Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-05-22, 04:01

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Most enthusiasts are just being too particular and want to buy cheap rare hardware online instead of looking at garage sales and things like that. With patience you can still find cool retro hardware. Thing is, that you can build an ok DOS machine from a pentium 4 and a DOS compatible PCI sound …

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Re: Why is Gravis Ultrasound very expensive?

Posted on 2022-05-21, 16:26

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rare, but not at all desirable unless you play epic pinball games. There is a bit more than just Epic Pinball such as Jazz Jackrabbit, Zone 66, Stargunner (not sure about this one but it doesn't allow me to select the sample rate and DMA channel in the setup program for the GUS), Death Rally and …

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Re: Why is Gravis Ultrasound very expensive?

Posted on 2022-05-21, 13:46

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Although AMD made the InterWave chip which was more capable than the GF1, the additional features were barely used even in the demoscene. The compatibility issue appears to be timing-related which doesn't match the GF1, but in most cases this was hardly noticeable. More information about this in …

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Re: To upgrade or not to upgrade? That is the question. (i486 DOSBox)

Posted on 2022-05-21, 02:31

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Just keep in mind that with the exception of the SB32, maybe, none of the cards mentioned has a real MPU-401 on-board. So you need a TSR from Creative, which is hit and miss and works for real-mode games only, but can emulate an MT32 using standard instruments (ok for Secret of Monkey Island). Also …

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Re: To upgrade or not to upgrade? That is the question. (i486 DOSBox)

Posted on 2022-05-21, 01:20

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Disruptor wrote on 2022-05-18, 21:13: Not an ET4000 W32 or an ATI Mach64. The VLB version of the S3 Trio64 is one of the most advanced video cards, not something that I consider "cheap".

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Re: So, what games would you recommend for my Pentium 1 system? Go nuts!

Posted on 2022-05-20, 14:15

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I don't recommend the 3Dfx versions of both Blood and Shadow Warrior, the renderer isn't properly hardware-accelerated.

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Re: SY-5EMA+ writing cache becomes disabled

Posted on 2022-05-19, 20:48

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Hi Baoran, Ik believe I know why a lot of socket 7 systems show this 512MB RAM issue. All Award socket 7 BIOSes that I've checked have a limitation in the Write-Allocate feature. So this issue is not limited to one particular chipset, but is present on all super socket 7 boards with the Award BIOS. …

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Re: need help with Dosbox in genereal and a specific game Mr potatohead saves veggie valley

Posted on 2022-05-19, 04:09

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Hello. That's a 16-bit Windows application (which doesn't work with 64-bit Windows OSes) and "Please run this installation under Windows 3.1 or higher" message is quite obvious. You should try OTVDM for that game. Alternatively, Windows 3.1 can be installed within DOSBox if you have a copy.

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Re: Downgrading Dx Versions

Posted on 2022-05-19, 02:05

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leileilol wrote on 2022-05-19, 01:29: (i personally think DX downgrading's all crap advice anyway as the APIs separate their major releases in different DLLs) +1 Downgrading DirectX never made any sense to me at all.

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Re: Shoudl SOFTMPU support non-MT32 general midi devices as well?

Posted on 2022-05-18, 21:41

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keenerb wrote on 2022-05-18, 21:35: The first post on the thread was regarding using my sbpro. I didn't have the MPU installed at that point, I was exploring how softmpu worked. It had no bearing on the first post. Ok, then what I said about Sound Blaster MIDI mode still applies in this thread.

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Re: Shoudl SOFTMPU support non-MT32 general midi devices as well?

Posted on 2022-05-18, 21:26

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Decreased compatibility with Sound Blaster MIDI mode is what maxtherabbit exactly said: no digitized sounds effects (not counting the ones coming from the MIDI device) and MIDI at the same time. Edit: Removed statement related to dedicated MPU-401 card as the OP doesn't have it installed.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-18, 12:46

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Grzyb wrote on 2022-05-18, 06:00: XT with 286 ? Strange... There is an actual IBM XT 286.

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Re: Invalid Drive

Posted on 2022-05-18, 12:07

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Yes, both partitions should be FAT16. The downside is that all the data that is currently on that HDD will be lost by doing this.

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Re: Invalid Drive

Posted on 2022-05-18, 04:38

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Does the other HDD has partitions larger than 2GB? MS-DOS version up to 6.22 (and version 7.0 but I don't consider that pure DOS) usually doesn't support FAT32 partitions.

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Re: Shoudl SOFTMPU support non-MT32 general midi devices as well?

Posted on 2022-05-18, 04:19

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I don't think SoftMPU is required for external modules that don't require intelligent mode? My understanding is that SoftMPU is for use with the MT-32 only. You should be able to just connect your Sound Canvas (without running SoftMPU) and games should play fine on it, unless the game is configured …

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Re: SB Awe32 midi out, how do I use it?

Posted on 2022-05-17, 17:56

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Ok, I incorrectly assumed that yours was PnP. Should have asked that before. :P Now that you can set the MPU-401 I/O address (must be thru jumpers), is there a third MIDI device in Control Panel/Multimedia? For DOS games within Windows, "Allow MPU401 Emulation on this device" which is found in AWE …

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Re: SB Awe32 midi out, how do I use it?

Posted on 2022-05-17, 16:22

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The MFBEN jumper is for whether allowing MPU-401 emulation or not thru the EMU8K with AWEUTIL. Has nothing to do with the actual MPU-401 compatible interface that can be used thru the gameport. Since your AWE32 is PnP, you should adjust the resources in Device Manager. There is also the "Settings …

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

Posted on 2022-05-17, 15:38

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From a practical standpoint, just having a Roland MT-32 and SoundCanvas SC-55 will cover all the bases for MIDI support for classic games. True, having something like LGR's MIDI mountain isn't that practical for most people. There are individual general MIDI modules that sound good with certain …

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Re: SB Awe32 midi out, how do I use it?

Posted on 2022-05-17, 13:49

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Can you display how the resources are set for the AWE32 through Device Manager? Apparently the MPU-401 isn't enabled on the sound card which should have the I/O address of 330h.

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Re: List of popular DOS games and their optimal sound system

Posted on 2022-05-17, 12:53

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The Crusader series are an interesting example: GUS output is mono even though the game uses tracker music and takes advantage of the hardware mixer. The "optimal" sound cards are the Ensoniq Soundscape and SB16 because it does support 16-bit mixing and has stereo separation for the music. Any other …

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