead it uses CWCWTSMP.DAT bank file, which has custom headers "CS4610v1.0" and "MSAv1.0". Some structures of this file are in fact XORed, so I thought …
Re: Terratec? Crystal? CS4624/4630 Software Wavetable
Posted on 2024-03-19, 07:50
The decryption algorithm seems to be located in the cwcwdm.sys driver, in the function where it opens registry key "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\cwcspud\CS461x\Algorithms\WaveTable" and reads "SampleSet" value from there, which contains the path to CWCDLS8.CLS. Reversing will take some time, …
Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)
Posted on 2024-03-19, 07:49
PicoGUS firmware v1.1.0 is released and is avaiable at https://github.com/polpo/picogus/releases/tag/v1.1.0. Changelog: GUS emulation: Works around a hardware bug in the PCM510xA DAC that results in ~10% of chips to be silent at 22.05kHz sampling rate. This is the rate produced by the GUS at 28 …
Re: Terratec? Crystal? CS4624/4630 Software Wavetable
Posted on 2024-03-18, 06:59
It's the same file as the Terratec, CWCDLS8.CLS so not exactly a DLS.. Maybe someone knows how to convert it to DLS? The filename suggests it's a DLS file, but its byte distribution graph rather shows that it's encrypted: https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=188232 graph.png Anyone …
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