Re: Advice about retro speakers

Posted on 2019-09-26, 09:26

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by kolderman

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jheronimus wrote: Expensive audio equipment in the 90s was mostly black, so are my Roland modules. So currently I'm looking at this: In that case you might want to look at Creative's T20/T30 models. I think they have excellent sound for the money, and the angled design would probably fit in well …

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Re: Minimum files needed to launch a Windows 3.1 game?

Posted on 2019-09-26, 04:24

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by kolderman

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This is cool. I utterly despise win3.1 and being able to run the few games that need it without starting it or having to install it is nice.

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Re: What is a good laptop for retro game play ?

Posted on 2019-09-25, 23:31

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by kolderman

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Watch the 8-bit-guy video on exactly this.

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Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2019-09-25, 23:09

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by kolderman

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Do you install any kind of network blockers? Running behind pi-hole? I actually activated SC-VA through a Ubuntu router using Wireshark to observe its traffic...if I recall it just calls out to Roland and to verisign to do certificate revocations checks. As I said no problems. When you try and …

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Re: SATA2PATA adapters experience

Posted on 2019-09-25, 22:33

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by kolderman

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The chances of getting a dud anything from China is rather high 😁 But the ones that work, work well in my experience. SSD or HDD. I love the ones that plug straight into the IDE port and don't require a PATA cable (yuck).

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Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2019-09-25, 22:24

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by kolderman

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Wow this Roland software is terrible. Reinstalled Windows and now the plugin loads, but when I go to activate it just says "Sound Canvas VA is running in trial mode" :angry: Why do you think you can activate it on more than 2 computers? You said you had it running on two other computers already. I …

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Re: Space Quest III and MT-32 Under Windows 98SE

Posted on 2019-09-25, 06:39

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by kolderman

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Try running sq3 inside dosbox on that PC....I think it can still ouput midi over your soundcard joystick port maybe...and slow it down there. Or get a Via C3 ezra cpu, should fit your mobo. It's hella slow than a p3 though.

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Re: Space Quest III and MT-32 Under Windows 98SE

Posted on 2019-09-25, 06:24

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by kolderman

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Yes. I often have games lock up with any kind of midi if I do not slow down to 386 speeds. Of course you need a supported CPU...what do you have?

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Re: Space Quest III and MT-32 Under Windows 98SE

Posted on 2019-09-25, 06:14

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by kolderman

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Tried slowing down your cpu?

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Re: SATA2PATA adapters experience

Posted on 2019-09-25, 02:23

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by kolderman

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

> where I thought it's a dual ATA Host mode for connecting a SATA device,but instead of that, one port is configured in Master mode and other in Slave mode I would be happy with master/slave. I have one where one port is sata->pata and the other pata->sata. Disappointed.

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Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2019-09-23, 20:05

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by kolderman

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You have the 32-bit version of midiplayer? Selecting the correct file to load in the plugin?

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Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2019-09-23, 19:10

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by kolderman

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Purchased Sound Canvas VA last night and was very excited to use it this morning, but can't seem to get it working. When I load it in FSMP on my laptop, nothing happens. It just sits there and I can't click on anything in the VST panel or FSMP. No CPU/HDD activity, I've let it sit for ~15 minutes …

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Re: Radeon & GeForce texture filtering quality

Posted on 2019-09-23, 07:41

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by kolderman

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So I was able to reproduce the grey circle discontinuity and Rebel Commando crashed out when starting a mission. Oh well, I'll be a gtx xp man until my next xp build I guess.

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2019-09-23, 07:37

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by kolderman

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in Marvin \ Software

It's called a virtual monopoly.

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Re: Radeon & GeForce texture filtering quality

Posted on 2019-09-23, 05:56

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by kolderman

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Thanks swaaye. I thought the XP generation of games was the simplest to satisfy...but not the case. I wonder if there are any games from say the Vista/7 eras that won't run well on a modern PC due to hardware support for parts of DX9/DX10. I tend to assume if it came out in 2007+ it will run on a …

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Re: Radeon & GeForce texture filtering quality

Posted on 2019-09-23, 05:20

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by kolderman

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I really like the quality and performance of the 5850 in general . I am thinking of keeping a second XP-gen system to house a GTX5xx for edge cases like Source games or laaate DX8 games that are too new to run on my FX5950/P4 system.

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Re: Radeon & GeForce texture filtering quality

Posted on 2019-09-23, 01:56

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by kolderman

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The 6000 series got some hardware changes. https://web.archive.org/web/20101028120959/http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/19844/2 Also I don't know anything about the GOG release of Republic Commando. But the CD release would work with DGVoodoo2 now. It's also possible the community came up with a …

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Re: Radeon & GeForce texture filtering quality

Posted on 2019-09-22, 18:58

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by kolderman

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I wonder if ATI made some driver improvements years after those articles were written. My next plan is to try Republic Commando on both and see if the dx8 support is still broken. Does the Gog release of that game make it use dx9 or newer or will it still have the problem? I am also running the d3d …

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Re: Radeon & GeForce texture filtering quality

Posted on 2019-09-22, 10:34

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by kolderman

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Found a gtx 560 at a local buy/sell shop. This will be my afternoon project. And here are the results. Using the latest drivers for the 8800 Ultra (2014 which also support the 560). AFx16, with and without AAx4. I am not convinced the GF is better. It seems to have a bit of aliasing around the …

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Re: What 9x Software is Essential

Posted on 2019-09-22, 09:07

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by kolderman

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

matze79 wrote: tuneup 97 What is it and why essential?

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