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Re: The "12-bit" Sound Blaster 16 Myth

Posted on 2019-05-10, 19:48

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

(snip) Creative certainly had their issues, but c'mon guys. It isn't going to stand up to a Metric Halo LIO-8 for sure, but jesus... it was the 90s. Couldn't agree more. The early sound card industry was literally breaking new ground, and was very affordable for what it offered. As proof by all the …

Re: The "12-bit" Sound Blaster 16 Myth

Posted on 2019-05-10, 04:58

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

74.48 / 6.02 = ~12 Care to explain? I understand what you're getting at, but don't think it applies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal-to-noise_ratio#Fixed_point Given frequency response (typically) can vary by quite a bit across the entire frequency spectrum, I wonder how they arrived at 74 . …

Re: Remember those early-mid 2000s gaming cases? Here's an Ultra Wizard Sleeper Build

Posted on 2019-05-10, 03:08

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

You got any pics of yours? Absolutely! I don't think it's ever got any attention in the prior ~18 years - but this thing has become a trusted part of my life! IMG_20190509_191746.jpg IMG_20190509_191821.jpg The blue silicone tubing suspends and vibration-isolates the drives. Drive bays are all …

Re: AUDIO Patch supporting FLAC, Opus, and MP3 audio tracks

Posted on 2019-05-08, 23:39

in DOSBox Patches

in DOSBox Patches

Yesterplay80 wrote: krcroft, do you have an updated patch? Version 9 of your patch doesn't apply any longer after r4223. Yesterplay80, thanks for the heads up. Sync'd up patch is posted (download)

Re: AUDIO Patch supporting FLAC, Opus, and MP3 audio tracks

Posted on 2019-05-06, 20:54

in DOSBox Patches

in DOSBox Patches

Right on QBix; testing continues with the latest builds containing this update, and all are free from valgrind memory issues. Cheers!

Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread

Posted on 2019-05-05, 04:03

in Milliways

in Milliways

mwdmeyer wrote: @RetroSpector78 very nice videos, thanks! Seconding that! Thanks for a very informative and high quality video.

Re: Remember those early-mid 2000s gaming cases? Here's an Ultra Wizard Sleeper Build

Posted on 2019-05-05, 03:36

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

That's the chieftec dragon series; I'm still rocking mine from the early 2000's. It's such a solid, versatile and workable case with its easy-off sides, the slide in drive bay, and all the slot space. It's hosted a dual-cpu Applebred Duron setup running Gentoo, then an early Core 2, and is still my …

Re: AUDIO Patch supporting FLAC, Opus, and MP3 audio tracks

Posted on 2019-05-04, 16:51

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in DOSBox Patches

Yeah setting them to 0 is enough to avoid the crash, but I think this should be done as well, as always connecting the multiple iso's to the first drive is probably not correct. I tested your patch as-is loading many, single-file BIN-CUE pair containing embedded CDDA tracks. So I had imgmounts to …

Re: AUDIO Patch supporting FLAC, Opus, and MP3 audio tracks

Posted on 2019-05-04, 12:49

in DOSBox Patches

in DOSBox Patches

Yeah setting them to 0 is enough to avoid the crash, but I think this should be done as well, as always connecting the multiple iso's to the first drive is probably not correct. Yes, I think we should stop the music before deleting, because SDL could still be accessing some of prior allocated …

Re: AUDIO Patch supporting FLAC, Opus, and MP3 audio tracks

Posted on 2019-05-04, 05:40

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in DOSBox Patches

Turns out there's a bug in SVN affecting mounting multiple iso images, it can trash random memory so may be the cause of these issues. It's the same bug as described here: https://sourceforge.net/p/dosbox/bugs/368/ I wasn't able to get DOSBox to outright crash (segfault or bus-error under Linux), …

Re: AUDIO Patch supporting FLAC, Opus, and MP3 audio tracks

Posted on 2019-05-04, 03:56

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in DOSBox Patches

jmarsh - thanks for squashing this concern regarding the patch. I've been valgrinding my prior patch and now this patch with all codecs supported, and am unable to generate any memory issues in my portion. (I also can't reproduce the original issue, so will dig into your link!); thanks again.

Re: AUDIO Patch supporting FLAC, Opus, and MP3 audio tracks

Posted on 2019-05-04, 03:07

in DOSBox Patches

in DOSBox Patches

Revision 9 Updates This is a maintenance release without function changes. Under the hood things to continue to improve both in what I'm working on the DOSBox side (comments, warnings, etc) and especially within the one-header-file packages this patch uses and includes. See the changelogs below. …

Re: AUDIO Patch supporting FLAC, Opus, and MP3 audio tracks

Posted on 2019-05-02, 18:22

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in DOSBox Patches

Thank you Bam!

Re: AUDIO Patch supporting FLAC, Opus, and MP3 audio tracks

Posted on 2019-05-02, 14:30

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in DOSBox Patches

Sounds good Bam. Yes, any tips or a script you can send to let me generate and run a flatpak build would be very helpful. I'm on Ubuntu 18.04, kernel 5.0.10 (latest stable as of this message). Thanks!

Re: AUDIO Patch supporting FLAC, Opus, and MP3 audio tracks

Posted on 2019-05-02, 14:05

in DOSBox Patches

in DOSBox Patches

Hey Yesterplay, Thanks for the heads up. I didn't touch that part of the code, but will certainly kick the tires and try to reproduce it or at a minimum create a debug build of just SVN plus the audio support patch that you can pass onto those reporting it. Another thing I can do is pull in the …

Re: Celeron 700 vs Pentium 400

Posted on 2019-04-28, 05:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

another user had posted a timedemo and I shared some of my results in this post with the p3 750 https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=63918&start=20#p717641 but I can't say it's particularly bad in terms of stutters or anything. I dropped game.dem in my valve/ directory, and ran playdemo game …

Re: Dosbox dropping pressed keys?

Posted on 2019-04-28, 03:10

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

I wasn't able to reproduce in doom using those settings, at least not in a few minutes of running around the acid pit in e1m1. It always took awhile to reproduce in doom though. I can still reproduce in gta very quickly with those settings, though. I wanted an excuse to say something like "john …

Re: Dosbox dropping pressed keys?

Posted on 2019-04-27, 17:54

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Aaronp, Is it reproduceable just sitting at the DOSBox prompt? (prior to launching doom) If not, then it feels somewhat like a cpu starvation issue; for example if the single DOSBox thread is over-scheduled and sdl's event handler function is not context-switched to in time for sdl to consider the …

Re: Public FTP servers thread

Posted on 2019-04-26, 05:02

in Milliways

in Milliways

Agreed; I'm merely replying with facts on a 1:1 basis against veiled threats.

Re: Public FTP servers thread

Posted on 2019-04-26, 04:10

in Milliways

in Milliways

Aside from the ethical issue ... The Council on Library and Information Resources disagrees with you, in their own wording: "Virtually everyone views preservation copying as socially beneficial. It is consistent with the Constitutional purposes for copyright since the preservation of printed …

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