Re: GLX Player the only XT player ? Check Mod Master...
Posted on 2022-01-31, 17:42
FreddyV wrote on 2022-01-31, 13:35: It is not possible to change the font in CGA/EGA Actually, it is possible in EGA text mode.
Re: Old CGA monochrome monitor color fidelity
Posted on 2022-01-24, 17:15
Does the system still exist, i.e. can you find out which type of video card is installed? There were indeed a few any-standard-on-any-monitor cards that could display CGA graphics on an MDA monitor. For instance, ATI had several in its "Wonder" series of cards.
Re: Can an EGA card produce a double-scanned video signal?
Posted on 2022-01-24, 13:57
My current hypothesis is that EGA cards that do not have a 16Mhz clock generator (like the one my CGA card also has), are not capable of creating single-scan video. The EGA cards I know can produce single-scan video all have such a generator. That sounds fishy to me. IIRC, the 16.257MHz pixel clock …
Re: Can an EGA card produce a double-scanned video signal?
Posted on 2022-01-23, 20:42
I am not familiar with that particular card, but the ATI EGA Wonder 800+ that I have is basically a VGA card minus the RAMDAC. If yours is a similarly late EGA card that actually uses a VGA chip, the double-scanned 400-line EGA mode is essentially a free bonus.
Re: Old CGA monochrome monitor color fidelity
Posted on 2022-01-18, 20:13
MDA monitors could also be driven with an EGA card. The result was a 640x350 pixel mode with three shades, including black. It could also have been a dual-frequency screen, though. That would indeed support CGA graphics.
Re: Wikipedia deleted its "List of games with EAX support" page
Posted on 2022-01-09, 15:02
While I agree that Wikipedia is way past the point where insisting on a topic's "significance" makes any sense, the serious quality issues with that page were real. IMHO, the quality issues, especially the questionable verifiability, do indeed make it unsuitable for an encyclopedia. Just put it …
Re: What EMU to run CGA games on the 5151 with Hercules?
Posted on 2021-12-25, 10:32
While it is not the main subject, there is a discussion on various CGA emulators in this thread: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games
Re: GLX Player the only XT player ? Check Mod Master...
Posted on 2021-12-24, 12:10
About the code publishing. If somebody make money with a game using my code it can be Nice if I have some compensation. It is more a matter of respect for my job than making money... I have enaugh money. I surely make more money in one Day in my job that I will do with Mod Master in one year 😀 My …
Re: Disney Sound Source sounds wrong
Posted on 2021-12-19, 14:09
matze79 wrote on 2021-12-19, 11:10: Well I would first start with cleaning the VR. Spill it with isopropyl alcohol and turn it bit forward and back. One could also try to connect a resistor in parallel using test leads. If that makes a difference, the variable resistor needs to be cleaned or …
Re: Clone of Amstrad's Adlib clone
Posted on 2021-12-19, 11:35
And it fits and works! Very nice! Is there a parts list available? KiCad can generate a parts list for you, albeit without specific part numbers, because I did not specify any. Also note that the PCB layout still contains some minor errors/insufficiencies that I never corrected, because I do not …
Re: Does anybody make 3d-printed or otherwise plastic low-profile PCI brackets to make a low-profile sound card?
Posted on 2021-11-22, 15:46
So my thought was, simply take a 3-D printed generic bracket and drill 3 holes in it for the inputs/outputs. Does anybody sell something like that? I had no look cruising ebay. What speaks against the obvious, i.e. drilling holes in an ordinary low-profile bracket? If it is the absence of mounting …
Re: Cable for Proprietary Gameport Connector on MicronPC Transport Laptop
Posted on 2021-10-31, 17:09
Judging by the number of contacts, it should be electrically compatible. May I suggest the following procedure? Grab some wires and wire the socket to a solder-less breadboard Try to find all GND contacts by measuring the resistance between each contact and the shielding. Try to find all +5V …
Re: Quandchrome EGA screen failure.
Posted on 2021-10-27, 11:42
If you don't want to open the PSU, you could still try to take pictures of the PSU board with a mobile phone camera through the ventilation holes. Maybe you can spot something that looks obviously broken. I used that technique on an ATX PSU once.
Re: Develop my own Video player using FFMPEG library for DOS
Posted on 2021-10-21, 18:27
The way I read it, llm wanted to imply that you could perhaps reuse the Allegro part of that player in combination with decoders from FFMPEG. You would have to dive a little bit into Allegro's source code, though.
Re: Say "Hi!" to the Renovation SSI-2001!
Posted on 2021-10-13, 15:06
http://www.sidmusic.org/sid/blubb1.html Little Information about Blubb Soundcard Interesting, but not particularly relevant, because we already have our hardware. Yes! I see it actually exists: https://github.com/cadaver/siddump That would be something useful. The files would be much larger than a …
Re: Say "Hi!" to the Renovation SSI-2001!
Posted on 2021-10-12, 19:26
Yes! I see it actually exists: https://github.com/cadaver/siddump That would be something useful. The files would be much larger than a typical .sid file I guess, but maybe it could be compressed to a reasonable size. The people in this Kiwi forum thread have come up with a somewhat more compact …
Re: Say "Hi!" to the Renovation SSI-2001!
Posted on 2021-10-11, 09:32
root42 wrote on 2021-10-11, 08:08: Or have it work similar to the Adlib captures of DosBox et al. where you simply record the register values, making the 6510 emulation obsolete. You mean like SIDDump? That sounds like the easiest solution. A recompiler based on the SIDdecompiler mentioned above …
Re: Say "Hi!" to the Renovation SSI-2001!
Posted on 2021-10-01, 10:25
matze79 wrote on 2021-09-29, 20:30: Yeah it would require to emulate 6502 CPU 😒 Speaking of which: I recently found this thing here: https://github.com/Galfodo/SIDdecompiler Could we pair that with assembly language translation to create a 6502-to-8086 recompiler for SID files?
Re: ATI Small Wonder technical info
Posted on 2021-09-28, 13:55
The Commodore manual also contains the CRTC parameter tables for all the different modes and therefore technically everything you need. (With monitor type detection being a notable exception. That is a software hack, but a sensible one.) By the way: Have you taken a look at my Plantronics ColorPlus …
Re: ATI Small Wonder technical info
Posted on 2021-09-28, 11:06
You will find all the technical info you are looking for in Commodore's manual for the "PC10/PC20 Advanced Graphics Adapter", which was a rebranded ATI "Small Wonder" Graphics Solution. I also wrote a small demo program that displays a 640x200 pixel 16-color bitmap. You can find both, the manual and …
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