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I use this 1988 mixer with a 486 and a Pentium 3. Are the inputs stereo? Most pro mixers I've come across have maybe 2 stereo inputs, the rest are all mono. Most DJ mixers seem to be stereo, but only 2-4 channels, so not much good for multiple soundcard/rompler setups. They are mono inputs, with …

Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-16, 15:35

by Tempus

in Marvin \ Sound

There’s a portable Sound Canvas. The SCP-55. Requires drivers and a PCMCIA slot.

Re: ISA PCMCIA cards for DOS?

Posted on 2024-01-16, 09:14

by Tempus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I use a SCM Swapbox. Needs drivers for DOS and takes a bit of memory. It also requires B000-BFFF excluded with emm386.exe. Supports up to 32MB ATA.

Re: Sound issues with Westwood Studios games on a G41 machine

Posted on 2024-01-12, 13:19

by Tempus

in Marvin \ Sound

Are you sure about Hand of Fate drivers though? I don't remember exactly but they might be in DRIVER.PAK like in other WW games of the period. So using WWPACK one can replace the driver with the desired one. In fact I clearly remember I have extracted HoF sound drivers, but not the details, and …

Re: Multiple computers, one set of speakers.

Posted on 2024-01-12, 09:25

by Tempus

in Marvin \ Sound

I use this 1988 mixer with a 486 and a Pentium 3.

Re: Sound issues with Westwood Studios games on a G41 machine

Posted on 2024-01-08, 10:59

by Tempus

in Marvin \ Sound

There is a workaround for (real mode) games that rely on either Miles (AIL) or DIGPAK drivers, such as Dune II. Does this work for Hand of Fate CD-version too? I tried to customize Hand of Fate drivers to change the default port 330 to 332, but it didn't seem to use any standard version of the …

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

Posted on 2024-01-07, 14:53

by Tempus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Playing Metal Gear Solid. System: Pentium 3 600MHz Graphics card: 3D Blaster Voodoo 2 Operative System: Windows 98 SE Input: MS Sidewinder Game Pad

Re: akula65 and MS SideWinder 3D Pro Win9x Drivers

Posted on 2024-01-04, 22:58

by Tempus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a similar problem, or at least it looks like similar, but with the Sidewinder Gamepad instead. Could this affect the gamepad too?

Re: Medit locks up my computer

Posted on 2024-01-03, 10:10

by Tempus

in MT-32 General

I realize this should probably have been in software forum under Marvin

Medit locks up my computer

Posted on 2024-01-02, 22:11

by Tempus

in MT-32 General

I was trying to use Medit, a tracker made for composing MT-32 tracks among things, but when I run it, it locks up my computer trying to open the file menu for instance. Anyone have experience with this program? My system runs MS-DOS 6.22.

Re: Achieving absolute 100 % MT-32 compatibility

Posted on 2024-01-02, 19:33

by Tempus

in Marvin \ Sound

I realize I misread part of your text and didn't catch you were asking between CM-32L and MT-32 (new). I don't think there's much difference in compatibility other than minor sound differences. I think you can cover a huge range with just an MT-32 (old) and a CM-32L/LAPC-I.

Re: Low volume on some instruments/channels

Posted on 2024-01-02, 12:56

by Tempus

in MT-32 General

Maybe the game runs into buffer overflow? Normally stated in the display when this happens. When that happens, it will not manage to finish programming and things will sound off. I don't know if Realms is one of those games capable of this, but it normally happens for MT-32 old (no headphone jack in …

Re: How to set up Roland MPU-IPC-T in Windows 98 for DOS games?

Posted on 2023-12-31, 00:51

by Tempus

in Marvin \ Sound

Some cards like my LAPC-I have a static IRQ 2/9, where the jumpers normally be are just shorted instead. The LAPC-I has an MPU-401 interface. J01 equals IRQ 2/9.