Re: Adlib To Midi

Posted on 2019-11-05, 18:07

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Ok, so now we are splitting hairs. If people find that the YMF7xxx or the CT1747 sound completely different, so be it. Personally, I'm satisfied with either since they fit the bill of providing a true Yamaha synth for different applications. As for the sound output, the OPL chips themselves don't …

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Re: Adlib To Midi

Posted on 2019-11-05, 18:06

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http://hw.fagear.ru/wp-content/uploads/20140410_610436.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vLc9iB92E3AQHHBg1Wp5pzt3znz7jL8U7EJKAh384TroKGGrZoTfgIlGpQyhHXLWPCrcIGHwcUzrT3O36uU5LIox3RI7fwjyyxsr1JMo8n1HdHhUgv0N0pEzysr4fr6toILMJojoXQ=w2400 That chip, the CT1747 contains a full, licenced, Yamaha OPL3 …

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Re: Adlib To Midi

Posted on 2019-11-05, 16:04

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Hi, Yes you're right no soundblaster after sb16 contains an original opl 2/3 chip. But this card hasn't also an original OPL 2/3 chip. It may be compatible like the sb 64 or 128 pci in all the aspect of the opl 2/3 but will sound differently also. It's more a yamaha awe 64 card, than an adlib card. …

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Re: Adlib To Midi

Posted on 2019-11-05, 14:11

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anonyme-x22 wrote: Regarding the AOpen Cobra YMF-744. It's not a opl2/3 Fm Chips. The YMF7xx series chips can natively handle OPL2/3 commands and have a built-in synth to do so. It is one of the best solutions to getting true OPL synthesis on a PCI-based system. No Creative SB PCI card has an OPL …

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Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2019-06-21, 19:34

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gdjacobs wrote: I think so, although opinions vary. As do I. Less metallic and agreeable to the ears. If I was building a machine that needed good FM synthesis, and a true OPL-chiped card with good features wasn't an option, the ESFM solution would be first on my list by far.

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Re: Windows 98 games that won't run in Windows XP

Posted on 2019-06-19, 17:15

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Thanks guys. Alright, well I also have a 7600GS that I can use except the rear-mounted heatsink on the graphics card hits the RAM slot tabs. I wonder if I can dremel a cutout on the heatsink just enough to clear those slots. As you can see from the pics below, the AGP slot is right in line with the …

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Windows 98 games that won't run in Windows XP

Posted on 2019-06-16, 15:30

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So, in trying to build a great Windows 98 machine, I've come into a few issues. Namely with ATI videocard compatibility in Windows 98. If DOS is not part of the formula, and neither is A3D, is there any game or games that absolutely require Windows 98 to run? I'll be using a P4 3GHz+HT Prescott ASUS …

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Re: Sorry, non-retro: Anyone get an Audigy PCI card to work in Win10 with Line-In ?

Posted on 2019-05-23, 14:07

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Thanks! I'll try them out ASAP

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Sorry, non-retro: Anyone get an Audigy PCI card to work in Win10 with Line-In ?

Posted on 2019-05-23, 12:53

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I'm sorry, this is clearly a non-retro computing question, but this is driving me crazy. I have a Creative Audigy 2 (non-ZS) PCI card installed in a Dell T5500 with the onboard soundcard disabled. I tried various drivers which succeeded to install. Unfortunately, I can't seem to be able to configure …

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Re: Is it possible to boot to DOS using a PCI to IDE card?

Posted on 2019-05-06, 15:26

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Yes. I tried this using a Promise Ultra100 and even a Promise S150 SATA atapter and both worked, even on a 486. I also tried using a Silicon Image SATA/PATA controller and that worked as well. Just be aware that optical drives DO NOT work in DOS using these cards, but work fine in Windows 9x after …

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Re: Curious Crystal 8-bit ISA midi card, help identifying?

Posted on 2019-04-12, 13:47

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badmojo wrote: Sounds great to me, nice find. Gah, now I want to play Dune2 again 😒 I agree with both these statements. It really does sound great and well balanced.

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Re: Cannot Find Monkey Island Original 256-Color VGA with Sound Setup???

Posted on 2019-04-11, 20:35

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Have you checked for command-line options? There should be a readme.txt or something like it describing the options. I believe "r" after monkey.exe gives you ROLAND MT-32 midi, and "a" gives you adlib/soundblaster music.

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Re: AMD K6-2 equivalent to pentium......

Posted on 2019-04-10, 17:55

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by tpowell.ca

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Very tough to compare as they have VASTLY different performance characteristics with respect to CPU and floating-point operations. I would say that winuser_pl's opinion is very optimistic and definitely only considers non-FPU intensive applications. Compare DOOM scores and Quake scores of each of …

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Re: Pentium 100/98Mb/Voodoo and HalfLife: amazing

Posted on 2019-04-10, 12:43

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Actually with a V2 there's multitexture optimization with the world and the 486 doesn't have to crunch the lightmap blending or span drivers (Quake's two big 486 offenders) leaving more breathing room, GLQuake is far faster than software Quake on one. (as long as you have r_dynamic 0 or gl_ …

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Re: Audiophile PCI sound card for dos games under 9x?

Posted on 2019-04-04, 20:19

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by tpowell.ca

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Indeed. Audiophile is really quite meaningless when the source material is typically 8bit and 22kHz or less. Regardless, the Yamaha YMF744 series cards are solid performers in Windows 98 and DOS, with excellent support for adlib and Sound Blaster (Pro) software, in stereo. Also supports 48kHz in …

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Re: Sound Blaster AWE32 ram ?

Posted on 2019-04-04, 15:37

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by tpowell.ca

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with 60ns you'll be able to overclock your EMU8000 chip and gain some extra wavetable performance. 😵 I jest, of course.

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Re: Hardware GUI Acceleration on GF 6/7 series

Posted on 2019-04-03, 17:47

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by tpowell.ca

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2D acceleration existed since ISA cards, and already present in Windows 3 if the card and it's drivers supported it. The GF 6600GT is way overkill for 2D. Are you using an AGP or PCIe bus? If AGP, just about any card with 16MB of onboard RAM should do, at which point the RAMDAC or DVI output becomes …

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Re: Found an AWE64 Gold II for sale... for only $20,000

Posted on 2019-04-02, 12:44

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by tpowell.ca

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Can it finally handle 48kHz digital audio yet ?

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Re: Found an AWE64 Gold II for sale... for only $20,000

Posted on 2019-04-01, 19:49

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by tpowell.ca

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Still no Yamaha OPL3. 😒

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Re: Best "modern" GFX card and driver for K6 system

Posted on 2019-04-01, 14:34

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by tpowell.ca

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I must agree with the previous posts. Having built a few K6-II+ and K6-III+ systems on ALi and VIA chipsets, I had nothing but trouble except with Voodoo3 cards. Performance in Windows has also been quite bad for anything but the least demanding 3D games. That's why I switched to the i440BX platform …

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