Re: Ensoniq Soundscape Elite recordings

Posted on 2010-10-12, 17:54

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Re: Dark Forces sounding nice. Just for a bit of fun, try listening to the intro tune by selecting AWE32 for the music! :lol: I made a recording of that years ago for here but I can't find the file anymore. The high brass notes in the AWE32 recording sound like someone is stepping on a rodent. :D …

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Re: Ensoniq Soundscape Elite recordings

Posted on 2010-10-12, 17:52

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Re: Dark Forces sounding nice. Just for a bit of fun, try listening to the intro tune by selecting AWE32 for the music! :lol: I made a recording of that years ago for here but I can't find the file anymore. I believe one fellow commented on the brass sounding like squeaking rodents. :D But to be …

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2010-10-12, 05:28

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Diamond Stealth II (Rendition V2100) = DOG :-) . In VGA, yes. Need VESA modes. Then it transforms into one speedy DOS card. There is a utility that Rendition released that remaps some non-VESA modes to VESA modes and you get a huge speed increase. The util is called "renutil" and you can find it in …

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Re: What monitor do you use?

Posted on 2010-10-12, 04:35

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ Video

A 24" widescreen that is 1920x1200 will give you a nice 1600x1200 4:3 that scales the other 4:3 resolutions well. It's the 1080p and 16:10 monitors (like that 22") that scale 4:3 like grabage because they have to interpolate the pixels with their neighbors and get some rounded approximation off a …

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Re: Ensoniq Soundscape Elite recordings

Posted on 2010-10-11, 20:24

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Guys, check out the 3DO Doom soundtrack. Forget these wavetable cards this stuff kicks ass. 😁 Just go a google search for "3do doom music". I think posting a link might be bad form here on the forum.

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Re: Ensoniq Soundscape Elite recordings

Posted on 2010-10-11, 18:01

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well your opinion is a bit of a contrast to what RG100 said above. ;) But I hear ya. The quality of these cards is all personal opinion and preference. I have a Roland SCD-15 around. It's ok but I think the Roland Sound Canvas stuff is overrated. I have played around with both the SCD-15 and …

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Re: No MIDI from Ensoniq Soundscape Elite in MS-DOS

Posted on 2010-10-11, 17:59

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by swaaye

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A nice setup!

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Re: What monitor do you use?

Posted on 2010-10-11, 04:01

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I have a Dell 2405FPW and a 2005FPW. Bought them way back in '05. I can't see the difference between the GPU doing scaling and the LCDs so I guess they're as good as it's gonna get. Great screens. A friend of mine bought a super cheapo 22" LCD that only does pixel stretch!! You get what you pay for …

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Re: Hanging note problem detected on Creative Soundblaster model CT1750!

Posted on 2010-10-10, 23:09

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ Sound

AWE64 Gold is pretty nice. The AWE32, SB16 and SB32s aren't so nice, no. :) You don't get 16-bit 44.1 kHz out of a SB16/AWE32 regardless of what the spec sheet says. It sounds too shitty thanks to the awful analog circuitry. This also impacts a DB's output. But having a real OPL3 around is great. …

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Re: Question about sound and it's effect on performance.

Posted on 2010-10-10, 22:08

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by swaaye

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SCUMMVM on Xbox has Fluidsynth built-in. I think that's what it uses... I tried an 8MB soundfont (Synergi 8MB) with it but it was not exactly sounding correct.... It would just gobble up more CPU cycles and RAM though. Does the NVAPU in Xbox have a MIDI synth in hardware? It's the same hardware as …

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Re: AGP Pro

Posted on 2010-10-10, 21:17

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't understand why such a card would be set up for AGP Pro like that. The whole point is to allow more power consumption. I can see a Radeon 9700 with one but a Geforce 2 MX?!!

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Re: Question about AWE32 SIMMs

Posted on 2010-10-10, 21:00

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So what did a 16MB 30-pin SIMM cost in 1994/5? 😁 😳 😳 😳 😁

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Ensoniq Soundscape Elite recordings

Posted on 2010-10-10, 20:55

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok this was an interesting little project. I threw together a DOS machine with my Ensoniq Soundscape Elite card. I recorded the machine playing the games by running the line out to my main computer's Audigy's line-in. Then I made videos in DOSBOX on my main computer and created a combination of the …

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Re: Doom Game Music - E1M1 to E1M5 - Roland SC-55mkII (Sound Canvas / General MIDI)

Posted on 2010-10-10, 20:49

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's an original Ensoniq Soundscape card. I have one too, this model was the one I used the most. This one appears to have been simplified a bit by removing the proprietary CDROM interfaces. All of these Ensoniq sound card models have unique patch sets and each has its strengths. Well, except for …

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Re: Doom Game Music - E1M1 to E1M5 - Roland SC-55mkII (Sound Canvas / General MIDI)

Posted on 2010-10-10, 04:22

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's pretty nice. It's not "clearly superior" or anything like that but as with all of these cards it's fun to compare and contrast because they all have strengths and weaknesses.

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2010-10-10, 03:45

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Yep, but not a 100% lefty I only use the mouse and play hockey as a left handed person...I'm doing other actions as I right handed person..guess I'm some sort of hybrid :D OMG another hybrid lefty!? Right here on VOGONS!? Left hand hockey, right handed mouse here! Left handed baseball, mixed up …

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Re: Doom Game Music - E1M1 to E1M5 - Roland SC-55mkII (Sound Canvas / General MIDI)

Posted on 2010-10-10, 03:36

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yuppers. I think I'll record it. It's a project and I need a project.

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Re: Doom Game Music - E1M1 to E1M5 - Roland SC-55mkII (Sound Canvas / General MIDI)

Posted on 2010-10-10, 03:03

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Very nice. Now I want to record what the Soundscape Elite sounds like for ya. 😁

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Re: Which is the best sbk GM soundfont available for AWE32/64?

Posted on 2010-10-10, 01:12

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

leileilol wrote: ff4sf2.sf2 * runs Hmmmmmmm........... 😁

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Re: Question about AWE32 SIMMs

Posted on 2010-10-10, 01:09

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It takes regular non-parity 30-pin SIMMs AFAIK. I don't think the speed rating matters. It will only report 28 MB of 32 MB though because that's the max it can address or some such.

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